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Hi Maisymulcher, I came to the same conclusion myself recently! I tried my hand at both this year (my first year of gardening) and find veggie growing more rewarding, although I'm not sure why. I don't have an idea of what I want the garden to look like. Maybe if I had an aesthetic goal I'd get more from the flowers and shrubs?

No idea about root trainers I'm afraid.
Peter :)

We really did have to train our Labrador to 'stay on the grass' with constant reminders and treats, because when he was younger he would take off across the flowerbeds after anything that moved e.g. birds, bees, flies, butterflies, the odd (wild) rabbit and next door's cat - and his ball if we threw that across a bed onto the grass...he didn't understand he had to go ROUND the flowerbed or DOWN the steps to retrieve it! (We soon learned only to throw balls on the grass!) He got the message eventually, and only disobeys when he decides to gallumph up and down the stream (then gets out up the bank)...Oh dear...Anyway, how old is your dog?

Some cold weather forcast for next week, hopefully will put a stop on caterpillars.

Ooo yes please show us some pictures of your veg... they make fantastic photies - I have a pull out of pumkins on my office wall..... should I admit that?

yes mine got it and the potatoes too :(

I also picked off the nasty blighty parts on my tomatoes ,I am pleased that I did not uproot and burn them because I still had quite a lot of toms that were perfect,on the same plants.

Hi Maisy, Mine too! I managed to get quite a few tomatoes before digging the plants up. I hadn't realised they had blight so probably left them for too long.

My outside ones all had to be burnt due to blight, but I've still got two plants in the greenhouse! - tomatoes not really ripening now - so I'll be picking them all tomorrow to ripen indoors. Blight seems to have hit all over the country this year.

I think I had an attack of blight too, but I removed as many of the infected leaves as I could and went on to harvest quite a decent crop of `Gardeners delight`!

Yes I lost mine this year. I've grown the same variety for something like 25 years and this is only the third time they've gone done to blight

Hi, yes I think you will probably notice amongst quite a few of us the toms just couldnt survive the warm and damp weather. Guess the toms in the shops will soon be going up in price too!