I don't know whether anyone has seen this You Tube video before?


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yskf94MY...el=MattiaM.

Well I had seen it a good while ago and thought it funny. Whilst in the Farplace charity shop I came across the book for 10p in unread condition and just had to have it!

The video still creases me up!

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What crops have finished for the year? 

I've picked my last courgettes, beans, peas,  strawberries, plums.  Roll on next summer!!

I'm considering making a raised bed with some surplus wood from an old pergola to grow some root veg in. Has anyone  done this? I'm on stony clay so will require some different soil to fill the bed with. Has anyone got any recommendations as to what to fill the bed with as cheaply as possible?

Have just been reading through mcdood's thread about oscillating hoe's and noticed some comments regarding the length of shafts, as I am doing a lot of shovel work just now, one of the problems I have is the shaft of the shovel being too short, I have to use a shovel which I bought in lidls it has a long shaft but no handle which means you don't get the same power when digging in to lift some soil I have a couple of garden spades and of those the most comfortable one for working with is a cheap one bought again from lidles, as it has a longer shaft, I think it was manufactured in the Continent and it is so much better for working with, when I purchased the other spade which came from an ironmongers, it was the longest shaft I could find at the time, but even on the rare occasion when you come across replacement shafts they are still on the short side, so why the difference between here and the Continent

Have a super day Can, no wonder you're away in the sunshine.  Have an extra glass or two in celebration and enjoy.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-58879461

I just wonder what the World is coming to. This is the latest in a long line of ridiculous changes being forced on society. Makes you wonder how we have managed without for thousands of years?

   

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So today I planted my garlic from saved bulbs from last year (can't remember the original variety I've been self saving garlic bulbs for several years now). 
For reasons of space and other things still being in other growing spaces I've planted mine in a selection of pots this year. 

Who else has already planted garlic and who's planning on doing so?

Spotted this on the BBC news site. Mainly based in Holland methinks but judging by my dog walks, little forests seem to be cropping up all over the place. Well done to ever instigated it.

  https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/av/stories-56003562

According to Real Seeds, onions, leeks, spring onions have a seed life of 3 years max. With this in mind, I've been going through all my allium seeds and pulling out all that have a sow by date of 2020/21 to sow now in my usual random way.
It is actually the right time of year to sow Chives & Garlic Chives, Winter Hardy White Lisbon Spring onions, Evergreen Bunching onions, Feast Spring onions, North Holland Blood Red Redmate onions for salad or bulb and Senshyu yellow onions - so I'll start with these. 
Since I'm hopeless at growing bulb onions from seed, I'm going to treat them all as "spring onions" and mix together all the seeds - sow a few in a seed tray and the rest will be scattered outdoors, probably in a square block so that I don't confuse them with grass.
In January, I'll do the same with the old leek seeds and a few more onions and in March I'll scatter the remainder. 
By then, I should have some idea about what has germinated and may be usable and, if very little, the leeks etc can be sown in the same square.
I'd like to grow enough alliums that I can pull one up whenever I want a bit of onion flavour - I don't need big, eyewatering onions.