The vegetable garden in July

Fantastic. Garden looks very good. I hope to pick broad beans within the week too.

Thanks Cinderella…

Everything looks so lush MG, but I think its been a bit damper your neck of the woods hasn't it, sorry I missed the story of the "killer tree" but everything seems to have recovered brilliantly!

Hi Dido yes we have had a lot more rain than you guys, fortunately as we prefer not to water. Recently it has been hot and windy which rather dried things out but today is cool and wet and the ground is soaking up the moisture.

Fantastic, it is so good to see people being a bit self sufficient rather than just relying on the supermarket. If I had enough room, I would plant some fruit and vegetables.

As well as being cheaper, I find that fruit and veg grown in your garden always tastes better. Win, win situation.

Alex our garden is all alpines and woodland plants. We use parts of two neighbours garden for the fruit and veg. We even have the use of a small greenhouse just for the tomato plants. I firmly believe in growing your own food. Back in the mid 1970s we were pretty much self sufficient, we had a 3 acre croft and in addition to growing all the veg. had goats, pigs that we reared from weaner's, orphan lambs and hens. Our food bill was pretty small... We made hay for the goats and grew oats that we fed them in the sheaf, along with huge neeps. The lambs and pigs were killed come autumn, butchered by me and put into a big chest freezer along with all the excess veg. It 'was' a huge freezer!

Now that the tree has gone are there any benefits from its going?

Yes more light into the veggie garden... and more air moving through.

Its an ill wind then!

Yup...

Great crops Mg. It has all recovered well. I know I have mentioned it before but I still cannot get in to the SRGC site. It just keeps on saying it is forbidden. I have tried using provided links from nurseries to no avail. I was away whenGardeningScotland was on so missed out this year but it did mean I was able to visit Spritzhenry on one of her Open days.

Scotsgran there is no part of the site than needs a log in, unless you join the forum here is the link

http://www.srgc.org.uk/

or just type Scottish Rock Garden Club in your web browser

Thank you Mg. Now it is back to telling me there is a problem or it is down for maintenance. I will try the link again later. But I have been having no luck at all in getting on to the site since we last discussed it.

Totally weird I've just been on it... Try sending an e-mail to info@srgc.org.uk and telling them you are having a problem

Thank you I will.

Thanks Mg. All sorted.The advice was that some Internet Explorers are not picking up the site. I was advised to download Firefox which is free of charge. It is a browser which I can use and still keep the original browser as my main browser. There was some other advice given which proved unsuccessful when I was talked through it by my son who lives 400 miles away. He also tried a few other things and in the end agreed we would need to download Firefox. So as soon as I can find time I will be having a browse around www.srgc.org.uk Funny thing is my son was able to access it no problem. He has recently returned from a trip to the base camp on Everest. I was asking him about the vegetation and he has hopefully taken some pics of the alpines he saw as well as the lovely Rhododendrons and a second plant whose name he could not recall which grew in great profusion on the lower slopes. He is not really a plant person.

Glad you've finally sorted out the problem...