Recent heavy winds have dried out our lawns enough to permit a cut. Shockedat how much moss was lurking on the surface but should provide plenty of good nesting material for all the bids in the area !

Have a good day Westi although the weather forecast unfortunately doesn,t predict the sun shining on the righteous! But I guess by this stage yu have become used to February weather birthdays in England!

Probably something like my compost heap!

ROBO, the same thought about thorder of camera use probably ccured to some of the rest of us too! The two procedures may be in different rooms by different clinicians. I,m a little surprised, that if the issue of anaemia had entered your consultant,s mind he hadn,t mentioned it in the follow up lett...

Myrkk. I don't think you should berate yourself too much for a ooor result with tomatoes. After all, you,re not exactly in the best and warmest location in the UK for growing them! Don't know if you,re growing them in a greenhouse or outdoors. If outdoors, have you tried the tumbling bush varieties ...

I suspect Geoff is right. Have never used this for anything. A few chicken manure pellets or blood fish and bone have always worked for me if I felt extra nutrients were needed. Buying all this stuff obviously adds to the cost of growing these products and I suspect it,s easy to be taken in and pers...

Best of luck, Guess the winters wll be rather more chilly up there. Thought you had decided finally to settle down in your own house - obviously the wanderlust is still beckoning.

Crikey Robo. That must have been a shock. Hopefully they haven't mixed you up with another patient of the same name in the same hospital actually happened to a friend of ours a few years ago. Anyway good luck for next week if it,a really is for you. I suppose you have to be grateful that you,re at l...

Frogspawn.

Anybody got any yeti.?
I can't get easily get out into the garden to check now but we've had none in our tiny pond for two Springs. Can,t help wondering if the reluctant grassing over of our vegetable patch has some connection here?

Geoff - what an unbelievably stressful time you've both had! Troubles never come-singly do they and the older we become the less resilient we often are. Good news on your wife's diagnose. Wishing you both good health and better luck in the times ahead.

An anybody explain why this happens My husband bought me several bunches of daffodils in tight buds earlier in the week . They were all in full bloom the following day in all their glory and then all dead already with browning flowers by the following day.. Normally daffodils have several days of fl...

Done a quick Google. Was interested in one post on a forum whixh said a gardener had planted hundreds of snowdrop bulbs in an area but after planting a laurel hhedge close by, most of the snowdrops had died. There may have been other reasons for this of course but it does wave a potential red flag i...

Interesting and valid question given the fact that laurel hedges grow quickly and need to be pruned regularly to prevent them becoming unbearably thick and high. I will go away and Google the issue pending an expert reply.

Well Westi, once a gardener, always a gardener,. Even if you can't physically do it any longer the interest is still there. And thankfully my other half has gown so used to having fresh veg from the garden for 50 years that he's prepared still to grow few items under my supervision! And he,s learnin...

Where re you living? Is this a Swiss cheese plant whixh in the UK is kept indoors all year round because it wouldn't survive our winter climate. Perhaps you!re living in sunnier climes? Sound as if it,s come to the end of its natural life though and possibly too late to rescue. Sounds as if the whit...