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Sounds like you're going gangbusters Sally! If you were close by I'd happily share Jerusalem artichokes with you...we have a bounty and they'll be finding their way out and about and around! :))

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As I mentioned last week I would be a couple of days ahead of you with the garlic, and like you ours have starting sprouting, just a few, but hopefully many more to come. Our tomatoes are finished and all the green ones are starting to ripen out on the table in the al fresco area, if I can find some Nicola seed potatoes I think I might give them a go this year. My mother used to grow Jerusalem Artichokes, I love them, but have never grown them myself so have to wait until I find them in the Supermarket. Your hint re the purple oxalis is good, but not so when it is in the pots. I can’t be,I’ve how much it can spread, there must be minute particles in the air that drop on the ground and in the garden as they just appear from nowhere. Our citrus has produced massively this year, two buckets of limes so have been giving them away to all the neighbours, family and friends, at least with picking all those limes I was able to give the tree a good cut back and get rid of all the Gaul wasp I found. I love saving seeds, but most of ours off from herbs like Parsley, dill and coriander. The mint and thyme are happy to sow their own seeds which I need to keep a watch on, particularly the mint. Our dahlias are about a week away from being finished also, and once again I will be sharing tubers, particularly the Cafe au Lait which is everyone’s favourite. Thank you once again for a great relaxing read, and what a coincidence that you talked about Paul Bangay when only last week I said that was what our garden was originally based on.

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