Hello and welcome. It's Tuesday 23 September 2025. 

Lots of news to share with you in this episode including my astrantia finally being ready, hub sales, connecting with a new florist, and making a website for the cut flowers. Also real progress is being made on the new beds on the plot, which is excellent. I've been adding lots of lovely chicken manure compost as a top dressing (I have a 'no till' system) and found plenty of worm casts, which is positive. I'm about to start experimenting with using a soil blocker to germinate my seeds and I'll let you know how I get on.

The highlight of the week has been entering some of my dahlias into my local dahlia society show. I actually won some prizes! And some very useful raffle prizes! I also got to shadow the judge as he was marking the exhibits, which was a real education, and I have learnt so much about how the stems are assessed. The show was yet another reminder that the types of dahlias I grow are so important.

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