Sorry Peter thats all too clever for an old country boy like me.

And does the raised bed have to have something to contain the soil, to be classed as a raised bed.
If not my first allotment that i got a lot of years ago is now nearly a foot higher than the surround ground, with the vast amounts of manure that have been incorporated over the years.

Chris would you say it's changing for the better or for the worse or just changing in general.

Well done Clive, that was really starting to bug me.
And as for those rustic bricks, your fingers certainly used to know it when you had layed a thousand of them in a day.
I like the new avator Clive, is that you in the front

Dear Jopsy sounds like it should be new house new job to me.

Well i hope they soon go and buy themselves a decent fork and spade.

Dear Alison, it certainly doesn't look like Jenny's plant by your pictue, but i don't think it's a Tradescantia either.
The mystery deepens.

Dear Jenny, i was only thinking about a closer photo of the plant, honest,

Jenny, you could also try pinning a couple of the growing tips down onto a pot of compost, you may find they will root quite readily.

Dear Sally, i did think of Persicaria Campanulata, but i didn't think the flowers looked quite bell shaped enough in the photo.
But having a closer look i think you are right.
Dear Jenny, could you get down on your hands and knees and check for us.

I do enjoy these guess the plant quizzes.

As they now say you get a bigger crop from not chitting main crop potatoes is anyone going to try it.
Or has anyone already tried it, and can agree you do get a bigger crop.

I've got my first earlies chitting away nicely.

Dear Johnboy, you've only got about another four months to wait.

Dear Jenny, This one has got me beat, i was thinking down the lines of Houttuynia and then Polygonum/Persicaria, but i'm sure it's not these, will have to leave it to a proper plants person.

Hello Gardenboy, and welcome, you will have to wait until Clive see's this, for your answer, but i thought i would just say hello anyway.
You shouln't have to wait to long for an answer.

Good afternoon Rat, and a very warm welcome to the forum.
And may i just say what a very useful reply to this topic.
Hope you enjoy yourself on the forum, and no more hiding in the shadows please.
Please feel free to join in any of the nonsense, sorry i mean topic's.

Dear Cherrycoop, sorry i can't help, but you sound a bit like me, all these things are simple when you get to them, but the hard bit is trying to find them in the first place.

Dear Chantal, i don't suppose it was quite the same being given a bunch of stalks, no wonder you dumped him.