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Died 2009.

Indeed, I only make grooves and holes where the plants go with some compost. Why put good compost where there will be no plants. I have just made some planters so will need to fill these up. I did collect loads of leaves from the road earlier and have added them to the winters compost pile ready...

Then I'll spread peanut butter on the side verges. That'll stop em!

The BBC Good Food website's list includes hot cross buns with chocolate chips, triple chocolate, cranberry and orange, lemon and marzipan, lemon and blueberry, vegab option, cheese, halloumi and sesame and then also a bacon butty hot cross bun and bun and butter pudding. Cup cakes too....

When I used to volunteer at the botanic garden, plants from abroad just got put into the appropriate greenhouse - cool, intermediate or warm. Those black tent structures are, I'm sure, structured to avoid people seeing what is being grown under very intensive conditions

Thanks for the donations - message from Webmaster. The tech guy shall be in discussion with Admin over what needs doing, what can be done and what may not be possible if the updates for some things are no longer available. I won't be involved in the tech side as I know nothing about...

@Allex50 concerned about PUFAs: this might be worth a listen. BBC Radio 4 - Toxic!, A Recipe for Disaster?

Thanks all for your replies. I’ll wait & see what happens in the spring.

I had a look in the perspex shelters by my old garage yesterday. I was thinking of taking some plants that have been overwintering in the house, back to the shelters but there's no room at the moment, there's a lot of tidying to do first. I was happy to see my Anisodontea and Pandorea have...