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We have posted a very rough video from my phone onto our youtube channel....Vinny even gets a mention....thats how bad it is! 

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Hi all,

Now that we have a Morr*sons near us, I have been spying some of the MFBs on offer (8 for 99p, I think). They look about 35 cm or 14 inches high, something like that. I imagined them a bit bigger, for some reason. I usually need more pots for chillies, peppers, tomatoes, melons, in the GH, but I'm not sure what is a good fit for this size pot.

In any case, I'm wondering what you grow in this size pot.

Please fill my head with ideas for GH growing!

Thanks

Hi all,

In the past, I've had White Lisbon seeds from various mixed seeds packs that we grew for spring onions. Is there any other variety you grow as spring onions? Can anything be a spring onion if harvested at the right time?

In an aside, I have some little white/purple alliums that are growing around my plot. I think they might be bulbed up White Lisbon but I'm not sure! Must be more organized next year! (This year!)

Thanks!

The Plains Indians practised polygamy, and one chief had three wives

The first wife lived in a tepee of elk hide
the second in a tepee
made of buffalo hide, 
and the youngest in a tepee of hippopotamus hide.

He slept with each wife on the eve of his great hunting trip.

He was gone nine moons and when he returned, he went into the elk hide
tepee and found that his wife had borne him a son. Likewise, in the
buffalo hide tepee, that wife, too, had borne him a son. So, imagine
his surprise when he found twin baby boys in the hippopotamus hide
tepee.
This just proves that …


The Squaw on the Hippopotamus is equal to the sum of the Squaws on the other two hides.

OH thinks I have lost the plot...........she is probably right.

When I put stuff in the oven I always set the timer in case I forget.

When it 'dings' I am usually doing summat I need to finish so I talk to it. Some of my favoured comments are:-

1) ffs

2) Yeah, yeah, yeah!

3)Shut the F**** up!

4) I know, I Knoooooooow!

5)For cripes sake!

5)Right, Righttttttt!

6) Shaddap, shadappppp!

There are other utterances which I have been known to use but I dare not add them!

How many of you hot wash and sterilise your seed trays or pots, I don't, I will give them a quick rinse with a hose or a wipe with a cloth and have not experienced any problems, do you think it is necessary?

By popular request , let's I-SPY Stuff/Objects/Things/Whathaveyou. 
By the time we've reached Z it'll be nearly spring.

Two years ago I along with my grandsons cleared a small bit of ground in a field that has been left to go wild, but unfortunately we couldn't do any work on it last year, but hopefully we should be able to work on it this year, but having a look at it the other day it has reverted back to a wild field again, so looking for ideas on how to clean it out again, I would like to go no dig, but I don't have sufficient home made compost for that to work and no access to barrow in anything like manure, but there is a lot of dead wood from hedge cuttings near by and I could get my shredder into the field, so do you think that would work or would I just be wasting my time

We've been thinking about doing the chicken thing for about a decade now (!) and one of the sticking points was having someone to keep an eye on them when we were way. But as going away no longer seems to be a thing, our neighbour no longer works away during the week and we have a couple of other friends in the village all who will exchange chook checking for eggs, it would appear that the time has come to think more seriously.

However MrPP needs some persuading ...

Honestly, what are the pros and cons? Especially the cons. Costs - how much do they eat, diseases, predation (we're surrounded by woods and see foxes and martens even in broad daylight). Are they more trouble than they're worth? They would probably be in a small run/hen house within a larger enclosure for when we're around, rather than roaming free. Our other neighbour was a small scale commercial free range egg producer, and kept a dog in with the hens to keep the foxes away, so this concerns me greatly.

And I'd like to combine young birds with re-hoaming battery hens.

With respect to the vegetarian members, I'm also pondering birds for the table as well as layers. Perhaps a Christmas goose?

Thanks as ever

So what’s everyone’s gardening plan for this year?
What’s on your grow list? Anything new ?
Doing anything different?

This year my plan is to only have 2 raised beds in action & 2 tunnels (1 of them not full). 
I’m growing 

Runner beans
Dwarf french bean
Scarlets mystery climbing bean mix
Kale 
Red cabbage 
Broccoli 
Courgette 
Tromboncino 
Vegetable spaghetti 
4 tomatoes 
30 Chillies ( varieties, not plants )
4 sweet pepper 
Aubergine Kermit 
Cucumber 
Lettuce 
Salad mixes 
Plus my perennials ( asparagus, rhubarb, fruit & herbs )

A couple of tomatoes, sweet peppers, chillies & Kermit are new to me this year. 

I’m hoping to store a lot more this year, freeze or dried.