One terrific plant

What I want everyone to do right now after reading this, is to go out into your garden and make sure that you've got enough DANDELIONS, if not plant some roots as quickly as possible.What a plant not only does it contribute to a salad, it makes great coffee,and many numerous uses in our lives, I haven't got the space to mention them all here,oh alright I'll mention 2 more of my favourites,its roots make a plant tonic eqiualent to comfrey so if you don't want the roots for a coffee give it to your plants (potassium feed) and yes the plant flower is good for bees,moths,butterflies looking for early nectar. HELP THE WILDLIFE, HELP YOUSELF,GET THE DANDELION DUDES!!!!!

A helping hand from Nature

A season or two ago I planted at the bottom of the garden an apple tree, raspberry canes and a gooseberry bush and while I did not neglect them I could have given them more, anyway Nature comes along with her helping hand and says here are your plants time for you to look after them and healthier plants you would not find any where. The raspberries will fruit this year and the canes for next yeat are just showing through.

Radish Box

We used these window boxes no not on the window sill but on a patch of ground at the back of the garden, the radish seem happy again these need to be grown quickly plenty of feed/water they are covered at night at the moment with a cloche. In the second photo I have put nettles around them to protect from slugs and the nettle work in another way by rotting into the compost/soil adding nitrogen and humus, fantastic plant the nettle.

Bags of Spuds (we hope)

This is one of our potato bags and you can see the potato haulm just popping through so it's time to add more compost. I had success growing spuds using this growing method last year so try it again. Using this method you have to water the potatoes more than we would if they were in the ground but hey when you're short of ground you improvise and if you don't sow you will not reap.