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Well, I lifted the most blighted of the potatoes, got a whole 100g from them. I’ve put cloches over the other two of the same variety, we’ll see what happens.

@thatguyoverthere If you want to non-direct sow peas, a length of guttering pipe is a common technique. When you come to plant them out, dig a shallow trench and slide the soil and plants out of the guttering and into the ground.

Or use rootrainers: deep individual modules.

@thatguyoverthere @jeffcliff https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/av/world-35524966

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@HebrideanHecate Not a problem I’ve ever had! Sun / water / poor soil would be my guesses. Is this new for existing plants? If so I’d get them some compost or similar organic matter added on.

@thor This isn’t the time to be thinking about this kind of long-term stuff. Get him sorted out then consider it later.

@Rogue_Koala Not a Blue Jay, just a Jay. Blue Jays are one of those North American things where they nicked our name for something vaguely similar.

They are lovely to see, though.

@thatguyoverthere Looks as though they like the new spot!

@thatguyoverthere @dave I used to do it if I happened to be at the supermarket at yellow sticker time and they were putting a load of short-dated cream out. Even then, I’m not sure it was financially worthwhile.

@thatguyoverthere @dave Stand mixer ftw!

@dave God, I’ve not made butter in years. Hmm.

@thatguyoverthere @FarmerLotus They’re great, but I did eventually move more towards Campbells in an attempt to slightly reduce the neuroticism.

@thatguyoverthere @FarmerLotus I had what was supposedly a Campbell that I hatched from a bought egg. I’m pretty sure dad was an appleyard who got into the wrong enclosure, because she was huge and much more duck-shaped than my runners or Campbells:

@thatguyoverthere I guess as long as they’re not in plastic they’ll be ok for a bit, but not for anything long-term.

@thatguyoverthere Great news! Definitely better with new potatoes to leave them on the plant, and old potatoes benefit from a week or two in the ground after you take the foliage off.

In the fridge, though?? Wtf?

@thatguyoverthere Your spuds were ready to lift, then?

@thatguyoverthere Do you get too hot for peas in summer?

I have a pea pod!

Also, a bird. I’m not going to say I’ve never seen a bird in the garden before (if only because there was a robin that popped in a few times when it was snowy), but it’s not at all common, so I’m inordinately excited: please come back often, bring your friends and eat bugs! Hopefully it will find the bird feeder: I shook a bit of seed onto the floor nearby to give it a hint.

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