I've re- roofed our summer house over the past two days, then trimmed the privet and watered the raised beds, greenhouse is now getting fuller with pots coming from the conservatory ready for planting in the borders, Tomatoes, Cucumbers and Butternut Squash are all acclimatizing now

The dead sheep under the grape vine is another that I have not bothered with

Wow, wish I had the room and the climate for those, if only for the flowers, they look a lot like the Epiphytes I grow, only I don't get any fruit

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Looks a lot like Oil Seed Rape to me

I also have a fair collection of gardening books(and fishing, rugby make your own wine etc., etc.), but I often only use a couple regularly, any of the late Geoff Hamilton's books and The Vegetable Expert by Dr D G Hessayon, get me out of most predicaments when I'm not sure.

Could cause disease when rotting and might encourage rats, never heard of it and I wouldn't try it either.

Sun bathing by tigerburnie, on Flickr

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We are lucky up here that the farming is mostly less intensive, so we still have good numbers of field birds including Corn Buntings, Yellowhammers, Linnets and Skylarks, I can hear Skylarks in my garden when the village is quiet and the kids are not in the play ground.

I grow different varieties of Strawberries for a variation in cropping time and flavor, some French perpetual ones in pots in the greenhouse for early and late crops and some outside for the bulk of summer, including some alpine ones which I can highly recommend.

I think it's fair to say most bags of compost sold these days are rubbish, or at least 50% seems to be bits of twigs and other uncomposted rubbish.

I usually get at least one winter followed by a summer from the same pansies, just keep dead heading and spread the seeds round the garden for free.

Razorbill by tigerburnie, on Flickr

I had a short trip to the local sea bird nesting colony on the cliffs, a bit early yet and there was no sign of the Puffins yet.
Kittiwakes by tigerburnie, on Flickr