Well for breakfast (most days) 70g oats with spoon of honey and water plus 60g soft fruit out of garden (rasperries/red/black currants)

dinner today included onions and cherry tomatoes. Still got a few galina left. They keep very well and are good added to pizza or in salads. The grandson eats them like toffees. Their downside is the small number of fruit on each truss. Although they are determinate, I grow mine like a semi determinate and let a few of the armpits develop. I got just 6kg from the one plant but it took up about 4'x3' in the greenhouse.

Tea was sausage, mash and cabbage. the mash was potatoes/leeks and carrots all from the garden.
The OH went back for seconds of the cabbage. We don't have it too often.

Hi all
Im new to this forum so just doing a brief intro. Live in West Wales (UK) and really interested in everything to do with Polytunnels. Ive got a 20ft x 10ft tunnel which I put up 3 years ago. Re-covered it this year as the green mesh cover was rubbish. Ive got raised beds inside and built a 'hotbed' in one of the beds this year. Has anybody else built hotbeds and any tips? Looking forward to some online gardening!  

Cheers
DaiWig

Remember this? Flowers you're growing or intend to grow with names beginning with E. 

I'll start with Echinacea - I have the pink one but would like more.
Erysimum/wallflower. have some of these but you can never have too many wallflowers.
Want to grow Echium vulgare - the wildflower Vipers Bugloss as its a good bee plant.

May we take this opportunity to wish our members, their families and friends, a very Merry Christmas and a happy and healthy New Year.

It has been an extremely trying year and the hope of better times is on the horizon thanks to all those wonderful people who have put us, before themselves, thank you NHS.

Do you have any family rituals beyond the usual?

For as many years as I can remember I have always read The Dark is Rising by Susan Cooper over the Christmas period. It is a fantasy novel rooted in Arthurian legend but can (should?) be read in real time starting on Midwinter's Eve. 

Growing up, my Dad read The Father Christmas Letters by JRR Tolkien to us every Christmas Eve.

While watching the news this evening this notice was in view UNATTENDED & MESSY CHILDREN WILL BE GIVEN A SHOT OF EXPRESSO AND A PUPPY, there is also this one that I have come across, Gents please stand closer, its not as big as you think, 
So to cheer some of us up please post any humourus notices that you have come across

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-55364664

I will be out there trying to see it, weather permitting, though I don't know whether you need a telescope for it to become visible?

Morning Folks
 
As you can see from the photos the leeks and onions seem to be doing well, the bulbs were planted last month.
 
The question is should I leave them indoors until next year or put them out?
 
If out my view was they would sit in the yard and be planted at the plot Feb/Mar?

       

The onions are the first photo.

What's yours like?

Ours is artificial, why? Cos it was cheap in Tescos.  Only just got it out today,  the lights are on it, but not decorated yet.  Nothing designer for me, some bits and baubles dating back to my childhood and festive makes of the lad's from the '90s. Plenty of mum's favourites in memorium.
Will try to post a pic when it's finished. 

Other peoples pics  would be nice too.

As a follow on to the organic gardening, could you let us know how you use natural control of pest and disease of your garden plants 
 French marigold to control whitefly in the greenhouse
Feed the birds all year round and while they are waiting their turn at the feeder they clear insects from your flowers (it is advisable to clean below the feeders regularly as uneaten seed can encourage vermin)
If you have clubroot in your garden it is still possible to grow brassica, use cover, cloch etc. to warm up the soil and get the plants in early so that the roots establish before the fungus starts moving about June (though this date could be getting earlier now)