Really?
Sorry to h ear that but glad it`s not just me.

Thanks for the advice, which I`ll follow next season.

At the end of last year I took the best runners from my three year old strawberry bed and gave them a lovely new well composted bed of their own. I was just going to dig up the old bed but my OH said, "Aw, give them another year." So I did. Now the new bed is giving the minimum of small, m...

I found this very interesting as I always have problems with crop rotation - mainly, I know, due to my lack of organisation skills - although I do try. I remember my Dad`s tiny back garden where he grew his little patch of new potatoes and runner beans. He had a permanent runner bean support where h...

How lovely! Typical Welsh weather.
Congratulations on your anniversary.

Right! To the barricades!
They shall not pass!

Nor me, now you come to think of it!

Oh thanks, OH! How kind

Welcome to the charges dear heart!! Do let us know how much they've screwed you? Will you? Luv, Tel. Mower still sitting in the shed waiting for me to have enough readies to take it to the servicing place. Not helped by my not having a car so having to scrounge a lift or get a taxi. I`ve strimmed t...

Ah! This could have solved a bit of a mystery. Our soft fruit bushes are situated where the hens free range and we often see them doing acrobatic pirouettes to snatch at the leaves. They look really funny. Perhaps they`re really targetting wee beasties on the bushes. (We never get any fruit on the l...

We have several beekeepers on our allotment site and the only problem we`ve found is when we get a swarm. This can seriously alarm anyone not familiar with bees and it`s no good saying, "They won`t hurt you. Swarming bees are very docile." when somebody is panicking with great clouds of be...

Thanks folks - I`ll get some next-size pots ready.

Any thoughts?

I`ve got my winter greens, kale and psb, in pots to go in after the broad beans are over. However, they`re doing very well and are about six inches tall while the broad beans are only just nearly ready for picking. It`ll be ages before the bed`s empty! What should I do? I`ve got an empty bed that la...

Had a quick scan of `New Posts' and thought I`d got a lovely message from you!

Then it`s just a problem with a stink!