Lovely Geoff!

I have one plant that's been in the ground for about 20 years. It comes up every year, but the shrubs around are now so big, I can't see it anymore!

should be a lot easier to pull them Westi, after all that rain.

I think it rained most of the night here, and it is now chucking it down after a brief respite. The Alemanchier tree outside my work window dumped 90% of its leaves over the weekend, so hopefully, it'll get a good drink now, and recover. I attempted to pre-soak the borders at home, as a lot of estab...

Lovely, lovely rain

I've got lettuce and dwarf beans to plant out later when I get home, so also pleased we have rain forecast. Just got to keep the fox off now..........

Hi OH, thankyou.

No, I haven't used any chicken pellets this year, as I now have my vermicompost, which I think is way better, everything that hasn't been vandalised is growing like triffids!

Spent all of yesterday setting up and planting out the tomato/cucumber house. Trimmed the bases off old pots to use as watering collars, made up strings with a lasso at one end to bury under each plant. Spent for ever planting, tying up, watering etc. Did it all properly and it looked amazing.This m...

Homemade pizzas for tea tonight

I planted mixed short rows of climbing beans (cobra) and sweetcorn (can’t remember) . Only the beans have emerged. I’ll have to see if GC has any sc plants to complete the block. Not much space and they are supposed to combine well together.

Looks like a bit cooler from tomorrow (2 days earlier than previously forecast) So I will attempt to get the tomatoes and cucumbers planted out, they are absolutely desperate! The worm castings from my wormery I've added to each planting has made a world of difference. Everything so far is growing h...

OH, I even had to take the tomatoes out of the greenhouse today, as they were wilting. I need to plant them out, but it’s too hot for that sort of nonsense. Cucumbers and other small plants are coming out of the gh each day until I can put them in their final positions. I need it to cool down a bit ...

I managed to get some more dark red bidens from the plant guy at Chesham local produce market yesterday. I was selling there too. It was scorching, I had a cold box not only for my lunch, but also for the hand creams, which I kept switching out the display ones so they didn’t melt in the heat.

I’ve got some dark red Bidens in a basket, the honey bees seem to love them. I’m going to see if they have any left at the GC to fill gaps in the sunny border.

They do indeed OH. My mum also gave up her plants/honesty box as last year someone took the lot.

Thankyou Westi, there’s now 2 locks on everything.

Well, I am now minus 1 bicycle, 1 strimmer (brand new) and £85 (for new locks) as a thieving scumbag got into my garden and removed said items from the shed. Spent Saturday installing new locks everywhere in the garden. I filed a police report, they actually sent a forensic team over last night (scu...