Just been up the plot tonight, weeded my strawberry patch, nearly finished filling the runner bean trench with lots of quality compost from my various bins. I also put some pea plants in the ground, in peat pots (Lincoln) At about 8.30 the sun was setting and soft mist rolled over the neighbouring f...

I had to resort to pellets in the home garden tonight, just a few on the greenhouse floor, we don't grow veg at home so it's not too bad, and I use a pellet that is not harmful to birds, after losing a tray of petunia seedlings, they started on my marigolds, the little g'ts.

Sounds fantastic to me!! Shame it is going to go, only hope that the new owners enjoy it and respect it eh?

Can you build one at home as a memorial kind of thing??

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I got that book too and there is a similar one on alotments called allotment folk it is also in the same format, I have three sheds at home and one on the plot, which has a primus stove and a couple of deckchairs with the obligatory lulu bucket, our parish council does not care what we put up, howev...

Most folk don't enjoy it the way we 'special ones' do, but my wife praises me up when she is serving visting family members with six choices of cheap tasty organic veg, so you will get your praise in the eating stage no doubt. I still scrape back my spuds to see what they are up too and enjoy the sp...

I did not have a cold frame until this year and had a tiny greenhouse. So you can make do if u put your seedlings outside, choose a sheltered corner, you can use anything to cover them up a night, sheets of crumpled newspaper, fleece, old lace curtains. This will all keep jack frost off, remember th...

How big are they, and how overcrowded is the tray, the trick is to lift them out of the compost (I use the pointed end of a plastic plant label) before their routes get entangled, and into a small pot, a seed module or even better a peat pot so you can put em straight into the ground. Alternatively ...

Is it really irritating, want me to change it, would hate to offend......any suggestions....??

Agree to all of the above, b&q sell lil packs of glass clips and the bolts that hold the frame together, taking the frame apart is harder than taking the glass out and putting it back in, having just moved a second hand 10x6.

I've just had a coffe and some of my green & black's easter egg, do you think I am going hyper??

The 'today I have been mostly...' thread was great last weekend so I thought that I would start one again.........So today (or this weekend, I have planted my second early spuds (charlotte mmmm lovely). Filled my bean trench full of home made compost, even lovelier......... Sewed cauli seeds in the ...

I can see some kinds of beans in pods tonight ---- so guess I have lost it and I am a mental health worker!!!

Horse Bran which is about seven quid for a big bag is great, as is builders grit (sharp sand) very non hazardous and good for breaking up clay soil. Both need to spread around the plants - but don't leave a gap or it is like leaving the garden gate open.

Hi Oldherb In the late 70's / early 80's I lived in a house in Hampshire which was a terrace of eight, we had the outside loo buildings stil in tact, we used them as tool sheds, down the bottom of the garden, there was a fantastic rhubarb patch which I am told was on the sight of the 'trench' althou...

Same with cabbages, plant em a bit close together they will grow a bit quicker to compete for the space, so you can pull em earlier two or three at a time, amd currently adopting this process with leeks too.

I wish they had this website when I Was a newbie, it is veritable fount of knowledge