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Decided to leave our sunflowers outside, that old saying "what doesn't kill you makes you stronger" springs to mind, so if they make it through the battering the garden is taking at the moment they they will have earned their place in the garden. I'm not overly inclined to harvest and shell sunflower seeds (currently my thinking, may change in the future) and therefore refuse to get…

Good old Wilkos. Picked up some garden stuff. Leah spotted the last redcurrant cane, which we snapped up. I've mostly stayed away from their plants as they usually look quite ropey but this was a good looking plant with quite a bit of growth on it. I don't get it that you go into shops and they don't look after the plants, they must have someone working there who is a gardener and can spot when plants need watering. It's like when I go in Hobbycraft, alot of the staff don't really know much…

Last year, when I grew peas from a grow bag, I used some pea netting. Horrible stuff! I tried to unravel it and then drape it over the frame I had fashioned out of canes in a way that might suggest I knew what I was doing. It was horrible and the peas didn't…