Interesting post about the height of kalettes, Westi. I also found in the past that the green ones always appeared to be stronger plants and more prolific than the purply red ones.

I really wanted to grow flower sprouts/kalettes but the are too tall of my intended structure, so I have now decided on dwarf kale and short calabrese with a few kohlrabi round the outside. 'Normal' kale would be taller than 1m, growing in the ground, I would think, elmigo.

Happy Birthday, Diane!

Primrose, OH, robo, Muddyboot68, Elmigo and all, all your kind thoughts are really appreciated. We are all very much buoyed by the positive attitude by my grandson himself who has always maintained that what will be will be and he is going to make the most of the time he has left. He does a regular ...

Thank you, Elmigo. His little lad, our great-grandson, received a bike with real pedals for Christmas, so at the moment their time is taken up teaching the youngster to pedal rather than 'running' with the bike.

Well, just to confound you, Geoff, my gardening vision for 2020 is a for a gentle year, nothing in excess, no late hard frosts, no droughts, no floods, no storms ...... For the world, I hope for reconciliations on all fronts, especially in the Middle East, and a soft, soft Brexit. And personally, I ...

Don't overdo it, OH! But you are man after my own heart: dig until you HAVE to stop ......

By the way, might it be time for 'Mid-winter Bits and Bobs'?

I am now in the process of planning which brassicas to grow for 2020. After the cabbage white onslaught last summer, I am contemplating growing them all under netting from seedling stage to harvesting (there is a short article about it in the current KG), but the max height will probably have to be ...

Happy Birthday, retropants!

Happy New Year to all! May all your wishes come true and your carrots grow downwards!

Good day here and got the manure spread on the vegetable patch, now covered with black plastic for the worms to work wonders ....

I stirred our three large compost bins today: one is almost ready for spreading (just a few bits of egg shell and thicker stems still showing), one is 'stewing' nicely and absolutely full of worms and the third is the 'live' one into which I sprinkled some Garotta and mixed some torn corrugated card...

We had DT Brown and Woolmans catalogues today, the same owners, me thinks.

All the best, Peter, and hope you'll soon be fully mobile!