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Gins home grown tastes so much better, even than the organic stuff.

I have only just started growing strawberries this year and from my one plant I now have twenty. The strawberries, all 7 off them where the best I've tasted and am looking forward to next year.

I am going to try carrots and beans next year and may be tomatoes

Sorry forgot to say thanks Jonesey :-D

I bet they are Toots but I cant let go of flowering and shrub space for a carrot ;-)

Go for it Toots - I used to have a very big garden which had beautiful 'worked' soil and grew everything and it tasted BEAUTIFUL !!!

Nowadays, I have just got back into it in a small way in pots and tubs but I have had a lot of success !!!

Dea Xxx

I hate Sainsbury's car park !!!!!!!!!

Feel better for saying that !

Dea Xxx

I'm not the best gardener in the world and have been known to have spider plants die on me.

I'm growing everything in pots and hoping for the best

It works Toots !!!

Dea Xxx

Dea I was overwhelmed by the success of the strawberries and how easy it was.

I have a friend who brings me his glut of tomatoes every year and they are amazing, nothing like the watery stuff from the supermarket. He keeps inviting me to his allotment so I am going to take him up on it.

DO take him up on it Toots !

You have to wait years for an alotment around here - If you have access even to a small piece of one - DO make use of it 'coz home grown stuff is SO much nicer !!

Dea Xxx

You can plant Cabbage carrots ,beetroot, salad stuff and any other thing among the flowers no probs....They do well grown together....At least the slugs and snails ate the cabbage this year and not my lupins...

And the runners are grown in a small raised bed on some land that was used for dumping ash and cinders for years that is behind a wall so I couldnt see any flowers in there anyway..

That should be good soil with the ash....grow anything I should think

Our Sainsbury has a massive two tier car park Dea.....and an Indian checkout geezer who gives me all the best recepies

He checks out what I have bought and then suggests what to do with it...hes ace...oh and very good looking, but thats not why I go to his line!

You are very lucky Ginns.

My Sainsbury's car park is #### !! - (use your wildest imagination !!)

A clue here - #### does not mean Good or Nice or Fine, but quite the opposite, with knobs on !!

That is why I NEVER shop there !!

Dea Xxx

I dont blame you Dea.

Where mom lives in Wales, Sainsbury have the smallest car park ever and the spaces are sooooo tight

I live in a large city so it has to comply with the local planning, which insist on 'vast' parking arrangments

Our sainsburys is quite good has a car park on the roof too.

Hav'nt applied for a blue badge which I should have really but parking is never a problem.

Morrisons is better can walk there (well not walk but can get there on my scooter)

ja...x

Hello Ja....x - I have missed you too !!!

Morrison's is still the best !! (although, I still call it 'Safeways' !!)

Dea Xxx

Strange really !! - I shop there, on average, 3 - 4 times a week.

I spend a fortune there.

I even own shares in the place so I know who owns it but I still have great difficulty in calling it 'Morrisons' rather than 'Safeways' !!

Dea Xxx

Our morrisons is small but they are in the process of building a bigger one next door. Only trouble is the exit is on our road so I hope when it is built they put an exit on the main road too

ja...x

I will have a word Ja....x ;-)

Mind you, I don't think that my 'few shares' will carry much weight !! :-D

Dea Xxx

Ok ta Dea :-D

I have about 20 shares in M&B who own Harvesters wonder if they are worth selling now.

I took out a share option when working for them and when my three years were up the price to buy was more than they were worth...but at least I got the money back

ja...x

I think they are a little over £2 at the moment Ja....x

Dea Xxx