My question to the G&G team is:-
If I set aside a patch of ground and planted it with potatoes, dug up a few each year but left the tiddlers in the ground, would they keep producing or go down with some terrible disease?
Why am I asking? :_
I have some spuds that keep appearing year after year in the same place. From memory, they're blue ones which I didn't like so I've left them to their own devices. 
I also have some couch infested ground that is a pain to clear but I could bung spuds in amongst it and, maybe, "earth" them up with piles of weeds.
Could also throw in all the potato peelings as people seem to complain that they are the cause of spuds popping up in unwanted places.,

Daft idea, O Sensible Ones?? 

I watched a Huw Richards YouTube video recently about changing your attitude to Weeding. Not to look at it as a chore but as a benefit.

This is my take on it -
When you cut the grass  you use the cuttings as a mulch or in the compost to put the goodness from the grass back into the soil. Whatever the grass has taken from the soil in order to grow is returned to the soil. Just as when a tree loses its leaves in autumn, the leaves fall to the ground, decompose and return their nutrients back to the soil to feed the tree in the future.

When we pull up/dig out "weeds" and dispose of them we also dispose of their nutrients which they have taken from the soil in order to grow. Dandelions and docks, with their deep roots can access nutrients that shallower rooted plants cannot. That's why we grow comfrey, for its deep root system.
We should endeavour to return to the soil, that which we remove so as not to deplete it. 

One way to do this is by making weed tea, drowning the "weeds" in a barrel of water and using it to feed and water the garden. I have to say that, having dabbled with comfrey tea and a nettle one, I just cannot stomach the smell of such "teas". My solution will remain "chop and drop", composting and dumping on paths to dry out and then spread around the garden.

The key message, which I shall adopt, is that I will not be spending my days "weeding" but "Harvesting fertility" which sounds so much more positive. 

If you want to watch the video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_Jm9FjpWO-0&t=18s

My pumpkins and courgettes seed has just rotted, so I was wondering whether it was worth sowing again this late in the season?

Now there's a day worth celebrating.

Guess what's on the menu for me today, home made of course!  (Bit too expensive to buy from the chippy)

On a patio area I have some home grown flowers/bedding plants in trays awaiting planting. Several of these are French marigolds which are starting to flower in their cells. I went to take some  cells from a  tray to plant out and found masses of marigold flowers underneath.  Looking at the marigold plants something is taking off the tops and flowers and hiding them.  I have a feeling its four legged rather than two because of the 'hoarding' aspect. Anyone else seen this sort of thing? I have taken steps 

i seen this on Instagram and thought it worth sharing. It’s a verb that describes most of the people on here. Wink wink 
   

A delicate question for those of you of a certain age!
My mum has just had a positive stool test for colon/bowel cancer and will be having a virtual colonscopy at the end of the week, but she tells me that this was the first ever test she has had. Given that she is in her mid eighties and her brother died from bowel cancer in his early fifties, this surprised me. Is routine colorectal testing normal under the NHS or has she slipped though the net, somehow? 
We're crossing our fingers that the result is a false positive or the presence of blood has another cause. 
(My Dad died from prostate cancer that was misdiagnosed several times over a nine month period before he was finally tested, by which time it was far too late, so I'm a little sensitive!!)

Having disturbed an ant's nest in the GH today and noticed that some were winged ants, I realised that I knew very little about an ant's lifecycle.

Here's something that the Duckduck found - https://www.nhm.ac.uk/discover/when-why-...light.html

Fascinating. 

What plants have you grown/planted that you now hate the sight of - and will never, ever grow again?
..............and why? 

1. Bamboo.
I wanted a plant that screened the neighbours from my patio; something not too dense and I was offered a clump of bamboo. It seemed ideal, tall growing but moved in the wind, rustling sound complimenting the patio water feature. For a couple of years it was perfect, spreading but slowly and it gave me canes for beansticks.
Now, I hate it.  Its spread too far. Although its been cut down the roots are difficult to lift. All the cutdown canes are shooting and I've spent this morning snapping them off to weaken it.
Horrible, spiky thing - go back to the pandas. Can't even bring myself to buy bamboo toilet paper or fabrics. Don't want to support bamboo in anyway whatsoever.

That's better.

This might tempt some of you And me   
Never used them before . I Have checked reviews ( after seeing others misfortunes with unknowns   ) 

https://hayloft.co.uk/category/sale?TRE00014

They’re also doing buy a plant get a Buddleja free 

https://hayloft.co.uk/product/pollinator...?TRE00000/