I just had to share....sons chillies growing in his student house. The ones with fruits was left to its own devices over xmas

You may be able to spy his new ones started off in a broken kettle  to the left? 

Well on his way to having green fingers. #proud Mum
   

Morning Folks

Has anyone sown 2 seeds per cell?

Real Seeds have just posted on FB:-

NEWS RELEASE  We are proud to announce our "SeedID" plugin for Google Lens that allows anyone with a smartphone to identify vegetable seeds. Using an algorithm developed by professor T. Sing-Yu of the Prophytobotanical Institute, this heuristically matches images to variety names , & it allows us to offer for the first time mixed packets of seeds. Just whip out your phone, start Google Lens, point it at the seeds, and the neurally-trained cloud-computing recognition system does the rest.

          

Didn't know whether to post this in Veg or Flowers but, we're here now.

Many years ago, on Madeira island, I ate some lupini (lupin seeds). It was a festival of some sort, and the celebrants were giving handfuls of these seeds to all and sundry (including me). I didn't have a clue what they were and it took a bit of research to find out.!
Last year, when I saw that Real Seeds were selling them, I bought a packet. https://www.realseeds.co.uk/lupins.html
Didn't get round to sowing them then but, they're staring at me now. However, having had a DuckDuck, I'm not quite so enthusiastic. Garden Organic are a bit underwhelmed by them. https://www.gardenorganic.org.uk/edible-lupins

Has anyone tried these things? All contributions welcome.

My little 1 year old asparagus are doing so well. Even though they’re still very small and 2 or 3 years from harvest. They’re producing better then my 5 year olds .

               


Last photo focused on the back ones but you get the idea.

I want to plant some onions but apart from planting where I have leeks at present, the only other bed I have is where I will be growing peas and beans which apparently are not compatible together, if I split my bed into three section  by growing brasicas in the middle section would that act as a barrier between the onions and the legumes, the bed is 10feet long by 9feet wide and not walked on,  so no need for paths

Whenever I make a cake. Which isn’t that often. I never have the right size tin, not ever! It’s infuriating. 
Anyone suffer from this?

I was looking for the predicted last frost date in our area and found this site

Interactive map of  last frost dates

I was really surprised at the differences in areas.  I'm always amazed at how Veggie can transplant tenders well before me, now I know why, her area is a month different to mine.  It's not fair

I’m being very nosy again! You’ll never guess why   
So what are your top 3 flowering plants? Why those ? Are they shrub, climber, annual, perennial? What size? How fast does it grow? How much care is needed? What conditions does it seem to like? 

I know I’ve done a similar thread a while ago “how do you choose “. The more I ask, the more you lot will teach me about plants. I need to learn fairly quickly. I’ve got a lot of ground to fill   . 

My top 3 
Lupin - I like these because lots of different colours, big bold shaped leaves & flower spikes. Perennial. Very little care needed. 
Sweet pea -I like these because lots of colours, beautifully scented. Annual. They seem quite happy just to do there own thing for the summer. 
Snapdragon -I like these because of childhood memories. lots of colours & sizes of these. Annual/ perennial? Some come back, some don’t . They seem happy they grow ( you see, I can’t answer my own questions properly    ). 
Think I’ve just worked out , I quite like not knowing what colour the flowers are until they open     .

Vinny is on a diet called OMAD - One Meal A Day.

I'm going on the NOMAD Diet
It stands for....Not One Meal A Day......... but, also a Nomad is someone who wanders from place to place, gathering food, they're Hunter gatherers and have no fixed abode. I feel like that, as I wander around the garden, picking and foraging. 
Now that spring has arrived, and there is more to "forage" I'm going to try finding some of my midday meal in the garden and eating it outdoors in my unfixed abode (the garden table).

Anyone else want to be a NOMAD?