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Evening all. Home after a long day teaching machine patchwork techniques and my brain is fried and my feet feel splayed. It's a mixed group including 2 complete beginners and 2 almost beginners and 3 others with a bit more experience. All except 2 were completely boggled by cutting a square...

Plants are beginning to show new growth in the greenhouse. 20 germinated sweet pea seeds are now in root trainers. Flowers are now appearing on the early spring flowering salvias. Note I need to repot the Crassula ovata when the flowers are finished. Fortunately I already have a suitable...

Small up date:-I bought some heavy duty plastic to put on the benching before placing capillary matting on it. Got the roll of matting out of the loft after it sitting there 50 years since we used it in the previous greenhouse - found buying a whole roll cheaper than part of a roll. ...

Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor, just sound so much grander than Prince Andrew, and it's right mouth full. How on earth did they manage to come up with such a long name, it used to just be Randy Andy.

My first visit for the year to Ness Botanic Gardens, Wirral, today. Snowdrops everywhere!

Its not rained but been darker than ever today, not a hint of brightness. Forecast was sunny spells pm and 11c.It was actually dark all day and we only made 7c, absolutely diabolical.

Tranquility.

Oh good, thanks I had a rough idea what it would look like but as there was no picture on the label I googled it before purchase!

Greenhouse garlic and mustards. There were rat burrows I found on the other bed in there so I've not picked any mustards from it yet. Been a mild winter Outside garlic, lidl bought spring Spanish grew immediately after planting, the French softneck I've been growing for a few years now is...