I have a Victoria Plum that usually gives a large crop. Unfortunately, it had to be uprooted and moved today. It is about 15 to 20 years old so could well not survive. It did retain quite a reasonable amount of roots.

Does anyone have any advice on the best way to prune it and when?

   

A little game!! 
Can you Name the Butterflies in the image?

Don't post your answers until you've identified them all (or most of them) as, I know what you lot are like and you'll cheat. 

Real Seeds advice 
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I planted Japanese onion sets in autumn (about October if I remember rightly).

I now have my spring planted sets ready to go in and looking at my autumn planted sets, some haven't even put out a growing shoot yet. They have a few roots but that's about all.
Usually when I am ready to plant out the spring sets the Japs are about 6 inches tall......but not this year.

Anyone else's Japs lagging behind?

I think I have decided on a little experiment with some first earlies.

Using 3 30ltr pots I am going to put 3 seed potatoes in each with different growing mediums

1 x 50 50 mix straw and normal soil from the plot
1 x well rotted manure
1 x compost from the compost bin

Jazzy is the potato of choice

Anyone tried anything similar?

Qurious to know if anyone practices sowing or growing by the phases of the moon, I can understand how the water level can be affected by the moon but does it make any difference to seed growth, so if you use it is there a noticeable difference?

Hero - Captain Sir Tom Moore

Basically I was looking for a crochet hook in amongst my huge stores of haberdashery, my own and inherited. 
I found these pliers once belonging to MiL.  Anyone know what they might have been used for?
They were made by Maun Industries of Mansfield and I can even find a replica for sale on Ebay, but no mention of their particular use.
   

Since I have become a carer for OH I do all the cooking. The one thing I do enjoy making and eating are PIES!

I think I have made all the usual,corned beef, steak, Ham n egg and I have a cheese and onion pie in the oven at the mo. I normally just google a recipe for whatever I have in the cupboard.

I was just wondering what were peoples 'Go-to' pies that were cheap and easy to make? They don't have to be savoury as I quite like sweet pastries and fruit as well.

Ta very much in anticipation.

I have been watching various online videos on growing onions....sad I know!

It appears American growers prune back the top growth by about 50% when the sets start to swell. This apparently stimulates the onion to swell more. Anyone tried it?