Two reasons why I went for raised beds, no dig and ease of access and by growing in blocks broad casting the seed rather than in rows, I am using the space more efficiently. I bet if you worked out the percentage of lost space between your traditional rows, it's probably around 20 percent too.

Potted on some ridge cucumbers and butternut squashes from modules into bigger pots, getting low on multi purpose compost now, but most stuff will go into the greenhouse borders for their next move, so should be ok.

A few experiments going on in there, carrots and peas growing on the right, hoping for an earlier crop, the radish on the left seem to be all tops and no fruit, you can't win them all.

Things are slowly growing and with overnight temperatures rising I hope I can get some tender plants growing in here soon, saw our first House Martin flying over the garden, so I hope that is a good sign.

I've cut the grass today, but main gardening task at the moment is watering, at least things are growing, tatties just peeping through, so I've pulled more soil on them as there may be another frost tonight. Peas are also appearing outside along with some carrots and radishes. In the greenhouse ther...

I think I'd get more use from this on an allotment, do you have a shed? If so, fitted in there with a waste pipe out side it could be used to wash veg/cups/hands, you can even get eco washing stuff, you just take a bottle of water with you.

Afternoon all, we have cool and cloudy today and still very dry, no rain for weeks so the hose has been in use. The early sown carrots and peas in the greenhouse border are growing well, whether they will be ready before the close by Sweet Corn swamps them may be another story. Strawberries in the g...

I have some tender plants in my "halfway house" a plastic "blowaway " greenhouse inside the unheated greenhouse, they are surviving in there this far north just now.

This is an early start, just been pollinating strawberry flowers in the greenhouse with a small paintbrush.

As regards foods causing problems, I had a single large kidney stone lasered a few years ago and the list of food to minimise is surprisingly large! One favourite was cranberries or cranberry juice. I used when younger to consume a fair amount of milk, just cannot nowadays as it triggers my IBS. I ...

We still have snow on the lower hills, the suns been out but the wind is bitter, still very much early spring up here.

Morning Tigerburnie, I find it very interesting what you said about the Rhubarb and your arthritic joints. I have been suffering badly, on and off, with arthritic joints, and I wondered if certain foods could make it worse but, when I mentioned that to the Dr, he didn't think so...I wasn't convince...

I love rhubub used to make wine with it too, can't have it now as it plays havoc with the arthritic joints sadly.

Where roughly do you live Chris, could save on delivery charges.