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Hello! We've had a wet, wild day with a few gaps in the rain, during one of which I ran to the library to return an overdue book. Otherwise, I've been preparing for the visitors who'll be arriving on Saturday, cleaning, making beds and baking various things. Tomorrow I'm off to look after the...

Squirrel is beheading all my tulips

@SherwoodArrow I do have a photo I will have to see if I can upload it - not sure how to. She is brown and over 6cm long with the striped eyes. They are becoming more usual down here in France, I guess due to global warming.

I've got lots of windows on the second floor but unfortunately trying to have temporary stands to get the plants to their waist height would be a real pain.Our window sills are very shallow over here so not enough room to sit anything.I've pretty much finished tidying 1 greenhouse. Luckily...

Getting right windy out there, but seems mildish at 10c. Expecting rain, but not much evidence of it.Windy again tomorrow and wet. Might stay indoors again.

The talk was very interesting, the man taking it has been recording wild flowers in Carmarthenshire since 1975 and he was very knowledgeable, and talked about very rare plants, ones that are now nearly extinct, and how wild environments have changed to the detriment of native flora.

White mustard will die at about -5c so it's quite good as a green manure as it'll fairly reliably be killed by winter frosts, saving having to chop and drop later. I've sown it at the same time as the garlic on the same beds and it grows a few inches then is usually dead by xmasAll my...

Yes it worked.

Mine is the same, some times it starts off at 0.4 ten goes to 0