[b]The price of a first class stamp is to rise above £1 in April, Royal Mail has announced.[/b]

From 3 April, first class stamps will increase by 15p to £1.10p, while second class stamps will rise by 7p to 75p.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-64840646

Time to stock up? I'll be buying Large Stamps. 

Thought this was a useful list of what we may be able to have in the Little Shop each month. 

https://vegsoc.org/cookery-school/blog/s...96d22b8002

January
Apples, Beetroot, Brussels Sprouts, Carrots, Celeriac, Celery, Chicory, Jerusalem Artichokes, Kale, Leeks, Mushrooms, Onions, Parsnips, Pears, Red Cabbage, Salsify, Savoy Cabbage, Spring Greens, Spring Onions, Squash, Swedes, Turnips, White Cabbage.

February
Apples, Beetroot, Brussels Sprouts, Carrots, Celeriac, Chicory, Jerusalem Artichokes, Kale, Leeks, Mushrooms, Onions, Parsnips, Pears, Purple Sprouting Broccoli, Red Cabbage, Salsify, Savoy Cabbage, Spring Greens, Spring Onions, Squash, Swedes, White Cabbage.

March
Artichoke, Beetroot, Carrots, Chicory, Leeks, Parsnip, Purple Sprouting Broccoli, Radishes, Rhubarb, Sorrel, Spring Greens, Spring Onions, Watercress.


Other Months to follow...............

It’s growing in a pot with my wallflower

   

I’m I right thinking it’s forget-me-not?

I was wondering whether this was a nationwide phenomena?

I sometimes find little painted oval rocks around the countryside whilst walking Kato.I always leave them where they are after having a good look at them.

I have just joined a local facebook page dedicated to them and vaguely remember someone jokingly getting me a rock painting kit one Christmas? I migt try and find it and have a go because I enjoy the quirkiness of them.

https://www.organiccatalogue.com/seeds/v...e_mh-63961

I picked up some of these seeds today. Has anyone grown them? I'm not a lover of knobbly tomatoes but these are a bit different, so it says! You can break the nobbles off and eat them whilst leaving the rest of the fruit intact.
Is it worth giving up a space in the GH to grow it or is it just a gimmick, since I'm never likely to go on a long journey with a knobbly tomato in my pocket!

Pretending to jump on the turnip bandwagon       .
How do you prep, cook, eat yours ?

I’ve only ever roasted mine. It’s also a vegetable I’ve never brought. If I don’t grow it, I don’t eat it.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-64729317

I expect most of you have heard that supermarkets are struggling to source tomatoes, peppers, cucumbers and more because of extreme weather in Spain & Morocco. For example, Asda, has restricted sales of lettuce, salad bags, broccoli, cauliflowers and raspberry punnets to three per customer, along with tomatoes, peppers and cucumbers. 

The UK also gets some produce at this time of year from domestic growers and the Netherlands. But farmers in both countries have cut back on their use of greenhouses to grow winter crops due to higher electricity prices.

Tim O'Malley, managing director of Nationwide Produce, one of the UK's largest fresh food producers, said British carrots, parsnips, cabbages and cauliflower had been affected by the poor weather. He said on Tuesday that there may be price rises as a result of the shortages in the coming weeks.


When I read this news, it makes me all the more determined to grow more of my own food and only eat seasonally. 

Like Bren, I have plenty of lettuce and "salad bags", and raspberries in the freezer. However, I must try harder on the winter veg production for next year.

Not especially familiar with the author, but thought some may recognise themselves here (in more or less fanciful language)...




https://amp.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle...ll-of-hope

OK so I used spent compost  for sowing this years toms and should expect the odd rogue seedling. I'm used to weeds and tomatoes popping up everywhere,  but I've got a rogue something coming up alongside some tomato seedlings and it looks strange/familiar/interesting, but I've no idea what.  Its unlikely to be floral considering the compost was old tomato pots.
For size you'll see an emerging tomato, not yet reached proper leaf stage. What is it?........ Inspiration just hit me, could it be a cucumber, although I'm damned as if I can figure how it got into outdoor tomato compost.

   

       

At the Seed Swap I picked up some anonymous beans. All they could tell me about them was, that they were not Broad Beans and they thought they might be too old to germinate. Now I'm a sucker for orphan seeds so I picked up a handful and brought them home. 
I've had a bit of a DuckDuck and found something similar but, before I say what I think they are, I'm going to ask the Panel for your thoughts.
Thank you.