1st day of Xmas holiday spent a relaxing afternoon finishing building and installing the 2nd composter
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Super smart 
I love it
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Is it too wet? And how cold? Rosemary can cope with dry cold, but not wet cold.
Think Mediterranean hillside - very dry cold.
Often worth thinking about the plant’s natural environment and its characteristics to know what will suit it. So those little waxy leaves are great in hot dry conditions and allow it to thrive on its parched Grecian hillside as don’t loose water
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I don’t think so, its at the top of a gravelly banking, on purpose for the reasons you’ve said.
No idea, I’ve not been here! Nothing bad though. Thanking about it I lost a branch in late summer so can’t be that.
Do they die of old age? I planted maybe 8 years ago. I’m not massively bothered as it needs to go anyway for the above groung pool. Are cuttings likely to work at this time of year?
Why not try? You’ve nothing to lose since you’re saying it’s got to go anyway.
I’ve had rosemary turn up its toes. The ones that do so tend to be the ones I’ve just left. I think regular pruning right from young might be the answer rather than letting a lot of very woody growth take over.
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I can’t see why not & as Sue wrote you’ve nothing to lose.
This is what I do… Break / tear off branches that are at least 18’’ tall from the main stems, strip off the bottom leaves & plant 6" deep.
I’ve got quite a few on the go at the moment for one of Mrs W’s pass times something called ‘La Ğ1 (June)’.
I can send you a few in Spring if yours don’t work out.
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Mine tend to die every 3-4 years. They are on a slopeand don’t get too wet so I think they may be just short-lived. Cuttings sounds like a great idea 
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I ended up buying a very cute ball tree trained rosemary 
. I don’t use it a lot so think it will suit me nicely!
Hubby picked up these for me, they have obviously been in their pots for a while! Am I OK to plant them deep?
They tend to be healthier if you prune them back - think lavender or heather.
Don’t let them get too leggy - that one’s still alive - hard prune the dead branches - take about 50% out of the live branches. Like lavender don’t cut back below live shoots on the living branches
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Yes you can plant them deep
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I don’t know if anyone has had the same problem as I: a lithium battery that the charger won’t charge. I need twin batteries for my strimmer.
YouTube has several videos explaining how to connect the + and — terminals of the good battery to the + and — terminals of the ‘dead’ battery with copper wire. The empty battery only needs to be connected for a few seconds, enough for the good battery to give it a tiny charge that the charger can recognise and start charging. A charger needs to be able to ‘recognise’ a battery, which it can’t if the battery is completely dead.
I connected the batteries carefully and with great trepidation, and surprise, surprise, it worked, and the ‘dead’ battery is now very much alive!
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Did a bit of sowing this afternoon.
Onions, +/- 400, leeks +/- 500, turnips, landais sweet peppers @toryroo some Baz’
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Are you feeding the entire commune? 
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Self sufficiency is my goal, also some plants for neighbours / friends, an association & helping the less fortunate, have a peek at the volunteering tread.
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I am always amazed at the number of beautifully laid out potagers round our commune and local town when so far as I can see our very conservative neighbours do not eat anything like the amount and variety of veg that we do. What on earth do they do with all the stuff they grow?
Preserve it for winter. Our friend’s utility room resembles a factory and her store room is remarkable.
But also as much more waste. Many locally only eat the stalks of chard and throw rest away 
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Very impressed, but what do you do in the kitchen with five hundred turnips?