Wish List for Christmas.

[Nature's Babe]

Just wondering what gardening gifts you are all secretly hoping Santa might pop in your stocking at Christmas. You never know Santa might take a peek and surprise you. ! Modern take on letter up the chimney !

[oldherbaceous]

I would like some of that soft twisty tying wire stuff, but since i'm a bad boy, i will have to buy it myself.

[The Mouse]

Mmm, well, if its got to be garden-related I would like a strong, hunky (and amazingly good-looking, obviously!) gardener to help me in the garden, on the allotment, in the greenhouse - wherever!!!
And if he could also turn his hand to cooking... and housework... I wonder, does Santa do combo wishes?

And if that's not possible, a brand new garden fork would be nice, to replace the lovely one I managed to break while trying to "coax" a tree out of the earth!

[Nature's Babe]

OH, I'm smiling here, a lot of ladies like the naughty boys, they have a certain charm
Mouse, I like that idea, and that is exactly how I broke my fork too !
I'm hoping Santa might manage a KG calender so i can remind myself wot needs doing wen. If he feels really flush perhaps a drier thingy so I can make raisins from surplus grapes and sundried toms etc. My attempt at oven drying was a disaster, ended on the compost!

[alan refail]

I would like a strong, hunky (and amazingly good-looking, obviously!) gardener to help me in the garden, on the allotment, in the greenhouse

Christmas comes early for naughty mouse

[glallotments]

Very Desperate Housewives!

[Primrose]

A trailer load of well rotted manure would make me very happy.

The offer of somebody to shovel it into a wheelbarrow and wheel it down to the vegetable plot would make me deliriously happy.

You can forget the glamorous underwear, the cashmere, the smelly perfume, and the jewellery. I'm pretty low maintenance in that respect.

(On second thoughts, after shovelling out all that manure, some smelly perfume might come in useful).

Natures Babe - yes, perhaps a dehydrator might be a good thing to add to my wish list but then I'd have to wish for a bigger kitchen to store all my gadgets in. And my oven dried grapes made fantastic raisins. The only problem was that at least 60% of them were full of pips, so useless for any kind of baking. I did nibble a few but most of them ended up on the bird table !

[oldherbaceous]

Well i was going to have a second Christmas wish, but Christmas seems to have come early, welcome back dear fellow.

[The Mouse]

Christmas comes early for naughty mouse

Phwoooorh!
Thanks, Alan.

[Nature's Babe]

Primrose, well think big Santa might have a nice kitchen extension up his sleeve, and a dehydrator. I think it might have worked with a gas oven on low but mines a fan electric, I had it on the lowest setting for ages and they just plumped up and started to cook not shrink ! lol
Welcome back Alan......nice eye candy....... but you didn't tell us what was on your wish list.

[lizzie]

James Martin naked apart from a big red bow would do very nicely please, along with a large amount of chocolate.

If that isn't going to happen (and I still live in hope) then the new Jamie Oliver book and money towards a new sewing machine would be fab or vouchers for a garden centre too.

[peter]

Professor Sprout to come up with a spell that gets rid of Bindweed.

[Primrose]

And while you're at it, please ask Professor Sprout to include in his spell a potion for killing off Oxalis and Alkanet.

[Monika]

Can I add creeping buttercup to that, please? Our lovely wild garden patch with lots of nectar-rich flowers is being overtaken by creeping buttercup. Perhaps Santa's potion could get rid of it without killing anything else.

Seriously, a new cedarwood greenhouse would be lovely.

[Nature's Babe]

Perhaps Mouse will loan us her hunk to do some serious weeding,
though I could think of a better use of his time