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My god, what do you grow in summer?!

Yes but how much wind does he get in his living room? Unless he eats lots of beans!

My coriander got big and bushy very quickly and we ate lots of Asian food then all of as sudden it has started going to seed. There's still pickings on it and I've never seen it grow so big before. Luckily I have already sown two more lots since then, but really it seems it is only good for picking ...

I was lucky to find some rhubarb plants here hidden in an overgrown patch of weeds. I transplanted them (and divided some of them) to the veg patch in about late March. They are getting enormous (I hadn't realised how big it grew!) but I'm wondering if I really need to wait until next year before I ...

Exams? What are they?

Finished my last ones about 26 years ago!

What are you studying, Andy?

I've Googled it too to read about it. Sounds very expensive and where do you get peat moss from? Isn't that a bad thing to use like peat? I also don't think that a layer of newspaper and some layers of compost on top is going to keep out a lot of perennial weeds. I have seen them grow through all so...

Hi Green girl - better do some more translation! I love the richness of our language :mrgreen: Most people think of thongs these days as G-strings!!!!! I keep telling them they are flip flops but they just don't believe me and think it is something in the skimpy underwear department. Back to the ser...

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Er, is this something to do with the spaghetti tree?

So have you named them yet?

My three are Boccy (cos the first day she was the only one to make a noise - boc boc boc... ), Lady (ladybird, lay lady lay - geddit?) and Little Ginge(r) (she's little and a red hen). They all got named the first day.

Tee hee - on your behalf I'll explain to the folk who don't know what you mean - in the UK bindi is okra - it's an Indian word and as we have so many Indian restaurants everyone knows what bindi bhaji is. However, in Australia these are nasty thorny things that grow in the grass! Couldn't you wear s...

MMM, I clean the floor on me knees with a cloth as well. Like you, this is not often, but with kids around dragging in the dirt, it's a must. I thought I was the only looney to do that! But I reckon it's better to do it less often but thoroughly - and I do the skirtings and the cobwebs under the ki...

I have nibbled nasturtium but never really fancied putting it in a salad because it is always covered in black fly! (yes I know, wash it first, but....yuk!)

I will have to go back to my veggy book on that - I may have got that mixed up as I remember reading something about if you had had blight to cut the vegetation off...... or something like that!

Thanks guys. I thought that they must germinate at the same time because the ones in the farmers field did (and he doesn't have any gaps as far as I can see)! I only planted one seed per hole because there were so few in the packet I could not afford to waste any.