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I was going to wait till my friend dug up a root of Trailing Rosemary .. but I am terribly impatient when it comes to plants, so I ordered a small pot from Amazon Spain and it arrived today ...

I had a replacement chiropodist today; a woman of few words, but she did say I have 'good feet' - twice! I think that was the 'sole' topic of our conversations. I am not normally lost for words. Then we went to Go outdoors where we spent... absolutely nothing. We came home via the SM, where we...

I quite like the Waitrose 72% dark, though you definitely can taste the cocoa powder content.Cadbury's quality has really deteriorated since they swapped out some of the cocoa mass for an E number ingredient with a long name I forget how to spell.

Nice size, parsnip digging was always in my memory as the ground being frozen solid.

The rain last night washed away the surface snow , but it fell to -2 overnight. In spite of making the giddy height of +4 today the ground is still like a rock to about 3inches down. Back down to 2.5 now outside.

I use Clover, as @hailbopp suggested. It has peat in it. At the moment it's sold by 2 garden centres fairly local to me in South Norfolk. I'm happy with it.

I've just found a bar of dark chocolate in the freezer.

Which I just did for a few hours. 1c forecast over night again. But it’s out of its fleece coat for the first time after 12 days!

I used the snow to see what had been where in the garden. I could see plenty of cat prints but not much else. I then went down the allotment and saw what I think are rat trails and more importantly I could trace where the muntjac were getting in. We have a completely open allotment site (I'm...

If my chillies get a bit leggy I just plant them deeper when they are potted on. They root readily from any buried leaf nodes and I don't remember ever losing one from this method. I don't use grow lights or a heat pad so I won't be starting them till next month.