Amazing Still life photos - some look like works of art. https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/in-pictures-54546497
Maybe it will inspire your photo entries for next year's Harvest Festival.

Got a few of these growing along the burn at the plot.

   

   

Own up - don't be embarrassed.

Are there any words that make you laugh? Perhaps they trigger a memory of something funny or they sound silly when you say them. 
Please share as I don't want to be the only Nutter on here. 

At the mooment I can't say "Moo cow" without giggling..............I can't even write it, because it sets me off giggling again. My eyes have started to leak as I think of it.

Its quite a recent thing from a phone call to my brother. I'd bought some milk for my Mum and my brother asked me if it was organic - I told him I didn't know but it had a Moo cow on the label - then I started laughing and it wasn't helped when he asked me how old I was, was I 6!!

Please, if you ever meet me or call me don't make me say the M word. 

 Hodmedod's sell UK grown beans, peas and grains and some other stuff for eating. Can't see any reason why they couldn't be used for growing as well as cooking.  Sow some, eat the rest. 
Some of their products aren't viable - like the split peas and the tins of beans  but most of this Big box should be:-

https://hodmedods.co.uk/products/big-box-pulses


FULL CONTENTS
Hodmedod's Big Box of Pulses contains our full current range of British pulses and quinoa:

• Whole Fava Beans - 500g pack
  Britain's original bean
  
• Organic Split Fava Beans - 500g packs
  Delicious and easy to cook with no need to soak
  
• Red Haricot Beans - 500g pack
  Beautiful small red beans
  
• Organic "Black Badger" Carlin Peas - 500g
  A great alternative to chickpeas
  
• "Red Fox" Carlin Peas - 500g
  A lighter coloured carlin pea
  
• Organic Marrowfat Peas - 500g
  Perfect for mushy peas and much more
  
• Whole Yellow Peas - 500g
  A wonderful addition to curries
  
• Whole Blue Peas - 500g
  Tasty peas with plenty of bite
  
• Split Yellow Peas - 500g
  
• Organic Split Green Peas - 500g
  Ideal for London Particular Soup
  
• White Quinoa - 500g
  Delicously nutty and light
  

   

Last time this orchid flowered it did the same.

I repotted in fresh compost, standing up in the middle of the pot and quite well down in the compost I thought but it has done it again. Moved over to the side of the pot and come quite far out of the compost. The flower is nearly on the floor when stood on a low coffee table.

Has anyone and suggestions how to keep it firmly in the centre of the pot with its roots in the compost?

If like me, you sell stuff on ebay here is a handy tool that could make you think twice about the price you are listing stuff at!

https://www.ebayfeescalculator.com/uk-ebay-calculator/

I am using it for my listings for stuff from now on and if I can only make a pittance in profit, the item gets binned (mainly books) or better still becomes woodburner fuel.

Do any of you grow beans in the same place each year?
I'd hopefully like to grow them up the greenhouse frame again next year.

   

I harvested this Sharks Fin Melon three years ago and it appears to be as good today as it was then. The Dr Pepper can is for scale only.

If I was to cut into the melon, do you reckon the seeds would still be usable for sowing next spring? I think its a thing of beauty and am reluctant to cut into it without a strong possibility that the seeds would be fertile.

I've often thought about sowing annual mimulus but then read that it likes damp conditions and discounted it because I'm on stony flinty dry soil.  Now my pal who does not garden has a couple of pots of yellow and orange mimulus on her quite sheltered patio that she says come back every year.  When I asked if she did anything special with them she just looked at me quizzically and asked 'like what?'  So she gave me a small root of each and they are now filling 8" pots in the GH.  Common sense says they'll be ok in there over winter without much attention,  what's your opinion?   Are there different  varieties, i.e. annual and perennial?

Hi all,

I lost a small earring yesterday - potentially while forking over the lawn to prep it for turf. We are hoping to borrow or hire a metal detector to look for it, despite the unlikelihood of finding it, as it's important to me. I'm wondering if anyone has any experience of metal detectors and could provide any advice (what I'd need to find a small stud earring made of white gold, technique, etc).

Thanks very much,
mopeyjonah