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It sounds just like my kind of veg... Except that my garden is a bit small for it. Must try and get some seed for my friend with the big garden.

Sorry, blackbirds are feral pests competing with our native birds for food and space around here. Like parakeets here. I actually thought they hadn't got as far as Scotland yet - and just now I saw this on BBC: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/av/uk-scotland-47911101/wild-parakeet-flock-causes-a-flap-in-...

I don't suppose any of you know what varieties strawberries (plants, of course!) Lidl were selling? I bought a pack, to be shared with my friend, just to have a different variety, and now we can't remember what that was. Binned the pack, of course... (They only had three varieties - I'd probably rem...

My goodness!

Wow - congratulations! I keep meaning to get myself a rain gauge...

The babies have hatched! If I was any better with my camera, I'd get some photos...

Cold and raining here.... And it has been since yesterday. While I welcome the rain, I wish it would do that when I'm at work - so much to do in the garden!

I have a few spare ones that you could have...

Not had all that much here, either...

Update! Madam is still alive and well, and now has the only nesting place with room service. Food seems to be appreciated... :mrgreen: Laptop is back at home, and also alive and well. Clogged up with dust, and this particular type seems to be prone to overheating anyway. And I found the cat after th...

Some people use tires...

Hiya!

Madam Blackbird decided that an old bit of shelving in a corner of my garden was the perfect place for sitting on a nest. Only about half a meter above ground - open on two sides - in a garden that's used as passage between other gardens by quite a few cats. Now I am having to think up a way of maki...

Hiya - and welcome!

Right now I feel like I need a degree in horticulture... There is so much information and so many things to consider, I don´t really know where to start. I know - you can have too much information! Start small. A degree in horticulture doesn't guarantee that you are a perfect grower... I have a deg...