Thanks Tigger

Thanks for all your suggestions and food for thought everyone. All problems are sumountable and I really do feel it's an enterprise worth persuing with young children.

In September I am planning to start a vegetable garden at my local junior school with the intention of getting pupils involved in growing and maintainance, recording their progress and, ultimately, consuming and selling their produce. I've got lots of ideas but just thought I'd find out if anyone kn...

oh dear, at the grand old age of 41 here are a couple of examples of my brain's latest inexplainable meanderings: 1. "Can you put the shoeshop back in the cupboard". 2. Opened the fridge to find my car keys alongside the cheese. As a student teacher I have caused much hilarity for getting ...

Dear me, if you are implying that I'm the sort of girl who can't wait to sample anything vaguely alcoholic then shame on you!

ahem, well, yes it did mature for a little while in my glass !! all gone now!

Delicious! - interesting delicate flavour and quite a fizz!

Well, I've always been the type to be easily distracted! I've been gathering my elderflower heads in order to make the usual 'champagnes' and cordials when I noticed that all my local elder bushes have wild rose growing next to them. I have decided to give the same treatment to the wild roses as I d...

Sounds interesting - I didn't know that Frank Sinatra had an allotment. Do you think he ever consulted Kitchen Garden?.... No, I suppose he just "DID IT MYYYY WAAYYYY!". So sorry, it's the heat! MSN is unchartered territory for me but I might just get around to venturing in - have fun chat...

Although I'm so glad to have this rain and be spared the endless trips to my patch with the watering can, I still can't help feeling grumpy about downside of the downpours which have lead me to ponder three headscratchers: (1) Why do weeds germinate far quicker than my veg seeds? (2) What was God's ...

Thanks Glory! so well timed as I've just come in from my plot where I've been pondering the best methods - I'll give it a look!

seeds planted and fingers crossed!

Camouflage gear is a must jopsy!! I shall also try bran flakes stuck in sideways to make a suitably spikey surface...Sorry, am being totally flipant here just to mask the disappointment of losing another courgette plant and catching the predatory slug in situ.

Thank you everyone; I will certainly experiment with various barriers around my peas and beans (and have planted more and closer together). My broad bean plants are surviving but almost every leaf has a series of bites around the edge; the culprit goes no further but systematically nibbles a round e...

Thanks Deb, I shall put anti slug/snail measures in place.