Hi all,
I hope you are all well and that the garden has helped you through this nightmare of a year.
I had, during 2020 a contract job that took me away from most of my gardening, but since then a lot has changed.
I have been on my own for a good 15 years, by choice, and enjoyed that independence, but now I have met someone very dear to me and we are signing on the dotted line for a new, jointly owned property in a small Lincolnshire village.
We are expecting to move in a month or two. 
The house is a bungalow, with a massive garden (at least compared to my current one).
   
I am hoping to be around here more in the months to come!

For me personally, a well manicured lawn is the antithesis of a perfect garden and has no place in my weedy patch. A good thing too as my garden is just a pasture with dug bits

What wouldn't you give space to?

I would like to grow sunflowers but I don't have a lot of space to do that, but wondered if I could use them as supports for either peas or runner beans, but not sure if it would work or what would be the better option of the two to try it with
Or do you think that possibly I have come across a bad influence

Just interested what do you love the scent of and what turns your stomach ?

My likes are
Sweet pea
Narcissi 
Thyme 
Rosemary 
Mint (some of them)

My dislikes
Feverfew 
Fennel 
Dill
Coriander 
Water mint (really really horrible)

I am digging up loads of stones on my plot and wondered whether there were any good ideas of how to get rid of them or what I can use them for.
I will probably have about three of four wheelbarrow loads up til now with the number increasing as the days go by.

Going to move the window sill stuff into the allotment greenhouse(hence the G day) tomorrow as I can't wait any longer. I will put them on the greenhouse bench and build a frame around them which will be covered with thin opaque polystyrene (Laminate flooring underlay).
If I do perchance loose them, then so be it, I will have learned a lesson.

Hello Folks

I know this has been done before on other sites but I'd still like to know your thoughts.

So if I wanted larger fruit for particular recipes should I go with dedicated marrow or just let a few courgettes grow bigger?

French/Runner Beans twine around supports whereas peas like netting or summat to grab onto with their tendrils. What if that "summat" was a climbing bean?

In other words, can you think of a reason why I should, or shouldn't, grow beans and peas together on the same support?

Having successfully smoked some trout once in the wok, Mr PP has bought me a smoker! It is one of those ones with fuel burners underneath so can/should be used outside. It even has a thermometer. 

I'm happy with smoking fish, meat, cheese and tofu but wondered if anybody had smoked other things? Celeriac maybe?

Please share your ideas, recipes and photos

So, I am slowly going through my dahlia tubers - I started planting up a couple of weeks ago.
Some of the tubers I got from the dahlia farm last year were huge so I've been cutting them up. Not sure I can plant them all. Anyway - some I can't ID yet - the flowers were too far gone. Feel free to have a go ?maybe they will tell us who they are when they flower late Summer.

What varieties are you growing?