I've just collected about a ton of compost. A local guy keeps horses and offered it free. It's well rotted, actuallly he had a few piles on the go.some steaming hugely!

I've just got back and having a coffee and a break.
Now would you test this before adding anywhere? It's still in bags at the moment.

Is it worth starting a bean off in some in the prop?Not heard much about it recently. Am I being a bit cautious?

Just wondering what people think is the right time to plant onion sets out, I’m tempted to put some in a covered outdoor raised bed like this     

Look forward to your comments

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-...E29X_XDucM

Weirdest story I have read today!

So, I know allotments are based on "poles" though haven't a clue how many

I have a large garden but I always go back to my greenhouse area. I don't really care what it
looks like. It does get in a bit of a mess at times but it's where I enjoy myself most.

Now I'm busy planning seed sowing and I know what I want to grow won't fit  so I think I will dig up the patch that I let go a few years ago. I think flower growing is easier than digging up spuds? I maybe wrong but I do have more time to myself now the boys are mostly away from home.

So the area by the side of my greenhouse is 30ft x x30ft?  The area by the second greenhouse is 16ftx30. Though I do have the garden itself which has some serious big borders.... 


So, how big is your garden, veg plot or whatever you tend?

This is an evergreen ground cover plant:

       

I thought it might be a periwinkle, but I waited all year for it to flower, it never did.

Any ideas, anyone?

Is this a flowering currant? which is currently (sic) in full bloom. If so, I want one for my garden as it would cheer me up no end when not much else is flowering.

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I love my Sunday dinner whether it be a roast or not, but alays a little bit special. I was brought up in an age that when you walked up the street on a Sunday lunchtime you could see steam bellowing from kitchen windows and all the aroma's  from the different meats people were having. Sunday dinner was always between 12 and 2.00 so was what people nowadays call 'lunch'.

None of my offspring bother with Sunday dinners as a rule and even if they do, they go out to lunch. The smells in the street are gone and it appears Sunday dinners are just a memory.
Not in this house though! As long as I am able I will always make a Sunday dinner (even if most of the time it is for me only).

LONG LIVE THE SUNDAY DINNER!

As they say, every day's a school day. A new word for me  Forb

I'm sure you horticulturists will know the word, but it was new to me today

advice if poss please.
I’ve got a golden leaved philadelphus that has been in the same spot since we moved here about twenty years ago. It’s cut to “tidiness” every year so is kept to about five feet tall. Problem is that just as it starts to look (and smell) amazing, the sun comes out and scorches all the leaves. Have finally decided that I have to take a chance and try to move it to a shady corner. (If it dies, then I’m afraid that’s just too bad as the sunburnt bush is a real eyesore - and I’ve put up with it for twenty years.)
Now the question...... I have bought two new small philadelphus plants (Snowbelle and Manteau d’Hermine). These are green leaved rather than golden. Are they likely to get burnt too does any one know? I was hoping that green leaves would stand up to sunshine so that I could plant them in the same place.
Phew!!

I'm looking in to this as a way of processing our kitchen waste. We are adjacent to farm land and I try to avoid putting food in to compost bins as it attracts vermin. 
Has anyone tried a bokashi bin? After its done its thing could I add it to compost without any worry re attracting my long tailed friends?