I never do fabulously at cuttings but now is a good time to take some softwood cuttings.

I took half a dozen clematis a couple of weeks back along with some orange blossom cuttings.
Chuffed that 3 of the clematis are looking promising.

I would love to get some black Sambuca cuttings going but I've never had much luck....had anyone tried?

   

Bob came home with 7 of these big bags. Made from the same stuff as my potato bags but twice the size. 
So Potato production will increase next year   .

Anyone grown pomegranate? I’m giving it a go. I didn’t grow it from seed, I got it last week from someone who germinate lots from a shop brought fruit. 

   

So I've always dug up my spuds with a 5 pronged fork, and I always end up stabbing at least a dozen spuds in the process which I can't then put in sand and save for later in the year. I've been looking for historical potato forks to see how they used to do it in the past to avoid stabbing the precious cargo. I wondered if there was a way of attaching round balls like ping pong balls to the end of the fork to see if that would stop the waste.

Any ideas?

I was in B&Q today and. Bought me a moisture and ph meter combined for €10.

 I thought it worth sharing, does anybody use this type of meter ?

   

Looking at the garden today there were two plants which brought back memories there are actually more but these two in particular one is the rose Zephirine Drouhin which I got as a cutting from an old friend and the other is a peony rose which came from my mother I have lost this 3 or 4 times over the years but got tubers from my sister who in turn has had some from me as we both got our original tubers from our mum's plant I view it as the same plant, do you have any plants with memories

I have found some wrinkled up very well chatted early potatoes (think they're charlottes). I planted them yesterday, some in grow bags, some in ground I.e where I had space available. I'm guessing that as long as they have enough reserves left to sprout and make a few leaves they should be ok and create a later crop of spuds. 

Has anyone got any experience of doing this? Did it work fine?

I just posted on another thread about using a hoe and realised that it's one of my main garden tools as I can cover a lot of ground using it, reaching areas without having to step on the beds also weeding in between plants that might be difficult to reach and most important better to lean against than a spade when having a rest. So what's your essential garden tools?

I thought this was some kind of Vetch - but my neighbour doesn't think so. I've looked online and I think the leaves aren't right. So it's really bugging me.
We go for dog walks at the fields behind us ( my neighbour has always taken ours when he does his dog walk as he no longer has a dog)  so a win win for ours as they get double walks
Anyway there's a crop field that has been thickly edged with this? 
What do you think?

   

My tulips have got big fat seed heads. Is it worth saving the seeds? How long do tulips take from seed to flower? 
Will they flower?  Will they come true? 
As you can tell I know nothing   .