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@pete there was a lovely bit on Rick Stein's Australia where he was talking to a farmer who raises his beef cattle on grass and sells it online and in a roadside honesty box. He told Rick about a woman the other side of Australia who had started buying his beef and whose OH was very pleased cos...

Happy house anniversary Ours is on the 28th, marking 19 years since we bought this house.The wood is looking pretty good and I'm glad the mice seem to have survived. We had a rat problem a year or two ago and it's not very nice, I got quite stressed out.

My oldest wheelbarrow may have fitted your criteria as it had a few holes but they were from rust. There was one drawback with it. The wheel that was on it rusted off last year . It went into the skip with the old greenhouse that was falling down.The greenhouse was only 50 years old and the...

I think it is about 2.5ft deep, so a fair size. Whatever is in there gets watered daily along with the hanging baskets etc. I do actually have the components of an auto-watering system in the shed, just not had time to install it... maybe that is a task for this year

They need all the sunshine with their necks in the sun.

Olivia Rose Austin may also be suitable, judging by the picture in the Handbook which arrived today.

Hellebore bought last week at Farmyard now fully open A cheat I'm afraid - acacia longifolia in greenhouse

@Perki I bought that Acer in 2020 out of naivety that red leaves look nice. Reality was that in the first spring, it lost all its leaves to leave scorch. I took it out of the ground and put it into a barrel pot for 2 years to have it in a shade corner. It had a poor life because a tree in a pot...

Thanks @NigelJ - that looks good.

Oops! Sorry @cactus-girl I repeated what you said. We must watch the same programmes.

The bed is 6m x 1/2m two strips. Bit expensive and labour intensive with straw. Vine weevil I did not know about, I'll look that up. I will dig out the older plants and let the new suckers take over.

Hi, another climbing hydrangea question, does anyone grow "bright side"? It is another plant I was given, not something I'd personally buy but am willing to see if I'm wrong. When I received it the leaves were quite scorched. I don't know if this was because it was in a pot and last summer was...