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Right on cue it has struck, feeling absolutely crap and just wanting to lie down with a bottle of 'festive spirit' but there's no chance will be running around like an idiot until Christmas lunch. any fellow sufferers out there?

New one on me, thought it was just a noisy truck going past, then went to top up the bird feeders and heard a pretty big crack of thunder. Started off with normal thundery type rain then heavy, small flakes, can't remember seeing this before in my 60yrs. Interesting. Guess we won't be laying...

any of our weather geeks give us some real info on this instead of the blx in the papers?

OK taken a mad turn and going to at least try to grow some cauli this year, collars didn't do a lot of good last time I used them, have them loosely covered in frost mesh for now anything else I can try? I was looking around a garden centre at the weekend and saw that the 'veg specific' bug...

I've finally cleared enough ground to start putting in some raised beds and came across some 'spare' boards that will do the job while mooching round my son's yard. Does 12' x 4' sound about right for the beds? The boards are 16' long so I'd be able to get one bed from 2 boards I think...

Dumped the trailer load of old sheep-muck on a slightly elevated area at the far end of the swamp yesterday morning. Found a surprising number of the little devils all through it this morning while I was making a start on filling the tomato planters. Really surprised at just how quickly they've...

Not sure if this is the right section but here goes. I reckon the hedge was planted around the same time as the house was built in the 1830s. over the years it seems to have been neglected apart from a trim every few years and is now around 20-25' high with a top heavy, wide and very tangled...

I've found a handy table for optimal pH for various veg (some of which have surprised me) but am having difficulty find a similar sheet for nutrients including trace elements rather than trawling through every flipping veg I plan to grow. As I have opted to grow everything in containers and can...

Just took delivery of bulbs/cloves for the coming season from The Garlic Farm(y). The 9 cloves of Wight Early Purple went straight into the planters. Pack included 12 cloves of Elephant garlic, they're HUGE :nailbiting:

This has been my first year of 'proper gardening, where I've had a clue what I'm doing (getting a distinction in crop production at college 30yrs ago doesn't really count) Have had very varied germination of seeds this year form close to 100% to practically 0. Changing variety (new pack of...

OK wrong time of year to be asking but am planning for next year. Have been a bit disappointed with my spring onions this year and am looking suggestions for next year's varieties. I prefer a more pencil like variety does anyone have experience of 'Parade' or Guardsman?

Anyone else found/finding it a real problem this year?

first year trying to grow them Have 2 Money Maker, 2 Ailsa Craig and 2 Shirley Money Maker have a lot of nice looking fruit on Ailsa Craig have a lot of monstrous (huge and ugly) looking things on them Shirley have a few nice looking smaller fruit on them BUT THE BLOODY THINGS ARE REFUSING...

I may be missing something but I've been reading through the brochure for the latest 66 series and came across the following 'benefit' "Brake to neutral feature disconnects transmission when brake pedal is pressed" Imagine going down a steep slope, side loading silage, getting close to the max...

Son treated his sheep with crovect but they're still being bothered. Any recommendations for an effective treatment, he's getting them to sponge them on Monday so he'll treat them at the same time.

Just at the :scratchhead: stage about the practicality of a couple of small solar panels to power a short electric fence round a chicken run and lighting in my polytunnel & shed without the need to lay mains cables all over the place. I'm thinking along the lines of a couple of panels hooked up...

any ideas?