I’ve never kept bees 🐝 and a few weeks ago I was kindly offered 5 hives 1 of them was had bees in. Now I have no fixed abode so I donated 2 of the hives to @Andrew Munro and sent the other 3 to a friend in Somerset. Since then I’ve ended up on my friends small holding with the bees in Somerset running the vegetable gardens. So this week I’ve been playing with honey lots of honey as the hive’s although they had no bees were full of honey. So here is a few pics of my last few days 😊

I've decided this year to take up some of the lawn in the back garden (where there used to be a pond that I filled in with soil) to plant potatoes and other root vegetables. Therefore, I can use the containers for growing different/more vegetables. In previous years I've grown potatoes, carrots, green beans, tomatoes and cucumbers in containers quiet successfully. I've tried to grow orange coloured peppers in containers but they didn't change from green to orange (and had a bitter taste when I tried them). I put this down to lack of sunshine. I haven't tried growing them again. I'm going to purchase some fruit trees to grow in containers. Has anyone tried successfully to grow fruit trees in containers?