So I added some more crochet to my sales barrow today after work. I discovered some **** had ripped a clump out of the lemon balm I have for sale. I say for sale. I just ask for a donation for any of the plants. They could have had the whole pot for anything 1p and above.

I need to add more compost to cover the roots again tomorrow.     

Why do that? It’s just a bit of a **** move. 

We have a little cottage right next to the house that used to have chickens on the ground floor, and seed storage on the first floor. We will convert it to a little guest house eventually.

We decided to put our future flock of hens in the barn, as it stays warmer over winter, and has running water and electricity. The far left corner of the barn where cows once were milked, we have cornered off a space with some spare wood and chicken wire. Jay has built a door and the framework, and we've worked on the lovely nesting boxes together. I'll post pics when it's finished. We've probably spent a good six working days on it so far, and we're really quite chuffed with it, considering neither of us are builders or carpenters lol

What is this? 

These are the care instructions:-

Care

Do not wash.
Do not bleach.
Do not tumble dry.
Do not iron.
Do not dryclean.
Wipe clean with a damp cloth.
Close the door when windy.

A couple of years ago I was given 2 boxes of sunflower seeds for sprouting. They are black seeds and I don't know what type of sunflowers they are. My best guess is that they are oil seed sunflowers of some sort. https://oggardenonline.com/which-variety...seeds.html
However, putting a name to them doesn't really matter as I have a cunning plan.
1. First make sure they're viable.
2. Sow them! Perhaps as part of a 3/4 sisters combination with sweetcorn, beans and squash
Assuming they grow, they will produce :-

Supports of beans
Flowers for the house and wildlife
Seeds for winter bird seed (and oil but that seems too much faff)
Seeds for sprouting next winter. 
Lots of biomass for composting. 

Guess I'd better try sprouting some seeds first.

Have you guys heard of the Tomato brown rugose fruit virus (ToBRFV)? Is it active in the UK?

It's being discussed in most Swedish gardening and grow your own groups that I'm in. If you dare say you might plant a tomato seed that you've got from a supermarket tomato, you risk getting chewed up and spat out.

I bought 4 Adora tomatoes from Morrisons last week for 40p (YS of course). They look like a flattened beefsteak tomato with dark brown skin and flesh, slightly sweet but full of flavour. 
Can't find out much about them - apart from the usual advertiser's blurb. Seem to have been bred from Marmande tomato but haven't found anything to say that they are F1. 
Wondered whether any of you lovely lot have come across them?

I've scraped out a few seeds and will try to grow them. Wish me luck! 

https://www.seedworld.com/europe/2017/10...o-variety/


https://fruittoday.com/en/articulos/ador...rtificate/

https://naturesweet.com/products/adora/

https://tomato-adora.com/en/frequently-asked-questions/

I can't find the original thread but I bought Kitchen Garden Magazine and didn't get the seeds I thought I would. I have contacted them and asked how many packets I was supposed to have and they told me 18 ,same as Veggie got. I only got 8, which I know sounds a lot but quite a bit short of 18?

They asked for my address and will send me the difference.

Jobs a goodun!

No, I'm not talking about going smoking hiding from the adults

We have a big barn, and behind it has a flat area that is stony as all hell, and then a few trees and a slope, and that is perfect for my tunnels. It's sheltered from the wind, at least a little, and the ground is much less stony. It's also protected by trees.

The tunnels are normal, round, 3 meters by 6. We will use breeze blocks to build a base to lift them up a bit, and take down the tree that is bang in the middle of where we want the tunnels. The barn is facing east to west, and this spot is on the north side of the barn, but gets plenty of sun in the spring/summer/autumn.

How would you place them?

https://youtube.com/shorts/9LOTK83Ww3Y?s...LwaQvq9aH3

Share your pleasure at picking your first tomato, strawberry or whatever of the year with us. 
Previous year's threads at https://gardenandgossip.org/showthread.p...d+my+first

We've all seen the misleading articles about growing carrots from carrot tops and all (well most) of us know that a carrot top will not grow a new, edible root. However, the top will grow leaves which are edible, if you like that sort of thing. Carrot top pesto, maybe?

What comes after the leaves?............Flowers.
And what comes after the Flowers................Seeds.

My cunning plan is to plant all the carrot tops that come my way (including the 5kg bag I was given today) and let them flower and, hopefully set seed. I'll leave them to self seed and grow a self-perpetuating carrot bed.
The bonus is hoverflies like carrot flowers.

Step 1, put my 4 carrot tops in a little water until the leaves emerge.
Step 2. Find an out of the way spot that can be a permanent carrot bed. 

I'm going to try this with any other root veg that I acquire - beetroot, parsnips etc. Nothing ventured...........