@Colin2016 - how long does a full battery charge last? Roughly how many hours of pumping do you get from it?

I should have added that this type of thing is probably more relevant than ever as we move into a peat-free world as peat-free composts generally don't have the same water retention qualities of previous times and need to be kept constantly moist as they're much harder to get wet again.

I really must get out and tackle topping up my raised beds. I've had some bulk compost delivered but it's some distance between the compost and the beds with a muddy lake in between the two, not ideal for dragging a wheelbarrow through! I might enlist some help on that, though, as time is ticking wi...

Has anyone tried these? I'm having a look as although I can run a hose on a time out to my greenhouses, our water flow and pressure are so low, the water doesn't make it through the tubes to all of the outlets, only 50% at best. I can't get a mains power supply out the greenhouses due to distance. I...

My greenhouse sowings are coming along nicely, with plenty of brassicas and flowers. Some duds from old seed that I took a chance on, so I've already re-sown with newer seed. I suspect that seeds that languished in my greenhouse last year got too hot and have gone crispy, so I shall have a sort out ...

I've been out with the nematodes today. The blighters are having a nibble on my newly emerging asparagus, and that just won't do. I don't mind losing a bit of excess parsley, but I have limits to my mollusc feeding generosity. It has been a glorious day here in Deepest Darkest and the first of last ...

Anyone fancy a freshly opened but mostly unused packet of collard green seeds? See the post in 'Best Practices' first, though!

Oh blimey, thanks Westi! Forewarned is forearmed! In that case, I'm not sure that I will give the plot space to them. I prefer to lightly cook my greens and don't fancy anything that needs boiling to oblivion and back just to make it edible. There are so many delicious things to grow that I don't be...

Has anyone tried these? Apparently, they're very popular in the US and I've seen them mentioned in lots of cookery articles. They're not quite the same as kale or spring greens.
I saw some seeds for them, so bought a packet and have now sown some, so I can report back later in the year.

It's a squelch-athon in the bog that passes for our garden. We're on heavy clay and I can't see this much water draining properly much before mid-April. My kitchen garden is all raised beds, but the greenhouse borders are flooded as they're at regular ground level plus a few inches. Anyhow, I've got...

I have a border of early strawberries in my greenhouse and last year, the woodlice scoffed most of them. There were only enough left for us once they were in full production. I have strawberry beds outside too, but these weren't bothered by woodlice at all. Plenty of other pests, slugs, birds, husba...

Afternoon all, popping my head around the KG door to say hello. I tried posting a while back, but the /remlins seemed to be having a party on the forum and only gremlins were allowed, so they didn't let me in. I'm off for some quality time in the greenhouse this afternoon - I had a dumpy bag of comp...

I wouldn't dream of shouting at anyone for their choice of kitchen equipment, @stravaig! I don't have a vast number of kitchen gadgets.....well, maybe lots, but not vast! But my curiosity got the better of me and that was me down the rabbit hole. I fully appreciate the gas v. electric argument, too,...

I'm onto my second air fryer now. I used to have a single drawer one, you know, the ones that look a bit like the helmet that Darth Vader in Star Wars wore, but I was so smitten by them that I gave my old one to a friend and bought a double drawer one. The point of this random waffle is to say what ...

Thanks, Westi, that's just the sort of advice I was after. I had left a couple of skinny ones to go frondy, thinking I might be being kind to it, but I shall snip them off first thing in the morning. I'm still in my wooly jumpers with northerly breeze; bikinis are a distant memory for decades! I'm s...