Just ripped out loads of this before noticing that one has a flower on it.
Please tell me that it is a weed!!!

OK so it's that time of year and I'm starting to bring in the black currant harvest. Looks like a good crop this year. Does anyone have any fail safe recipes or ideas to do with them that will save me from teaching the 3 year old to make jam as that seems like it could get fraught.

Quite a tall thing. Very upright not a sprawled.

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It must have been a very mild winter. These nemesis have come through the winter beautifully. And even self sown a few little ones in random pots. The scent is amazing too.
Anyone else had “strange survivors”? No

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The leaves on my tomato plants are quite large this year, so they are shading a number of my tomatoes, so should I remove some leaves, half the size of them or just let them grow,

Can anyone identify this tree? It is about 20 feet high and the same wide, growing in a very old disused churchyard.


           

Any recommended kitchen gadgets?
Reviews - good or bad are welcome.

 Mouli Herb Mill. 

   

I don't use it often but its good to have, in the back of the cupboard, for those mint sauce moments. It makes chopping a load of mint, easy. Bit messy to clean afterwards but very satisfying to use.
Takes up very little room so no need to feel guilty about hoarding rarely used gadgets.

One negative is that the Web calls it Vintage or Retro. Surely a gadget that still earns its keep after 30+ years  deserves better than that!!

Does anyone else have one?

My aubergines were looking healthy till a few days ago. First a big leaf on this plant started drooping and then a few more. I'm fairly sure they are suffering from  Verticillium wilt, or some form of wilt anyway, like my tomatoes do if not grafted. Some are still looking OK but it could be just a matter of time.

I had a look on the internet and came across this paper on grafting aubergine onto tomato rootstocks So I'll definitely give that a try next year. I'll try both submarine and Roma and see how they do (or not).

https://journals.ashs.org/hortsci/view/j...-p2058.xml

"With eggplant as scion and tomato as root stock, effects of eggplants/tomato grafting were studied. The results indicated that the grafting enhanced disease resistance significantly,promoted protential growth and increased yield, improved fruit quality to some extent as well."

My poorly Aubergine plant:

   

I’ve taken cuttings from this thing. Can you put a name to it for me please.

               

Have a lovely day