It turned out to be a soggy day here so I stayed indoors and sowed this year's tomatoes, mostly cherry or medium size as they'll all be grown...
Sowed some chilli peppers last week which have all germinated: 2 x Sugar Rush Stripey 2 x Basque PepperAlong with 5 x sweet peppers: Corno di...
My sweet peppers have started to germinate after a week. Took out a couple of pots with seed leaves from the propagator and replaced with a sowing...
Dug out the heated propagator and sowed some peppers:5 x sweet pepper Jimmy Nardello 5 x sweet pepper Corno di Toro Rosso 5 x sweet pepper...
Roses. I'm digging them out one by one, apart from the Natasha Richardson which somehow always manages to be beautiful and healthy. The rest are...
I've heard that some international sellers declare their seeds as crafting items, particularly beans. Or they'll pack them in a greeting card...
I've been checking my notebook for last year and I sowed my peppers on January 7th then and they germinated a week later. However, I'm thinking of...
This year I'm going to grow mainly cherry tomatoes. I've been trying a few large beefsteaks in recent seasons but they just haven't done well for...
A Sungold cutting pictured today that I'm overwintering on the windowsill: [ATTACH]
My 2023 review (with an overall score out of 10), note that all of my tomatoes are grown outside and have to make do with whatever the weather...
Super Marmande isn't a F1 hybrid so you can save seed.
Today's harvest: [ATTACH]
Some tomatoes ripening outside this morning: Piglet Willie's French Black Jaune Flamme Gardener's Delight 2005 Auntie Madge's Plum (look at the...
I'm growing some which I grew from seed from Lidl, just called F1 Dwarf Hybrids, no fancy name! [ATTACH]
I sow mine on St Patrick's day in a heated propagator. Once germinated, they have to make do with a south facing windowsill until it's warm enough...
I've been picking for a few weeks now, mostly Sungold and Tumbling Tom Yellow. I've also had some Golden Sunrise and Jaune Flamme. The Piglet...
Today's harvest of runner beans and mixed climbing french beans. [ATTACH]
In autumn check the stem attached to the squash. Once it goes from a fresh green to a dull cork colour, then it's ready to harvest. The green...
Lots of grasshoppers in my garden. They jump around whenever I'm pottering outside. I love the sound they make.Plenty of ladybirds too, I've...
My cat loved cheese so I would roll a small ball of cheese and put her pill inside. Worked a treat.
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