The trick is to get them picked when they are just ripe enough to eat and before the magpies eat them all! 🌱

My Hebe was cut back a few years ago and I wasn't happy with how it was done. Does it need cut back now and, if so, any tips on how to do it properly? The bees love it by the way.🌱

My hanging basket strawberries are producing more fruit than ever this year. Not bad for the east end of Glasgow in a pretty dismal summer.

40 years ago - hard to believe...

My hydrangea is looking quite the part!

Happy Feast!

This book both delights and informs. Hugely detailed empirical evidence of the lives of all sorts of women in England over 900 years. I don't buy her take on all of the material she discusses and she contradicts herself over the binary nature of sex but it didn't stop me loving this book. 📚💙

Ant tips for those of us living in Scotland to keep our poinsettia's going? I have tried a few times unsuccessfully. Mine is getting a bit leggy now but still has some red leaves.🌱

Loving the subtitle version of Rio Hatate's name....

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Don't forget! Also, cash on the day is welcome if you don't have time to go to the shops before the game. #CelticFC

@eddietoner.bsky.social is willing to sell this artwork to the highest bidder....

Using the Boycat app to make sure nothing in my shopping trolley is finding genocide in Gaza.

Work not finished yet but this gives you an idea of the space

Tomatoes still ripening nicely indoors and that's the last of the blueberries picked.

Bluesky now has over 10 million users, and I was #2,883,128!

September in Glasgow and still picking tomatoes and blueberries

Enjoy this close-up of my hydrangea - the rest of the garden is a tip because of the horrible summer but I have had salad leaf and my sweetcorn, tomatoes and blueberries are still coming along nicely!