Gardeners' World 8:30pm-9:00pm

you know the winter is over when this comes back on

Potatoes , Garlic and red onions already out in the garden.

Apple , pear , plum trees and whiteberry all waking up , with strawberries & pineberries growing under them.

Bought a hundred crocus last autumn, looked superb today opened in the sunshine.

A Cat dug my Garlic up to have a great big s*#:t in one of my raised beds I dug a border over yesterday and there was more cat s*#:t. And this morning there was a nice tidy portion on my lawn

thought cats hated garlic?

so maybe the cat had a huge dump in your raised bed as a payback for planting the garlic?

I don't know what they dislike to be honest, i wish i did   This wasn't long after i put the cloves in the bed, before any signs of shoots IIRC.

It wasn't hard to spot, the soil was nice flat and level when the cloves went in, and then there was a mound in the middle of it

Garlic and onions planted a couple of weeks ago

worth adding that I still have onion and garlic left over from last year

Amazed how much tastier stuff is that you grow at home

I always treat garlic as a catch crop by planting in September where potatoes have been dug. The garlic is harvested in June in time to plant beans on the same plot. I dug some fresh garlic today. The plants are like spring onions and have a nice fresh taste in stir fries.

to deter cats plant rue*

Nature: Warm and dry in the third degree.
Optimum: That which is grown near a fig tree.
Usefulness: It sharpens the eyesight and dissipates flatulence.
Dangers: It augments the sperm and dampens the desire for coitus.
Neutralization of the Dangers: With foods that multiply the sperm.

I'm not gonna bother this year but bought chilli seeds yesterday

6 or 8 raised beds would be enough for me to handle but I'm still 10 years on the council waiting list

I purchased some of those sonic deterrents for my mother last year that you spike in the garden, they actually seem to work.

B-B ... doesn't your mother come round any more?

And as seriously, used to like the programme (still do I suppose) but what's going on a jolly at licence payers' expense to look at plants in South Africa ... I'm sure thay have equally nice plants in Iraq or Syria as well ... got to do with gardening in the UK?

good one