I have a border of early strawberries in my greenhouse and last year, the woodlice scoffed most of them. There were only enough left for us once they were in full production. I have strawberry beds outside too, but these weren't bothered by woodlice at all. Plenty of other pests, slugs, birds, husba...

Afternoon all, popping my head around the KG door to say hello. I tried posting a while back, but the /remlins seemed to be having a party on the forum and only gremlins were allowed, so they didn't let me in. I'm off for some quality time in the greenhouse this afternoon - I had a dumpy bag of comp...

I wouldn't dream of shouting at anyone for their choice of kitchen equipment, @stravaig! I don't have a vast number of kitchen gadgets.....well, maybe lots, but not vast! But my curiosity got the better of me and that was me down the rabbit hole. I fully appreciate the gas v. electric argument, too,...

I'm onto my second air fryer now. I used to have a single drawer one, you know, the ones that look a bit like the helmet that Darth Vader in Star Wars wore, but I was so smitten by them that I gave my old one to a friend and bought a double drawer one. The point of this random waffle is to say what ...

Thanks, Westi, that's just the sort of advice I was after. I had left a couple of skinny ones to go frondy, thinking I might be being kind to it, but I shall snip them off first thing in the morning. I'm still in my wooly jumpers with northerly breeze; bikinis are a distant memory for decades! I'm s...

This is year 3 for my asparagus bed and it's been cropping heavily for about 2 or 3 weeks now and I've been harvesting the spears for the first time. The first flush seems to be coming to an end. Should I stop cutting the spears now, or can I have more once another flush comes along? The bed has bee...

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Hello Westi, I'm a bit late to this, but it does look like a nasty infestation of box moth. We had an awful lot of this come in a couple of summers ago and it's a familiar pest. It's a nasty thing but with diligence, and the right treatment, you can get rid of it. We used xentari. It's not licenced ...

Evening, all, waving from deepest darkest Dorset after one of my shamefully prolonged absences. I've just been having a catch up on posts and see that everyone else seems to be having what is, at best, a mediocre season. Lots of things in my kitchen garden are struggling, except for the snails and s...

I've been fleecing up in my cold greenhouses despite what the weather forecast says - it's been at least 1.5 below the forecast temperature quite regularly here over the last few nights and so they've been frosty ones. One pot of early spuds in the greenhouse got its leaves nipped by frost when I mi...

Geoff wrote:Bit of light reading viewtopic.php?f=4&t=9517&hilit=tomato+graft

Thanks for the link, Geoff, it's very informative. And I now want to graft an aubergine as well as my tomatoes!

I'll be happy to graft one! I found my unused seeds and had completely forgotten that in anticipation of failure, I still had 2 rootstock seedlings untouched. They're a weedy looking pair so I shall leave them to fatten up for a while and use them once they're a bit sturdier. The experiment continues!

Colin2016 wrote:"Cut some more PSB today - such lovely stuff. Having it with pasta and ragu sauce for tonight's dinner."

Sounds very tasty to me, going to do mine with lots of olive oil, leeks & pasta.

Yum! Just as tasty!

Yup, still breezy now, Westi, although it's supposed to be calming down in the next couple of hours - hope everything has stayed put on your allotment. I can't pot on any more tomatoes, as I've run out of pots. Tsk. I'm going to chance some toms in the unheated greenhouse, but I may well need to get...

Thanks for the encouragement, chaps, I shall sow the rest of my rootstock seeds today. It was always intended to be an experiment and something to learn from, so I'm not daunted by first time failure. And I really do have so very many tomato plants! Potted on another load today - my sister in law as...