Grumbles around the edge of my town on social media, the brief muck-spreading season is open.
Between harvest and cultivation for the next crop.
Search found 5602 matches
- Fri Aug 25, 2023 1:36 pm
- Forum: General chatter
- Topic: What smells like manure?
- Replies: 5
- Views: 2856
- Fri Aug 25, 2023 1:34 pm
- Forum: General chatter
- Topic: Tree advice, please
- Replies: 17
- Views: 5527
Re: Tree advice, please
Horse Chestnut trees are brittle, the wood snaps easily and they can grow to a prodigious size. However as with any tree, if tree surgeons do a cut-back they are opening up routes for infection and rot, mostly by fungi. That causes longer term damage, the short term is that many trees respond to bei...
- Wed Aug 23, 2023 7:35 am
- Forum: Best practices
- Topic: Jermor Shallots.
- Replies: 7
- Views: 5831
Re: Jermor Shallots.
Dobies were offering them, got an email from them this week.
- Wed Aug 16, 2023 8:07 am
- Forum: General chatter
- Topic: HAPPY BIRTHDAY O.H.
- Replies: 11
- Views: 44357
Re: HAPPY BIRTHDAY O.H.
Belated happy birthday to you OH.
- Wed Jul 19, 2023 5:28 pm
- Forum: Website Help
- Topic: Post approval
- Replies: 9
- Views: 14546
Re: Post approval
I really don't see why kg subscribers should wait for approval, they need their subscription id number to join and it would be simple to get hold of their name and address if they misbehaved in any way. Just a thought. Jan Just the way the magazine has set up the forum, no distinguishing difference...
- Mon Jul 17, 2023 8:27 am
- Forum: General chatter
- Topic: Allotment Association Shop Supplier's.
- Replies: 5
- Views: 3166
Allotment Association Shop Supplier's.
We got some bad news last week. The supplier we've used for years is shutting down later this year. We've been buying a three ton lorryload of mixed stuff. Three different compost/growbags, bagged manure, granular fertiliser, lime, canes, weed membrane, seed potatoes, etc Asked if they had a competi...
- Tue Jul 04, 2023 8:14 am
- Forum: Seasonal tips
- Topic: Sowing Peas and germination
- Replies: 26
- Views: 28362
Re: Sowing Peas and germination
Could it be the compost you're using? Our Allotment Association has found that the peat-free composts are somewhat variable, we can't get peat based composts any more. Principally when sowing seeds, some things that people never had problems with were not germinating well and in some cases not at al...
- Mon Jun 26, 2023 11:07 am
- Forum: General chatter
- Topic: Who still visits the forum?
- Replies: 59
- Views: 54216
Re: Who still visits the forum?
"Some regular folk are nominated as volunteer moderators & can remove posts immediately if in breech of rules which are then followed up by proper admin or FB if really naughty." that's me that is.
- Tue Jun 20, 2023 7:21 pm
- Forum: General chatter
- Topic: Early Summer Bits and Bobs.
- Replies: 196
- Views: 210353
Re: Early Summer Bits and Bobs.
Finally last night we had some decent rain, the terrace plant pot "saucers" were full of water at 8am, looking forward to finally being able to plant out my squash seedling without them shrivelling up. Allotment hasn't seen any measurable quantity of rain for weeks..... forecast, didn't ar...
- Thu Apr 27, 2023 6:15 pm
- Forum: Best practices
- Topic: Will the British ever ive up their neat tidy lawns?
- Replies: 20
- Views: 13570
Re: Will the British ever ive up their neat tidy lawns?
Well manicured lawns are good for songbirds, less cover for predators and easier to get the creepy-crawlies & worms.
What I really don't get is the plastic grass, what's the point?
What I really don't get is the plastic grass, what's the point?
- Sat Apr 22, 2023 6:24 pm
- Forum: General chatter
- Topic: Long awaited Spring Bits and Bobs…
- Replies: 339
- Views: 94372
Re: Long awaited Spring Bits and Bobs…
Two more rows of spud in, that's four rows so far and about 120'.
- Sat Apr 22, 2023 6:22 pm
- Forum: Cooking tips
- Topic: Coronation signature dish
- Replies: 26
- Views: 19069
Re: Coronation signature dish
I think small beer was made with the mash from the good strong beer, rewatered and rebrewed.
- Thu Apr 06, 2023 11:55 am
- Forum: Birds, Animals and Livestock
- Topic: Animal Repeller
- Replies: 10
- Views: 5745
Re: Animal Repeller
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I1Jli3EQCII Jasper Carrot Mole Sketch Hmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm I bought a sonic thing to frighten off Moles, didn't flippin' work, I even stuck it in one of their runs and the Moles just pushed it out of the way, bit sceptical me. You can get things that go on the front of ...
- Wed Apr 05, 2023 6:58 pm
- Forum: General chatter
- Topic: If birds think
- Replies: 7
- Views: 2340
Re: If birds think
Old Codger?
oldherbaceous wrote: ↑Wed Apr 05, 2023 5:23 am I have been thinking long and hard about this, Stravaig, and after I have seen the way half a dozen Pigeons have been acting over the last few days, I have come up with the conclusion that, they just think about food and sex…..I won’t say who Cook said that reminded her of…
- Sat Mar 25, 2023 7:05 pm
- Forum: General chatter
- Topic: Long awaited Spring Bits and Bobs…
- Replies: 339
- Views: 94372
Re: Long awaited Spring Bits and Bobs…
Two things bother me about composting as related to peatfree composts. How well,or poorly, is the matter composted, have had bags of GP compost opened and be full of live fungi. Allied to that what is the input to the process, is it domestic green waste bins or, more likely, commercially sourced Eas...