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I've just brought the last 1/4 sack of last years Sarpo Mira crop home. They have kept well in the Allotment shed. I do have some Anya as well but they have long shoots and are going soft so I don't think they are usable.

Rather you than me @Allotment Boy. Shopping on a Saturday is my idea of hell - unless it's a good market.I've been busy re-organising the polytunnel. OH won't be pleased but I'm about to get into major seed sowing and wanted it to be a smooth process with everything to hand and no clutter. ...

This is an excerpt from 'Birds in Cheshire & Wirral' (a survey completed in 2007 by Cheshire & Wirral Ornithological Society):"This species is renowned for its urban winter roosts, birds gathering either on the flat roofs of large buildings, which presumably are warmer than the surrounding...

Not a garden as such but this morning we visited the South West Orchid Society Show. As usual some superb plants and many are SO big the growers must have HUGE areas to grow them in. Some lovely scents and the different colours and structures of the flowers were amazing. A really friendly group...

A nice example of a jelly ear fungus from this morning's walk

A very pleasant afternoon finally tackling "The Left Side". Now that the kennel and the mountain of subclay we dug from the pond site are gone I'm moving forwards bit by bit, mixing in endless amounts of manure, compost and sand and planting as I go.I had to dig out old photos to compare:...

Another Autumnal day.Drizzle later. Temp now 8c and overnight too. Dead still.

We have to constantly rearrange the tunnel entrance to our Hhog feeding station due to 2 cats which come in overnight. They are a real nuisance and I wish their owners would ensure their cats would remain in their own gardens.

Like anything else it depends on the usage but I'd say we have used more over the last few months than previously. Our tank holds 1000 litres and we bought 600 litres to top it up in January. Nearest estimate is probably 400 litres used since then which is higher than normal. Boiler does both...

In a not-far-away town they were selling 5 pots of Snowdrops for £5 in the market, so I bought some. The flowers are gone now but I'll put them in the ground where I can see them next winter. When they were in flower they were 2 pots for £5, so they must have been selling them off.