Prices?
Thought we would get an ice-cream and have a stroll by river in lovely weather.

£3.25 for cone with one dollop of ice cream not even a flake!

Next time stroll minus ice cream.

Thanks for the information Snooky, just placed order and got free delivery for signing up to their newsletter.

Potato are 2kg bags.
Other store prices 1kg £2.99, 2kg £4.99 & £5.49.
Suspect trade is not good as not as many on display as in the past.

Post & packaging is a killer for spuds.

Was looking for sweet potato slips and got p&p cost of £19.

The automatic North facing vent in greenhouse was wide open yesterday.
Picked up two bags of Taylor spuds for same price as last year £9.

Good to see you back Stravaig, assumed you had got carried away on burns night.

I think you will be in for a very pleasant surprise for the cataracts, mine were done at a private health centre ( NHS funded) super efficient. The second eye was done without the assessment/checks that were done for first eye approx 2 months later.

If your experience is like mine then I think you will enjoy it, have you got the 18v or 36v version?

Einhell are making a lot of good garden equipment which makes it possible to use on the plot, used to be a Bosch but now gone over to Einhell.

Has anyone any experience of using thermal labels on allotment?

Wonder how long before they are unreadable?

A Merry Christmas to you all on this windy day....as the song goes "Baby, it's cold outside".

Thanks for the tip on "Envii Active Earth" fortunately I know the worms are there as have lots of mole activity.

Potato bed 12ft x 30ft with 2ton well rotted horse manure spread on top 4/6 inch thick some lumps. This is on sandy soil about 1 mile from North Norfolk coast. Been uncovered 5 weeks whilst it rained, now covered up with thick old lino type flooring. My thinking is that with the cover will help attr...

Fortunately not many adverts for me here or elsewhere probably because I use duckduckgo with all the protections on.

Can prevent me getting past some paywalls sometimes.

Out with the dog and a solitary goose was flying west to east 5 mins later the bulk of them were flying in opposite direction east to west.

Wonder if the solitary goose thought "I just arrived a everyone decides to clear off for breakfast."

Don't Einhell have 2 year guarantee? I use einhell shredder, strimmer, edger and pruning shears on the plot and lawnmower at home. Having a pair of 4amp & 5.2 amp batteries is the key to getting best use out of the tools especially on the plot where there is no mains power. They are my preferred...

I use vermiculite mainly because of price as found I could get 100l for under £20 where as perlite was over £20.

The first bag I brought was for raised beds when following the square foot gardening, now use it for mixing with homemade compost for seeds and potting on.