I’ve a question. How big do you let your courgette get for seed saving?
I’ve done the isolation thing, and I’ve used the male flower as a paint brush. Do I leave it to get a little bigger than normal. Or do I pick at normal size and in either case store it and allow the seeds to ripen.

Ticks or tic? I'm not sure? 
Anyway waht do you lot use to stop them? Those drops, collars etc?
I've just taken off over 40 from my collies ears  not a great job when I've come in from the garden gone 8 ready for a glass of fizz.

True to usual form I sowed my CFBs too early and by the time I got to plant them they were probably a metre long and pot bound.   Now tell me, do you untwine the tangle of beans and plant up, encouraging the long tentacle up a pole, or do you trim the tentacle letting the plant shoot from the bottom.

Also, if pot bound,  do you tease out the roots before planting or not?

We have Veggie's weekly aspirational list which some of us remember to update, but if you work on a daily rather than a weekly basis, tell us what you have achieved today, it need not be growing related of course.

To start us off:

I've finished planting out the greenhouse with tomatoes and cucumbers,  continued planting CFBs but still have more to do.  OH stirred the current compost for me, bless him.

I am looking for information/recommendations of where I could buy a good hut I intend doing away with two old huts that I have and replacing them with one large good quality hut budget up to £2500. could anyone give a recomendation

I'm sure there's already a thread somewhere, but I can't find it.

Anyway, here's what I cut this morning: Sweet peas and Gillenia.

   

Finally got the greenhouse planted.......... shame about the rest of the garden

Before and after

   

   

Afternoon all.
I've just litfed all my garlc because the few spots of rust I saw at the beginning of the week have run riot. I've never had rust before and just wanted to check about storage.
I've read so far that -
You cannot store any infected bulbs.
You can store it exactly as usual, drying as normal.
You can store it but must remove all infected leaves before drying very, very carefully first.
Ummm    
Any experience of rusty garlic - it is a cracking harvest so it would be really annoying to lose it now!
Thanks 

All about Dahlias - growing, propagating and enjoying. Photos welcome.

All about Roses - Photos welcome.