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- Mon Aug 15, 2011 7:29 pm
- Forum: General chatter
- Topic: Happy Birthday
- Replies: 18
- Views: 5158
Re: Happy Birthday
So glad I managed to pop in today - Happy Birthday Dear OH!! Hope you have had a lovely day
- Tue Aug 02, 2011 7:56 pm
- Forum: Best practices
- Topic: Flowering Onions
- Replies: 11
- Views: 3733
Re: Flowering Onions
Several of my seed grown onions have just put up flower heads - I gather from the above that they should be used and not stored - OK. But what about the others in the row - can I assume that this is likely to happen along the row, and if so, can I harvest them now, a little prematurely to try and ge...
- Fri Jul 29, 2011 8:25 pm
- Forum: Best practices
- Topic: Rudolph potatoes - did anyone else grow these?
- Replies: 2
- Views: 2295
Re: Rudolph potatoes - did anyone else grow these?
Hi NB, sorry for tardy reply, I struggle to find time to get on at the moment! No, I haven't dug anymore plants up as they still look good and green at the moment. I don't think it has been a problem with moisture - certainly not over the last 6 weeks or so anyway. The other plants, onions, carrots ...
- Mon Jul 25, 2011 8:55 pm
- Forum: Best practices
- Topic: Rudolph potatoes - did anyone else grow these?
- Replies: 2
- Views: 2295
Rudolph potatoes - did anyone else grow these?
I had a bag of these free with my tuber order this winter and they have been growing in the same plot as the Maris Pipers, King Edwards and Desiree. All the plants have been looking healthy and just started flowering. But several of the Rudolph variety started to yellow and shrivel - so we dug them ...
- Sat Jul 09, 2011 2:22 pm
- Forum: Birds, Animals and Livestock
- Topic: Channel Island Cows
- Replies: 4
- Views: 3416
Re: Channel Island Cows
In our valley where I grew up (and stayed) we were surrounded by diary herds and had a wonderful jersey herd right behind us. Although we had our normal everyday milk delivered, whenever we needed extra we would walk up the lane and into the little honesty hut where the fridge was stocked with milk,...
- Sat Jul 09, 2011 2:04 pm
- Forum: General chatter
- Topic: Old Herbaceous' hols in Dorset
- Replies: 27
- Views: 7246
Re: Old Herbaceous' hols in Dorset
Perhaps they need a tip off that it will involve a wheelbarrow!!
- Sat Jul 09, 2011 2:03 pm
- Forum: General chatter
- Topic: Summer bits and bobs
- Replies: 168
- Views: 36607
Re: Summer bits and bobs
Just got back from weeding 4 rows of onions and 4 of potatoes in the rain, the sun is out now .
- Sat Jul 02, 2011 7:14 pm
- Forum: Best practices
- Topic: RedLove Apples - has anyone tried/grown/eaten?
- Replies: 10
- Views: 7421
Re: RedLove Apples - has anyone tried/grown/eaten?
Thanks for the explanation JB,
- Tue Jun 28, 2011 6:51 pm
- Forum: Best practices
- Topic: Peat vs peat-free experiment #2
- Replies: 20
- Views: 6825
Re: Peat vs peat-free experiment #2
Apologies - will use PM in future
- Tue Jun 28, 2011 6:38 pm
- Forum: Best practices
- Topic: RedLove Apples - has anyone tried/grown/eaten?
- Replies: 10
- Views: 7421
Re: RedLove Apples - has anyone tried/grown/eaten?
Hi Westi, I look forward to your review if you get to taste one next year! I am intrigued by your comment regarding the tag preventing commercial use - one of the articles about the Redlove apples mentioned that groves were being planted across Europe to bring the apples into supermarkets in the nex...
- Tue Jun 21, 2011 8:14 pm
- Forum: Best practices
- Topic: Peat vs peat-free experiment #2
- Replies: 20
- Views: 6825
Re: Peat vs peat-free experiment #2
my mum is frail and very up and down, she has just been in respite care and sprouted three problems while there
Sorry to hear that NB, I hope she recovers quickly for both of you.
- Tue Jun 21, 2011 7:52 pm
- Forum: General chatter
- Topic: Another Scam?
- Replies: 12
- Views: 4628
Re: Aother Scam?
Goodness Snooky, that's a shocker - thank you for posting it!
- Tue Jun 21, 2011 7:39 pm
- Forum: General chatter
- Topic: Summer bits and bobs
- Replies: 168
- Views: 36607
Re: Summer bits and bobs
10 lbs! Can I assume you have frozen some? What variety have you grown that they are not as long as normal ones or did you just pick them small?
- Tue Jun 21, 2011 7:37 pm
- Forum: Best practices
- Topic: RedLove Apples - has anyone tried/grown/eaten?
- Replies: 10
- Views: 7421
Re: RedLove Apples - has anyone tried/grown/eaten?
Mmm, thanks guys, I think before I spend that kind of money on an apple tree I will make sure I like the future fruits, otherwise I would be very silly! I am not a fan of Gala apples either.
- Sun Jun 19, 2011 7:23 pm
- Forum: Best practices
- Topic: RedLove Apples - has anyone tried/grown/eaten?
- Replies: 10
- Views: 7421
RedLove Apples - has anyone tried/grown/eaten?
Just wondering if anyone has any experience of this variety of apple? It is shown in one of the Lakeland catalogues and I am sure it said they were sent from Suttons, but I can't see them on their website although a google search brings up a result indicating that they once were?