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Think I know it - I am in Garnant near Brynamman.
Nice to know where people are of similar interests.

Where abouts are you in south Wales then?

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I notice you are from Wales - where abouts in the beautiful place are you from?#
Hello by the way.

I got my seedlings going in the greenhouse and how sad am I - I went in the other day to find a cabbage white butterfly caught in a spiders web in the greenhouse. i couldn't bring myself to kill it so had to help it free and let it go - it probably thanked me by promptly layings its bl**dy eggs on m...

my cabbage plants I transplanted to the veg plot are looking sorry for themselves as the cabbage white butterflies took a shine to them and i now have caterpillers on them. I look the leaves over and no caterpillers come down the next day and yet more holes in the leaves. I pick off the odd caterpil...

I have started freezing my blackberries now so I can make lovely summer puddings in the winter - hehe simple things please simple minds. plus I like to make jam and my apples aren't ready yet - I make blackberry and apple jam in my bread maker and it works lovely and hardly any mess and so easy. i a...

Wulf - now you are making me go green - with envy - lovely red toms indeed you little show off! :mrgreen: As we are finally having some lovely days my two orangy red fellows are slowly becoming redder - yippee. And mine are in a greenhouse too so heres hoping they will encourage their buddies to als...

I am regularly changing the banana skins and hooray I have two toms starting to blush. but as I have 11 plants only 2 reds ones still means a hell of a lot of green chutney. I am now crossing everything that it is comfortable to cross and hoping that the rest will play follow my leader and go red. :...

Well I hung a banana skin in each tom plant a few days ago and I still have green toms but now I also have mankey banana skins! I have changed one but still no red toms. not sure this is working for me - I can feel green chutney coming on.

I have a few acres of land and alot of blackberry hedgerow. Which as no one else goes on my land I get to pick it all. However, this year they seem to be very slow and small. But too my delight I have found down the side of my house a row of blackberries that are huge and ready to pick. We only move...

Only a couple of mine flowered but I dug them up anyway and altho I had some good sized ones some were tiny. I would wait if you can. I wanted room for something else.

I did remove the leaves about 10 days ago - I have always done this. I understand it encourages growth to new areas, stops plant feeding leaves that aren't really required and allows sun to toms. But as you can guess the toms are still green!

According to my magazine BBC Gardeners World roadshow on Friday 19th August is at St Anne's in Nottingham. It is the country's largest and oldest allotment site - 70 acres. They talk to a 76 year old man who had 9 allotments - altho now he only has 4. (Good on that man) :lol: . Sorry not sure what t...

Oh I don't feel so bad now - I will continue happily waiting for red then. My brother-in-law was here at the weekend (from Portsmouth) and said they'd been eatting his toms since early July. I know he lives down south and I am sure he planted early in a heated greenhouse etc but I just felt ooooh de...