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varieties or smaller packets; which is good since most people don't need the 500 or so seeds in lettuce and carrot packets.  I think in this time of cut backs osteritys etc weather you buy cheap seeds whatever the need to sow and grow will always remain

I dug up some carrots in my garden today which I planted in the autum. One was fanged,two were fine - very long and very orange, the other one looks like it had other roots forming and it looks very dry. Is it alright? I potted on three courgette

I say let the birds eat the berries. Birds add so much to the garden. In fact I think I'll grow some blackberries just for the birds next year in my garden. This year has been great for young ones in my garden ive had sparrows,blue tits,great tits

and I paced too and froMulching the nettles where new grass would growI day dreamed of straight cuts looking so niceThat the gardening experts would call for adviceWhen all of a sudden with a deafening soundPieces of engine fell to the ground

but they are still growing up the nets, beetroot great and carrot, leek and parsnip seedlings growing well. sprouting broc also growing well.... I live in North Wales                                Some more pictures of my garden, and greenhouse. Lovely photos

Suddenly it feels pressurising. Mid April, its warming up, scores and scores of perennials in,pots, the urgent need to get runner beans sown, carrots sown, Beetroot, lettuce, pot on fast growing summer stuff, start watering greenhouse plants

first attempt at growing garlic) when they were all rather small, though tasty. One odd thing is that two of the smaller bulbs haven't split into cloves - they're just little globes a bit smaller than a ping pong ball - even though they've had exactly

the Cabbage White butterflies off!Runner Beans, Broad Beans, Carrots, Parsnips, Raspberries and Strawberries are all doing well. My first batch of peas failed but not being one to give up and to learn from my mistakes the second batch is growing well. To make

I have substituted marrow this summer for carrot and celery in chicken soup with rice - it adds this really delicious, subtle top note when it's been cooked in homemade stock. Once you stop expecting marrow to taste like courgette, and accept

://ryans-garden.blogspot.com) Just a word of warning - if you're growing carrots, get rid of the cow parsley - as far as I know it attracts the blighters. Hurrah - when I saw you'd posted on this, I immediately thought 'Cow Mumble', so it's great to see you've linked to HM's post