Sorry, I know it's well off topic.....but I'm finally getting a kitchen!!! A big one  OMG - I have waited 20 years for this.
I think my husband has been fed up with the "if anyone needs a new kitchen it has to be Scarlet" comments.

My plans ran out but they are alive again - just waiting on the builders quotes. We've decided on a smaller build due to costs but I'm still happy.

I've been trying to draw mine out on paper, but this isn't working. I've a couple of vulnerable peeps at home so I don't want to go trawling the shops looking for inspiration. But this is my one and only chance of getting the kitchen that I want - my OH is already saying "you can add those cabinets later" that will never happen. I want it done as one project. 
I finally get a kitchen that has a big fridge!! I have spent the last 20 years going outside to the fridge in the shed to get stuff while cooking- no fun in the rain.

Anyway - any free apps out there where I can just plot in the measurements and move boxes around?

I was innocently browsing the internet when I must have stumbled across a time warp page. As a result I have just lost 2 hours, reading the wonderfully worded pages of this website. Along with being fascinated by some of the rather unusual seeds on offer from them, Tiger nut, Sea beet, Nodding Onion....


"A catalogue of seeds of the different sorts of esculent plants that are raised for use in the kitchen" www.thomasetty.co.uk/seeds/index.html

If, like me, you cannot resist cheap little plants (whether at the budget grocery store or the garden centre bargain table), you may be interested to know that Aldi has plants in at the moment.

Fruits: Summer and autumn raspberries (Autumn bliss, but can't remember the summer), blackberry, redcurrant, gojiberry, tayberry, loganberry, green and red gooseberries, and probably a few more.

Euonymus, clematis, calla lilies, and several other varieties.

I have grown six  Habanero chilli plants which are now ripening. The problem is that the fruits are only the size of a large pea? I have kept them watered and gave them a feed once a fortnight. The plants look healthy but the fruits are tiny.

Any idea of what I have done wrong SC?

I'm in the market for some new anti-insect mesh to protect my alliums from the leaf miner and brassicas from flea beetle and as my hoops made from left over rebar aren't really big enough I though I'd invest in some supports too. But why is everything round, meaning that the outside edges can't be easily used?
Does anybody make/sell rectangular frames to support mesh or plastic? I can't find anything on the French market, beyond modular solid plastic cloches.
I may have to set MrPP a task, although he still hasn't made the bench from the tree my neighbour cut down three years ago ...

http://bristol.ac.uk/cabot/news/2020/app...edR_EE703A

Interesting research project to identify apple varieties from their leaves - but more leaves are needed. 
Wish I lived nearer - I have lots of unidentified apples.

Just having a wander round the garden today and noticed this cherry tree trunk...is the tree dying? The leaves seem healthy enough though.

   

Afternoon folks

Earlier in the year I sowed asparagus and rhubarb from seed and both seem to be doing well.

The question I have is should I leave them in their pots until next year or plant out in beds now?

TIA

This is not really a problem as I have 2 cucumbers in the fridge and there are still 4 growing slowly on the plant but the leaves on the main stem turned pale green then yellow and now are dead. There is a cucumber near the top and a few green leaves at the end still may be growing. 2 other vines (same plant) are on the floor with 3 smallish fruit still growing and some leaves on them, again some have yellowed. This picture was taken 2 weeks ago and most of the leaves in the picture are now dead:

   

Any ideas what the cause is likely to be (ignore the nettles in the background)?

Hello all!

I'm looking for some soft fruit recommendations. Anniversary gift for my partner, so trying to channel his preferences in my description.

We're on heavyish soil with some clay and some stones (though has been improved over the years) at the top of a very gently sloping site - not too exposed and windy but will probably get frost over the winter.

He was really impressed with a fruit that our plot neighbors grow - elongated, shiny, black fruit, must be a blackberry hybrid. Not sure what they were called though and never see our plot neighbors to ask! We have a boysenberry, some raspberries, and (unintentionally, of course) lots of wild blackberries. Any recommendations for one of the other blackberry hybrids?

Also, he rescued a white grape variety from a discount table at the garden centre. But it's actually a wine variety and that will be a totally new adventure for us (why not?! hate to see a plant go to waste). Any recommendations for an eating variety (any color) that will grow in Birmingham?

We also have black, white, and red currants, and strawberries (plus rhubarb and some fruit trees). He says he doesn't care for gooseberries. I'll probably buy some blueberry plants for my little one separately, which I'll need to care for in pots as our soil isn't acidic enough for them. Prefer something that can be planted in the ground. I think he'd also be interested in late-season strawberries. We're planning to get a fruit cage sorted for next year, so can be something that needs protection.

So, the short version: any suggestions for blackberry hybrids? eating grapes? late-season strawberries? any other must-grow soft fruits?

Thanks!