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- Sun Jan 15, 2006 5:34 pm
- Forum: General chatter
- Topic: Tatties
- Replies: 20
- Views: 9537
I think you should be bolder. I dig my outside potato bed in January incorporating compost then sheet it over - did it last weekend. Then first weekend in March I fold back half the sheet and plant Rocket in furrows lined with more compost and cover with a large hoop cloche. I leave them covered unt...
- Sun Jan 15, 2006 5:20 pm
- Forum: Best practices
- Topic: POTATO BARRELS
- Replies: 3
- Views: 3114
That was good news. I have access to square 25 litre containers (we make the firefighting foam that was all over the television screens a few weeks ago and use lots of them), unfortunately our design has the handle built into the top so I'll lose that when I cut them but the volume will be the same ...
- Sun Jan 15, 2006 10:20 am
- Forum: Seasonal tips
- Topic: Shallots
- Replies: 23
- Views: 12280
After posting I looked up Sue Strickland's article from last year. It looks like I must keep the Sante until April or they will bolt so might also keep the Golden Gourmet for a few weeks. I had planted them in trays of fairly dry compost in the insulated but not yet heated greenhouse but I shall tra...
- Sat Jan 14, 2006 11:43 pm
- Forum: General chatter
- Topic: Removal of topic
- Replies: 9
- Views: 4938
- Sat Jan 14, 2006 5:06 pm
- Forum: Seasonal tips
- Topic: Shallots
- Replies: 23
- Views: 12280
Shallots
Bought my shallots today and was surprised by the advice on the label:
"Plant your bulbs after the danger of frost".
What do you think?
They were Sante and Golden Gourmet both 75p for 25 nice bulbs, less 15% in the Winter sale which I thought wasn't a bad deal.
"Plant your bulbs after the danger of frost".
What do you think?
They were Sante and Golden Gourmet both 75p for 25 nice bulbs, less 15% in the Winter sale which I thought wasn't a bad deal.
- Wed Jan 11, 2006 12:25 pm
- Forum: General chatter
- Topic: Labels / Markers
- Replies: 46
- Views: 21743
- Tue Jan 10, 2006 7:07 pm
- Forum: General chatter
- Topic: Labels / Markers
- Replies: 46
- Views: 21743
- Sun Jan 08, 2006 9:25 am
- Forum: General chatter
- Topic: Labels / Markers
- Replies: 46
- Views: 21743
Labels / Markers
How do you label things? I use plastic labels and permanent markers but they aren't reliably permanent. For example I have three rows of sprouts, two doing well one not so good but I can't read the names written last summer. My wife says it is because I clean the labels by soaking them in 50% bleach...
- Thu Jan 05, 2006 5:20 pm
- Forum: Best practices
- Topic: Peas
- Replies: 7
- Views: 5117
I have a stock of 5' pieces of treated slate battening that I knock in in pairs 1' apart every 5'along the rows. I cadge old binder twine off a local farmer and put horizontal strings along the rows at about 1', 2', 3' and 4' high down one side. Then I push birch pea sticks into the row and put stri...
- Thu Jan 05, 2006 5:12 pm
- Forum: Best practices
- Topic: Which potatos should I grow?
- Replies: 16
- Views: 11157
Second eary Charlotte are an unbelievable flavour if you like waxy salad potatoes. Also roast and chip really well and even keep despite being second earlies, used our last just before Christmas. I grow Rocket for the speed (sorry about that) as first earlies. They do have the new potato taste but o...
- Mon Jan 02, 2006 9:43 pm
- Forum: Best practices
- Topic: Organic
- Replies: 24
- Views: 13744
- Sun Jan 01, 2006 1:35 pm
- Forum: Best practices
- Topic: Organic
- Replies: 24
- Views: 13744
How can compost increase trace elements? If they aren’t in your soil, they cannot get into your plants so they aren’t in your compost! Some plants may move and concentrate them. Deep rooted Comfrey added to the compost or used as a mulch may make them available from the sub-soil. But the chances are...
- Sat Dec 31, 2005 8:35 am
- Forum: Best practices
- Topic: Organic
- Replies: 24
- Views: 13744
- Thu Dec 29, 2005 12:18 pm
- Forum: Best practices
- Topic: Organic
- Replies: 24
- Views: 13744
Once again the debate between Realistic Organic and Legal Organic. I believe the Legal Organic movement is doing a serious disservice to the health of the nation. We need a classification based on real safety rather than unproved theory. The objective should be food that is free of residues from pes...
- Wed Dec 21, 2005 7:00 pm
- Forum: Best practices
- Topic: Starting a Propogating area.
- Replies: 14
- Views: 7444