They've nested in the ivy growing up our bathroom wall. The babies stay quiet when we are passing Fascinating! I should point out that we have a downstairs bathroom I'm only assuming it's wren babies that I can hear calling when I'm the other end of the garden or walking back up towards the back do...

I think we may have young in the wrens nest because the parents are zipping in and out all day. They've nested in the ivy growing up our bathroom wall. The babies stay quiet when we are passing but I keep hearing raucous calls whenever I'm down the bottom of the garden, coming from the top end. For ...

It's a real pain and quite time consuming. I need a Gardening Au Pair Have come to the conclusion that Gardening and Holidays are incompatible ! Lol, I know what you mean. It's finding someone you trust with your plants. I hear horror stories about people coming back to find that their plants have ...

Where did you get your compost from Primrose? Was this newly purchased this season or was it a bag left over from last season? Is it seed compost of AP compost? And if you did buy it fresh this year, was it new in stock or has it been stored (maybe outside) by your supplier? What I am trying to get ...

Don't forget to leave a couple of the plants to give you seed. I don't leave it till the end to mature pods as wet weather means they don't mature and dry properly. I allocate a couple of plants on the end of a row by tying a label or coloured string to them to remind myself not to pick them! MW Th...

alan refail wrote:re Cherokee Trail of Tears: they are a very tasty and tender bean when young, but I have found they go stringy very quickly.

Thanks Alan, I'll bear that in mind when the pods start to form.

VPM
x

Wicky wrote:ooh VPM Trail of Tears was on my list of "Stuff to Buy" you'll definately have to let us know how they are!

I surely will

VPM
x

In my opinion, Runners are definitely more hardy than the french beans but I wouldn't say there was much in it as neither like frosts BTW I'm growing Runner Bean Czar for the first time this year and Blue Lake Climbing Bean, as well as Cherokee Trail of Tears Pole Bean. Czar and Trail of Tears were ...

Have 2 lots of the schools' netting soaking in Persil in the bath, after which time I'll be pegging them out onto the law to scrub with the brush, rinse and then dry on my whirly gig dryer Then tomorrow I can sow carrots, parsnips and beetroot and use nice clean(ish) netting to protect them with It ...

They can be slow to germinate. Lol, that has to be the understatement of the year I am trying my hardest NOT to submit to the temptation to sow more parsnip seeds because I know that the moment I do the first lot will start to show themselves and I'll have too many in the bed and have to thin out w...

Hi Primrose, My runners are currently approaching 1m in height and the climbing beans are at about half that but I wont be planting them out anytime soon. May 11th and 12th, 2010, we had severe frosts both nights and I lost around 75% of everything I had planted out at that time and so now I wait a ...

Can't stand Rosemary & Thyme (telly prog that is!) for the same reason. MW We love it for the simple reason that it is easy watching on a Sunday afternoon, even if it is a completely unrealistic representation of gardens and gardeners But then that's the whole point of programs like this. It's ...

I spotted a wren flying into the ivy growing up the wall of the extension at the back of the house today and it had nesting material in its' beak

VPM
x

Well it shouldn't come as a surprise to anyone. An increased population together with a decrease in land available to grow food due, in no small part to continued development of arable land and selling of garden space to make a quick buck, could only ever lead down one road and it's finally dawning ...

And Top Gear is the BBC's most widely sold program precisely because of the idiotic antics of its opinionated presenters. A re-vamp will most likely kill it. And this is a bad thing because ......... To be fair I do like Carol (GW not TG ) and I like Captain Slow (TG not GW ), it's the rest of them...