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I've had a little 'helper' these last few days helping me stack a pile of lose logs.

This year there's more of a hint of Predator Aubergine...

I was hoping someone else had some advice as I've not had much success myself with figs in containers. Plenty of places seem to grow them ok in pots, such as the various RHS gardens. The one in my photo was one of 4 pot grown cuttings and has about 20 ripening figs on it. The best pot grown one...

Well at least all this sunny weather has been good for our fig trees. We've not had much luck with bought in plants but our house came with a very productive plant. As it's grown in a scrap heap we don't eat the figs but cuttings take very easily and we've grown a few on in pots in the...

This morning I saw a lovely roe doe, standing next to my runner beans!

I gather pressing ok to silence the alert also deletes it on some phones.

Not quite. I didn't get it as I've turned off notifications as I don't want some random alarm going off if I'm driving. My OH has them turned on, it didn't come through when it should have done as we don't have mobile reception and connecting via WiFi is a bit flaky. When it did come through...

My pinhole pizza dish camera...

With the eclipse and the Perseid meteors later tonight I'll be disappointed if there's no triffids roaming the streets tomorrow. Make a pleasant change from the tourists at least.

What colour is the lint?

We've had a few wasp nests destroyed by badgers this year. Sadly they also dig up quite a few bumble bee nests as well, especially in the dry weather. I do worry a bit about our bee hives as we get.loads of badgers about the place.

Would this make much difference to people's habits? Ebay, for example, usually allows you to pay a bit more for Royal Mail but I wonder how many people just use the cheapest option? I normally pay the extra for RM as I get tracking and know roughly what time it will be delivered. Edit.to add...

I'm aware of beech dropping branches in dry weather although ours haven't done so. I was puzzled about the alder as it is right next to a stream so shouldn't be suffering from a lack of water. I'm happier discovering why it shed it's top half but it was probably split in a storm a couple of...

Roe are almost always present in our woodland and the main problem we get is the bucks fraying young trees and coppice. We're not over run with them so don't feel the need to reduce their numbers yet. We often get young kids and therefore very small droppings, hence my question above. But I'm...

A quick google seemed to suggest the pellets of roe and muntjac could be quite similar, but as there's always roe about our woods I tend to assume small droppings are roe. I'm also curious to know the difference on the noise roe and muntjac make, they both seem to bark and we often hear barking...

I know muntis are meant to be tough but I didn't know they carried pen knives... We don't have them here yet so can't help with the id but why do people suggest muntjac over roe? If it's mainly down to size would a young roe not produce similar?

I know a bit and used to know Ivy Watts quite well. But a book starting from scratch would be a good investment as I have considered having some form of 12v supply for some parts of the house long term. However, to start with I was hoping to get a recommendation for some campervan type shop...

I thought this might be a sobering warning. On Friday I heard a loud crashing sound in our woodland, it was about 3 pm and it was a warm and still day. Yesterday I investigated and found the top of a very large alder (70 cm dbh so a tree you can't get your arms around the trunk) and snapped off...

I have considered going down the buy batteries and associated bits route as a more flexible solution rather than saving money. (I think the power station I linked to above has been down as low as £350). It would be more time consuming to sort out as not only would I need to decide what...

How do they compare to other fruits like a good raspberry or ripe tayberry? Worth growing?