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@michael Hewitt when one of our aeoniums flowered we looked it up and we were told that the plant would die. However we allowed it to flower for some weeks and then cut of the flower spike just below the lowest flowers. The plant didn't die and from the cut branch new growth took place. The same...

As I mentioned earlier @Busy-Lizzie, I suspect it is just the upgrading of the server and software that is causing the slow speed when posting and nothing to do with our broadband speeds. I like going to SM but also use delivery services when I want to buy bigger, heavier items like Cricket's...

Things seem early to me this year. Broad beans are pretty hardy and once hardened off should be fine.

We are in a very bizarre world where Russia bomb their own pipeline in the Ukraine, which supplies oil to Hungary and slovakia, who get angry about the reduction of their supplies and hold the eu to ransom over the agreed funding to Ukraine. Now it seems the eu have agreed to pay for repairs to...

Pictures not suitable for faint hearted potato growers. Potato Diseases

Frost here this morning, now 7 degrees and looks like a nice sunny day with barely a breath of wind.

For years I always used Robinsons Mammoth, then I used some seed I got free with a magazine(Red Baron) which we liked, I think next year I will go back to the Mammoth seed.

These plugs arrived a few days ago, very healthy. The other cells will get tomatoes

I have two 6x8 greenhouses, a few too many sown as always, but better too many than too few

Thanks @AnniD I enjoyed watching last week's episode, and watched in fact twice.

Guillemots on the cliff ledge and below, Durlston Castle cliffs.