This is just stone cold brilliant.

Oh FFS. You lot might all be at #wetherspoons celebrating the pubs opening, but tonight we will be in our polytunnel (unheated, filled with three months' worth of seedlings), wrapped in four layers of horticultural fleece and gently weeping.

We've got a crush on these joy-inducing visual minutes from Eden Project's Share the Joy of Growing webinar. Brilliant at getting over loads of info - but if you need more, the full grow-your-own advice sesh from us, Kathryn Welch and Patrick Hosey is at youtube.com/watch?v=AgYHg0…

Gardening more often is good for you! Unless of course you f*** the tendon in your right elbow using a lump hammer to put in pea supports, switch to hammering with your left hand, then hit the back of your right hand with the lump hammer and drop it on your left foot. #sadbuttrue

Ah yes! Wouldn't it be great to walk down your street and see the front gardens full of food, instead of parked cars? theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2…

Chart of the Day. Possibly chart of the year! 👏👏👏

.Boris Johnson #COP26 is coming: time for you to stop saying one thing and doing another. Reject the Cambo drilling permit, and show the world some proper leadership. #BorisStopCambo

Lookit this: plants are far less able to "move" their territories as a response to climate change if their local animal populations are decimated. Protecting biodiversity is as important as reducing carbon emissions if any of us are to have a future. science.org/content/articl…

Large corporates saying they're "green" because they're filling farmland with monoculture, off-setting trees - we don't buy it. Loss of food-producing land leads to carbon-heavy imports instead. Supporting local, sustainable farms is the better choice. fginsight.com/blogs/without-…

Arses. theferret.scot/gardening-firm…

Imagine walking into Tesco for your weekly shop and finding row after row of nice, tidy, low maintenance shelves but without the food. You and your kids would starve. That's how Bees, Birds, Hedgehogs etc feel when they visit your plastic garden #TimeForTurf #DontBeAnEmptyTescos

This thread just purely makes me happy.

Nice one! Liking the doublebubble greenhouse/cold frame/carry-caddy thing that’s going on here. Also it’s got nothing to do with our imminent nuclear destruction, which is a bonus.

Niche gag for British readers of The Economist who are also gardeners: the Lettuce has bolted.