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Just for a minute I thought that Odsox had been visited by his regular window cleaner - oh is that the rain then?

We've not had enough rain to wash the windows up here in May. But it's good to see that the greenhouse stood the first test.

So come on - tell us more, tell us more. How's things going and what you've been eating ....

It would be sad to see such an excellent greenhouse doing a kite act. Fingers crossed.

At least no total loss as you have compost even if things didn't work out as you wanted.

Hmm well yes. Step father's family were farmers mostly so the wartime rations looked a bit different. But swapping went on. My earliest memories before mother married step father were of cut down dresses for me, unravelled knitting wool for toys, cut down items for the doll's cot. Mum's mum had a wa...

Erm - I thought that the Romans bought it over and cultivated it as a laxative.

My courgettes will stay on the window ledge for now along with the pumpkins and butternut squash. This week is not the week to let things out looking at the forecast. There's a definite wind chill effect.

Sorted out the neighbour with the rusty saw, found a wooden handled set of loppers which seem to be doing the job and which aren't likely to go rusty at least on the handles. And are the correct implement for what she wants to do. Funny but coming from two generations of gardeners, she has forgotten...

I have a new next door neighbour (well if a month or 2.5 is new) who has decided to take the garden in hand. She wants to lower the back hedge. She went back to the house she moved out of (now taken over by her son) to look in the shed for a saw to work on the hedge. It was a foot deep in rust havin...

You know, I've quite grown into this lock down thing. I don't think I'll be getting out and about much even when and if ever they extend the rules for the over 70s. It's quite an education in being self sufficient in time management! I know that there are thousands of suggestions as to what you can ...

Odsox, how many years do we have to follow the saga of the F1 tomato? Could be interesting as a scientific experiment.

The one problem with seed saving is that if you start with F1 seeds, you really have no idea what you are going to get next season. "They" said that F1 seeds were to produce an improvement on the heritage varieties which don't produce well enough for modern requirements. "They" don't mention that he...

The amount of hard labour being undertaken during the present lock down type situation is amazing. Big projects like this are popping up all over the forums I visit. I wonder how many half done projects will be left though if and when things loosen up. And the consequences of having to look at half ...

You realise that you aren't the only people with no rain? We've had nothing but a drying easterly wind for weeks and weeks. And weeks and weeks. So at the moment the only thing that would survive here is something from a dessert used to dry, sunny and cold windy weather. Great for growing vegetables...

Talk about a change of lifestyle for some


How have the Covid19 restrictions affected us? Well I doubt that we will have the same problems - will we?