I am always too hungry for anything at all fancy by the time I get round to preparing dinner.

I've not kept hens for a while. But I agree about needing to fox proof. Are the avian flu regulations still in force.

Politics is all about the short term. Especially with our First Past the Post system.
We need long term thinking but won't get it.

My Czar plums were all picked a week or so ago. Had to pick them under-ripe as the wasps were feasting. Now starting on the Victoria. And the few greengages. The greengages tend to split before they are ripe, then rot. My greengage tree fell over a few years back, I pruned out the trailing branches ...

It's ages since I grew them, but t he RHS says they need plenty of water . But avoid splashing the leaves as they may rot. So you were both right. It suggests a sunken flower pot to get water to the roots (but that would be up to the person who planted them). I remember my Grandad grew marrows on hi...

I've had a couple of pickings of runner beans. Went out yesterday to pick some blackcurrants for the bring & buy at our dance club (i have enough in the freezer for more than one year), but the blackbirds have been enjoying them.

Is the sumac the same as the shrub that gives good autumn colour in the garden.
Spreads from runners, if one house has it all the neighbours do to.

Once again I'm late thinning the plums because the soft fruit needed picking. I thought the Victoria wasn't too overcrowded - until i started on it.

My pears have no fruit for the second year in a row, and despite blossom, my apple trees look grim with curled leaves. My pears have hardly any fruit this year. And the Conference too. There are a few but not many at all. The weather has a lot to do with whether you get fruit or not on trees - they...

My pears have hardly any fruit this year, usually the Packhams is overloaded (most of them have a 'pear drop' taste that takes the skin off my teeth though a few ripen nice and juicy, but they are good for crumbles). And the Conference too (all ripen at once so most of them are also stewed and froze...

I remember my grandma grew geraniums, think she kept them under the bed in winter.

Soft fruit picking continues - damply. Not many rasp, that part of the garden has been under water the past few winters so not really surprised. I'm getting a few to nibble but none to freeze. If i can fight my way to the end of the garden I might find some wild ones.

Maybe some courgettes will come your way.
I've given up sowing runner beans as someone at our dance club sells plants on our charity B&B. Mine are flowering well.

Not sure.
Similar argument with archaeologists and property developers. Then the is the graveyard at Whitby that is falling into the sea.
But I did think there was a lot of trouble and expense to look for people who knowingly took a risk.

The fruit is on the drive. I'm used to birds taking my soft fruit and knocking whole gooseberries off but never found hollow fruit before. It was just seeing the squirrel running ahead of me up the drive that made me suspect it.