Well I do sometimes agree with your statement Peter, but I am fairly PC literate and have good KB Skills, but am nroe sure how much of my laptop's senstive mouse pad is to blame. Btu the problem happened several times before I posted the problem.

Ah right I was a submariner from 75 to 2001, served in Faslane, Helensburgh for many a happy stint, love the West Highlands and the walking, great views fantastic beer and food, going back for a hol soon I hope.

Must be alright then Arthur cos they are scottish tatties, what part of haggis-land de ye cum fe?

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Hi Folks Have planted my first earlies this week, and have filled the trench with horse manure, which has been in bags for a couple of months, is it too fresh? I could get the spuds out and dig the manure in with some more soil, it was beginning to rot but not quite there yet, any ideas? Compo (slig...

Yeah thats right Tigger they just end up being a smiley in a window on their own and the text i have typed disappears.

How come when i try and add a smiley from the view moe emoticons link i lose all my text?? grrrrrr

I haven't grown sprouts before and after a bumper crop the plants have started to bolt.but lower down the sprouts are still coming can i chop the tops off and will the sprouts below mature anymore? Thanks PS the best of two varieties was peer gynt which did not succumb to the white fly that the othe...

Mine were planted in autumn as garden centre bare root plants, and are flowering like mad, cant keep up with the picking so am going to have to freeze it or give it away

Just replying to the 'guest' who did not identify himself, I am a bit fed up with the poo that has been flung at me since I started the thread in the first place, I am not obliged to add to the debate but have followed it with interest and added items when I have been asked what my view actually is,...

I brought a little one from Norfolk Greenhouses and it took me hours to build it is now screwed to the side of the shed and works quite well, however, i was recently given a glass 10x6 and moved int all from a neighbours garden to my plot in a day, the base was made out of 4x2 anchored in the ground...

It Was dry and windy here with occasional shower and warm sunhine if u got in the shelter. MAnaged to cut the grass at home and put some lettuce in the ground in my cold frame, I got the week off and hope to spend a couple of whole days in my lotment, great shed, choccie biscuits and a gaz stove. I ...

I got mine in a raised bed and planteed em last sunday, one or two of em have lil green tips on top already, the old timers on my plot say they like a little bit of frost once they have started to shoot.

Definitely mice byt the sound of it they love the broad beans, the one inch holes are the clue, the only answer is to pre sow in pots I use peat pots in my lotment greenhouse, and when I sowed mine last year I lost a lot to mice, the oldtimers on my patch told me 'flood sow' in two inch deep drils w...

Don't know about the barrel specifically but i tried last year to build up my spuds in a raised bed whereby i incresed its height and earthed up every six inches of growth to twenty four inches, it was no better than the yield from the spuds I had put in the ground. If you really have no ground I gu...