It's the first nice day all week here, and I cant go up the allotment because a) my car is still at the garage
b) my friend is coming for lunch
c) I cant find the packet of garlic I bought to plant

Catherine wrote: It always drives me mad that when we go away to holiday cottages there is never a sharp knife.

Yes, and that the drinking glasses are never big enough. When I have a cold drink I want a pint!

I certainly appreciate a nice sharp knife. What's the point of a blunt one?

All looking rather fantastic Piglet, well done

Wow, you lucky thing! I'd love to see that.

I did see something unusual today though - a parrot. Little green jobbie with red on its head and round it's eyes, hiding in the long grass at the side of my lottie. I wasn't brave enough to try and catch it

Well this is only my first year growing veggies, so everything that actually grew impressed me I'm easily impressed. I had Dwarf French bean Tendergreen - lived up to its name, really tender and pretty tasty. And I liked the pretty lilac flowers. Garlic was Cristo - very very pungent! but the cloves...

I don't see why not Primrose, it seems to work for onions.

I'm off to plant some Thermidrome later on today, but I've got a bed all ready for them luckily.

Yes! Usually I love Autumn - it really gives me a sense of the wheel of the year turning, but this year I'm a bit Meh about it all, don't know why. So I really feel like hiding away and not coming out till May next year! But I have got a new allotment plot so I've lots and lots of digging to do befo...

Ricard with an H wrote:99p for a bag of onion sets, how many in the bag ?

About 30 I think. More than enough for me anyway

retropants wrote: Does anyone have any recommendations for a good green bush bean variety that I could try as the yellow ones, although pretty, prolific and have good longevity, they look so insipid on the plate

I grew Tendergreen and thought they tasted great. Very pretty lilac flowers too.

And also - I still have 1/2 a bag of the sets left - does anyone think it's worth using these again or will they have lost their magic?

I'd never grown onions before this year; I had no idea what I was up to I had a bag of Sturon onion sets out of the 99p shop and didn't really expect much. I started them off in cells in March & planted them out in the middle of the allotment at the end of April. I have to say, for a first effor...

yes, the horrid little blighters are in my plums too - don't know the variety as it's an inherited tree, but I think it's a Victoria.

What did you do with the Khol Rabi?

Mine too! They were also covered in wee black beetles as well - I've desperately been trying to post a picture I took and can't figure out how to do it now that Photobucket have taken off their handy "post to forum" button