We have had no rain for a while, had to fill up the water butts with the hose pipe

Everything's growing nicely with this warmer weather, over night temps now 10 degrees every night and I'm having to take the side shoots off the tommies already.

French Strawberries are very tasty.

When this first came to my attention the news was on and Nicola Sturgeon came on, I had to do a double take for a minute there.

Pa Snip wrote:Well that's Brussels for you, bureaucracy Sprouting at its most infuriating.

Brussels sprouting eh...…………..

The greenhouse is packed, some stuff will be going outside when all danger of frost has gone.


There's a lot of canes in there this year!!

I have mine covered in upvc so no maintenance and no birds digging for grubs etc, looks ok too if you don't mind white.

Last year they were around the size of a grape fruit, not massive, but enough for the two of us for a meal, very tasty and I hate cauliflower!!

I am still getting temps down to 5 degrees at night and 25 in the day, things are ok just now, but it can't help with such temperature swings.

Can I join? I have an enlarged prostate been taking tablets for years

Geoff wrote:The larval stage of Solomon’s seal sawfly can completely defoliate Polygonatum species and hybrids in early summer. Horrible little critters.

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That'll be them then, I do go around squashing them, but they strip the plants in no time.

100 percent germination, we will have to see if the crops any good later, though it's a good start.

Glorious sunshine, thought I'd get the camera out BM1K7056.JPG Solomons Seal looks nice when first out, it get eaten by grey caterpillars of what I do not know. BM1K7051.JPG 100 percent growth on the tatties. BM1K7053.JPG Looks like a bumper crop of guzzgogs if they don't get the mildew they got las...

To answer question one, I would cut the grass and leave it to compost where it is. 2 I have used timber for my raised beds, my Dad and my uncle were both very good growers and they didn't use timbers, personal choice I think. DSC02411.JPG This is one of 3 three I built when I retired, the idea is to...

Hi, are you changing the water? I wouldn't but leave it to settle and age, should be ok to plant it if the water is not full of nasties like fluoride and chlorine and the rest of the chemicals the water authorities seem to think we need.

When I went to collect my last lot, the guy was all excited, "there's some new stuff over there, why do you take the older stuff at the back?" I explained that's the whole point of composting, it was full of worms too.