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Sunny again and chilly to start with. Admin this morning and research. Possum wants a proper quiche for dinner and suggested salmon - almost as bad as pineapple on a pizza! I'm better at frittatas with lots of onions and veggies and cheese. It's likely to be goat's cheese and broccoli as...

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...

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Pictures not suitable for faint hearted potato growers. Potato Diseases

Currently got garlic and Elephant garlic growing nicely, also broad bean Aqua Dulce planted out late November. Onion sets and shallots planted. Early Onward are developing in the greenhouse as are tomato and pepper plants. Broad bean The Sutton seed germinating on a damp kitchen towel in a take...

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.