Lablab/Dolichos/Hyacinth beans have the most amazing seeds...flat black with a white edge..........and I have a few.. 
Has anyone grown them - or eaten them? 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lablab

https://www.gardenorganic.org.uk/sites/w...Lablab.pdf

    Anyone any ideas what this is please?
Two popped up in the pot where last year’s cucumbers were.

Have had very poor germination with my commercial clary seed. However have noticed loads of self sown seedlings in the patch of garden where I had clary last year. Have put quite a few of these in multipacks ready for planting out later. BUT, now I’m not sure if they are clary seedlings, the leaves look a bit rounded. What do you think? And if not clary, what weed could it be?
The garden ones are on the left and the commercial ones are on the right 
Thanks.

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In the shallot thread we were talking about making mistakes,  but that they weren't really mistakes but just a learning process.

How about owning up to these 'learning processes' for a bit of self flagellation and letting everyone learn with you.

My prime one this year was sowing broad beans in the autumn in root trainers in November but keeping them in the gh come spring.  They became very leggy and when planted out folded over and were really unhappy in the cold nights.  Another lesson learned is don't put the pot of gh peas smack dab in the middle of the gh border - they've taken root through the pot and will shortly be in the way.

Unfortunately I don't seem to learn too well from my mistakes because by next spring I will have forgotten.

Anyone growing a Korean fir?
Bob photographed one in a garden he was working at yesterday.

   

Think I might have to add this to my grow list.

This year I have grown several different varieties of tomato and they are all doing well. The problem is only with Marmand they are all producing a mega flower at the growing point. Anyone know why this should happen and what should I do about it?
Thanks

This thing cost about £22 and records the temperature in my gh at intervals of my choice  (10minutes) throughout the night then creates a pdf of the list of temperatures and a graph.  See pics.  It satisfies the scientist in P.  I'm not sure whether the pdf will transfer to the post, if not I'll take a jpeg. Please let me know.

   

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I love a garden visit and now things are relaxing a little although I won't be off doing lots of coffee ahops etc I will go to a few open gardens in my area.

Most places have a booking system this year - I just missed out on a visit for this week as all tickets are sold....so that won't happen again. Most places are between £4-10, have plant sales and cofffee available. 
If I manage to take photos I will be sharing here.

Anyone else like having a nose?

I was being a happy snapper this morning so here are a few piccies of things that interested me or I found beautiful on my early morning dog walk.

Picures are of structures in the woods which I wondered about, my dog saying hello to some bullocks in the field, a  little wild flower, a nd one is of a bridge which for where it is is overkill (they don't make em like that anymore), a birch tree growing out of another tree stump (not birch), gorse flowers etc.It was nice to see some of the local kids must have made a camp in the woods similar to what I did may years ago.

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Last year's thread at https://gardenandgossip.org/showthread.p...529#pid529

Tell us how many plants you're growing and how many you pick.
Cucumbers, courgettes, squash, melons and so on - all are welcome!