2025 - Good morning, afternoon and good night!

Nope - but I have given her a couple of rugs after her dog dug a hole in the middle of the carpet.

............it was probably looking for it's prawn dinner!

Well was woke up this morning by an unwanted dawn chorus. A chiffchaff seems to have taken up residence outside the window and the dulcet tone of a wood pigeon says were coming to get you.

I'v3 found some odd things in the garden but never something like this! https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cy8nk279ydyo

I'v3 found some odd things in the garden but never something like this! https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cy8nk279ydyo

One way to get deliveries I suppose 

Warm and sunny this morning. I went to Ireland for just over a week recently and travelled round a bit by car. Drove about 700 miles on motorways, A roads and country lanes - and didn't see one pothole.

Good evening all, I came across this on the BBC about a reduced harvest of peas this year:

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c9dg2ll5172o

My harvest was only minimally reduced and I still have to collect the dried peas when they are ready though mainly for planting next year.

I wonder what other crops may be suffering? I know winter cereals were suffering round these parts.

Its a been a very odd year, weather-wise - and probably a sign of what the future holds. Hope this article doesn't spark panic buying with shoppers emptying the freezer cabinets of peas - not that I often buy them. Frozen peas are low on my list of desirable veg.

Random question. Can anyone remember what spud varieties I grew last year?

For some unknown reason I don’t seem to of made a note of it in any of the usual places. I’m fairly sure I’d of bored you lot with the information at some point   .

Were they "funny" ones - blue/purple?

This year we’re growing 3 seed Maris peer, 3 seed sunset & 6 seed blue annelise in potato bags. 25kg of sarpo Mira anywhere there’s a mound of earth on the new plot ( the big heap that will eventually go into raised beds asa base layer, and all the heaps dug out of trenches). And 1 seed of everything else on the list will also go into potato bags they’ll be in mixed varieties. Because I have no idea which is which.



I’ll be back in a minute to ask stupid questions   

This is what you grew in 2023.