What do you do with the last bits of food that linger inside a jar? 
I have a flexible scraper thingy that pulls the last of the jam etc out of the jar. 
If its a pasta/curry sauce, I add some hot water, give the jar a shake and add it to the cooking pot. Nothing complicated.

However, tonight I saw this https://wickedleeks.riverford.co.uk/life...dressings/

I've been rummaging in the weird and wonderful seed box and found some Shiso seeds and some Perilla seeds. After a quick duckduck I find that they are the same plant!!

"Shiso is known by many names including perilla, perilla mint, Chinese basil, wild basil, wild coleus, summer coleus and in the West as The Beefsteak Plant. Its many names were inspired by both its appearance and its flavour. It’s a member of the mint family so it’s no surprise that it has hints of mint in its flavour along with cumin, nutmeg and anise". https://advicefromtheherblady.com/plant-...als/shiso/

You won't be surprised to hear that Suttons/James Wong used to sell them as "Beefsteak plant". 

A few websites warn that it self seeds freely and can be invasive. 
The growing instructions are :- Red or green leaves with a good aroma for use in salad packs or as a stir-fry vegetable. Sow All year round. Sow seed in succession every 2-3 weeks for a continuous supply of fresh young leaves. keep soil moist and cut leaves from each plant leaving some leaves on each so they re-grow. You will often get 3-4 cuttings per plant. 

Has anyone grown or eaten Shiso/Perilla please?

On BBC news site this morning:-

https://www.bbc.co.uk/food/articles/edib...est_garden

I've grown a tomato in the gh called Burlesque. It's fruiting well and the fruits are big, so big that one has fallen off because it was too heavy for its stem. Unfortunately the fallen fruit is green but in order to stop this happening with the other trusses does anyone have any ideas or experience of trying to support with slings like with melons? DIY preferable but I'm happy to buy summat

Anybody noticed that there seems to be a dearth of pelargoniums at the moment?
All my local nurseries and garden centres have sold out.
Also there don’t seem to be any available from the “big” mail order suppliers either.
Any ideas why?

I'm planning on moving/changing the lay out of my veg beds and while I'm doing it was thinking of adding some drip/soaker hose (not sure which) irrigation.. my thoughts were irrigation hoses in each bed with an isolator valve to a hose running back to a water butt which due to the fall of the land will be at least 2-3 ft higher than tops of the beds depending how high I put the beds. 
Has anyone ever done similar, and do people think this should be enough fall to get enough pressure? Also anything I haven't thought of/recommendations of things I should add to the system?

Just out of interest and to refresh my memory about what size to pick and pruning I googled 'Emily cucumber' SHOCK HORROR  up came 'watch Emily Cucumber porn videos here'!  I beat a hasty retreat and didn't have the courage to view any, I might get P to have a look and tell me about it.  I also have a niece Emily,  I'm never going to view my niece or cucumber in  the same way again. 

Shortly I shall have some bare ground when the MT and broardies are cleared.  Probablt about 6 x15ft.  In past years I've not bothered to use this ground and it stays fallow because I'm disorganised (lazy).  I have a mind to fill it with summat but haven't any seedlings in the background to use.  What can I sow?   I've more than enough beans and courgettes, I could do lettuce/salad leaves but don't want to be overloaded in  that region, we don't eat an awful lot of lettucey stuff.   I already have baby chard and beetroot coming on elsewhere.  Ideas on a postcard please 

I've just seen a comment on a local site saying he'd pickled his lettuce - has anyone pickled their lettuce before? I haven't got a jar big enough for my lettuces.  BTW the cosberg lettuces I've grown this year are very nice.

I picked up a book last week titled " Living the Simple Life: A Guide to Scaling down and enjoying more" by Elaine St. James. 

Thought you might like to hear some of the suggestions!
1. Work less hours or work from home or stop working completely. The Author gave up her job and now churns out multiple books with very similar titles to earn a crust.
2. Downsize your home. Move to somewhere smaller so you have less to look after.
3. Sell most of your possessions because they won't fit into your smaller home. 
4. Get rid of all your books and use the library.
5. Get rid of your house plants as they take so much time watering etc. (She didn't say anything about having a garden. Maybe that's in another book.)
6. Eat the same meals every week so you have the same shopping list. 
7. Buy 7 identical pairs of socks and, once worn, put them in a wash bag. You'll never lose a sock again and you don't need to pair them up as they're identical.
8. Don't have friends over for meals - then you can reduce the amount of crockery and cutlery etc that you need.
9. Turn your phone onto answer machine and ignore it when it rings. You can then listen to the recorded message and ring back at a time when the caller will also have their answer machine on. That way you don't waste time on the phone.

I can't remember all the wonderful suggestions she had for "scaling down" but I'm not sure that "enjoying more" would be the end result.