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Well done @potted ! You'll be able to bring on plants well in there. Yes rotation is a good idea, but you may need to allow a "messy" space at the end of the garden for the out of season pots to hide. How about a couple of tomatoes in the greenhouse?

What a good result @hailbopp, not surprised you are now on your knees. You will have deserved a good rest when the sale is over.

There are already body bags coming home @pete and no doubt more to follow.War is only good for the weapons manufacturers, arms merchants and, long term, medical innovation as medics find new ways to deal with injuries.Ukraine is still standing because its people are remarkably robust,...

Thank you everyone, it is covered in flower buds so I'll keep it potted near the back door for fragrance and then consider where to put it. We had a pretty cold winter for here and it would have been sat outside in the sales beds during that, so is probably a lot more hardy than I had considered.

As they are pretty small, they're probably just a single unbranched stem like the ones the farmers used - they planted them about 20cm apart! And your boundary looks very long...

That plant looks like Euryops pectinatus. A common sub shrub that's used in a lot of public planting schemes.

We love our Lakeland airfryer - one big drawer with a removable divider. Bought silicon dishes which are dishwasher-proof to save on the mess.

Good plan.

I used to top dress my clay soil with loads of it, and it was a family challenge with the kids to get to the mushrooms first. Although I know they add chalk, it didn't seem to affect the plants, but I never tried making compost purely with it.

23rd March 2026On the evening of the 23rd into the 24th, Cherry the hedgehog was out, trying to get rid of fleas! The hog was shaking so much, it lost its balance and fell over! Nearby, Bandit the cat has been spotted a few times, sitting by the Thorny olive tree, watching the nearby mouse...