What are you growing at the moment?

The weather's crazy this year isn't it? Good luck with your growing. Shame about the bad luck you've had in the past. I'd love to grow cucumbers as we get through so many of them in our house. Are they hard to grow? What caused the problems that you had? (If you don't mind me asking). A few years ago we had a load of tomato plants and they caught some kind of fungal tomato disease and we lost them all. When stuff like that happens it does put you off trying again, but we've had a few good years since then hopefully it won't happen again this year.

That's a shame, especially if you like gardening. It's good you've still got the sprouts, sounds useful, and I like the things that you can grow indoors too. And aloe vera's great to grow, I believe it has a load of useful medicinal properties. Thanks for your reply.

Hi Venshida. Well I'm sure it's not too late for you to plant things. I hope you managed to get some time this weekend to plant your peppers. Sounds good. Thanks for your reply.

It's nice to grow herbs, we had some success with them last year although some of them went to seed (coriander I think), they're always handy for cooking. Shame about your cat eating them though - unusual taste? Yes, you're probably starting around the right time with the tomatoes, mine have been growing inside so far and are already quite big. I'm wondering if I started them too early as the weather still isn't really dependable for them to be outside. Will have to see. I don't have a cat but might have the same problem anyway as several cats have started visiting our garden this year. We bought some stuff a while ago to try to discourage foxes coming in the garden, (although they went away anyway so didn't have to use it), but it's called "Get Off my garden", and it's a Cat and Dog Repellant. It's meant to confuse their sense of smell and so discourage them from going near your plants and so doesn't harm them. There is a warning about keeping it away from children though. I think there are lots of similar products on the market.

Wow, that's a lot of plants! I'm sure you'll have an impressive amount of vegetables from all those. I'd like to try growing some different things in the future, aubergines sound like a nice idea. I'd love to help you but I probably don't quite live near enough!

It's a really nice idea to plant strawberries. You just reminded me that we used to grow them in our garden when we were little, and we used to get quite a good crop. Tasted lovely too. I think the weather was much better in those days though! Raspberries should be lovely and summery too. We seem to get a couple (literally!!) of raspberries growing in our garden most summers, I think the plant must have spread from our neighbour's garden. We also get a load of blackberries which are of course wild, and unfortunately prickly and very rampant! I hope you manage to get lots of fruit this year.