Mine are in a netting, moveable run, so no roof. I have a tempory arc that they use as a summerhouse (just 2 bits of fence hinged together, triangular ends fixed with string and cup-hook. OH made this so that I could 'creosote' the arc but I leave it in the run with one end off and the use it a lot ...

I was imagining that you used the cork as a stopper to shut it up at night!

You need to get into the habit of filling up your plate with fresh veggies (no sauce or butter on them) and eating lots of fruit to fill you up.

Spring cabbage is hard too.
Nothing about the growing, it's remembering to plant the seeds at the right time (you keep looking at the packet when sowing the others but it's too soon, then when you remember again it's too late).
We've got some coming on nicely this year. Shame I don't like cabbage.

Jim planted cabbage this year. The first head was not an easy crop, I had to spend a lot of time caterpiller squashing. And all twelve were ready just about together, so most split or were given away (one still waiting to be et) But I've done nothing to deserve the second crop except remembering not...

I've given up on summer cauli's, the caterpillers make a mess of them, but some years I grow winter ones, if you want a succession you have to buy lots of different packets of seeds (thought for another thread), plant them in spring, plant some more a few weeks later, and wait. And wait. And wait. T...

We never used to get our carrots to germinate before the plot was covered with a weed with leaves like the first leaves of a carrot seedling. For the last couple of years we had used screens for carrots, a fence of twigs and a strip of plastic woven in. And we've harvested carrots (after 35 years of...

I don't know anything about dogs (Wendy is the one for that).
Do you think the dog is jealous of the attention you are giving the newcomers?

Useless, and wasteful. Also spectacular and beautiful. You can understand why people with a 'big' event to celebrate (e.g. wedding) want them. Like the magic of Christmas Lights. And the Cathedrals who floodlight the marvelous architecture, thus hiding the glories of the night sky. Us greenies (and ...

Yes, the usual advice is to keep the in their house the first day. I have an arc with a small fixed run (inside a bigger, moveable netting run) so I put mine in the arc for a little while then opened the pophole so they could get to the small run, where the food and water were.

I put my grit in the bottom half of a 4 pint milk container. they don't care what the feeder are made of, you could try what you've got, and change if you need to. I've tried an ice cream tub as an extra water container, but that doesn't work, they tip it up or poo in it.

Wing clipping helps but is not infallible. As I said above, mine sometimes jump over. It didn't seem to make a difference if it was electric or not so I let my daughter use the energiser and battery and just have the netting now. If the netting wasn't there they'd gett very bold and wander everywher...

In our house it depends who washes up. OH does a lot of rinsing under running taps, and would if we had a dishwasher. And some people do a rinse cycle every time they put something in the dishwasher, to stop it getting smelly while waiting for it to fill up. Or do a wash before it's full, so thay's ...

But probably not after the kids had played football with it.

fortunately there's usually something succeeds each year.