Sorry to add to your woes but just picked the first strawberries in the tunnel. The sun has been warming it up and the fruit were a really good...
We had RAIN for about 20 minutes late afternoon yesterday. It helped to put water back in the pond, cleaned a lot of pigeon mess of the glass roof...
Not Sarcococca
@Michael Hewett we also belong to our village garden club. In the winter/spring time we arrange a talk and also have soup and puds get together....
We sow in pots indoors and then when they have their true leaves planted them out into the soil in the polytunnel. They have been there now for...
We haven't had any rain for nearly 2 months. The ground is like concrete. The water butts (we have 4) are nearly all empty. We use the rain water...
Went for a walk at a nature reserve this morning. Splendid view of a pair of marsh harriers with the male being very white. A pair of cranes in...
We used to visit a supermarket on the edge of Carcassonne which had the main railway line next to it. We could hear the nightingales singing their...
Many years ago we were given an enormous one from somebody who didn't have the space anymore. A friend took us in his jeep to collect it and what...
@Selleri you can always use the extra cucs in a chutney as you also have so many other great veg.
Yes do @Selleri we also pick the young leaves for salads.
We have grown pak choi for many years in our tunnel. Usually I sow in pots and then transplant out into the beds of the tunnel. Have never grown...
@Selleri 18 cucumber plants!
@pete are those oranges ready now? Amazing. Could you use them for marmalade?
Well today watched a female blackbird collecting nesting material from around our "lawn". She then flew off with a mouthful and came back many...
Cleared out the old salad leaves from the tunnel. Sowed some more leaves, radishes and carrots. Planted out some zucchini, harvested some radishes...
@pete we don't hate ivy but we have let too much grow too much up into our trees. We will leave ivy growing where we now "think" it wont be such...
Working in the garden this morning had a chiffchaff singing and looking down on me. Lovely. Saw holly blue, orange tip, speckled woods, peacock...
Dug up the last of the leeks. Some still OK but most now well over. Weeded an area and then planted out the sweet corn seedlings. Carried on...
We have 2 so named Victoria plums. One of them most definitely is not. However we have had a great harvest for some years from it. This year the...
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