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Sunflower seeds make quite nice microgreens, I used ones for birdseed, much cheaper! Batchelors dried peas are the best for pea shoots.

My first Iris reticulata have opened today.

I've seen many a slug being munched by a hedgehog, they sound surprisingly crunchy.

Most of my pots are next to the house/shed/wall and I find this helps shelter them from the worst of the elements

A bit early, the incessant rain would pound them into the ground.

I also passed a house near where I live and that had a nice couple of rhododendron in the border, quite close to the rose bushes, should I knock on their door and have a word? I didn’t bother as could tell by the label on the rhododendron it was a cheap one from Lidls*.As they say if you like...

I think they might well do.

The first episode is a bit depressing but stick with it. You are in for a very odd evening!

Bit late for this year but if you have really claggy clay soil I'd try winter green manure, something like grazing rye, it works if you dig it in when the clay is drying slightly, wait too long and it will be hard work. The rye really helps the drying out in early spring and the roots make the...

That keeps the other lanes clear for us then .