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I don't think your selfish. I'm itching to get back to work myself, believe me. But currently still stuck in hospital awaiting results.
I'm hoping to be discharged today so fingers crossed all will return to normal at some point tomorrow but I can't guarantee that yet.
Sam x

Hi Arrowmunda, I have never tried either eating or growing Pumpkins, so perhaps I will give them a try in the future.

My plan is to grow one new, to me, Veg each year.
Next year's will be Salsify.

Hi, would you trade for some Milk Man by One Hit Wounder, also in 6mg.

Well I have just sorted my first failure.

I originally copied a compost bin design that I got on the Internet. This was built by a guy in the US of A and it looked exactly what I wanted.


Sure, my joinery skills are rubbish, but it all seemed to work okay. However a couple of months down the line and my compost was staying very cold, but also drying out and vegetable matter does not rot down if it is cold and dry.
So I was having to water it every couple of days which in turn was making it even colder.

So another search on the Internet showed that 90% of UK compost bins were solid wall affairs and so I have spent the past week, stripping off the spars and redoing the bins with solid walls.


In between times I have planted 75 Onion Sets of which 41 have green shoots. If I can get 52 to grow, that will do me all of next year.
I have also planted 30 winter flowering Pansies to give us a bit of colour through an otherwise drab winter.

On order to be delivered over the next few months are Roses, Potatoes, Raspberries, Rhubarb and Tayberries. These are all year old plants.

Bedtime reading is now Seed Catalogues and Veggy growing magazines.

How sad am I?????