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- Tue Mar 25, 2008 5:55 pm
- Forum: Seasonal tips
- Topic: When are you going to plant your potatoes out?
- Replies: 23
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I have now covered the area I'm going to plant my Charlottes with a cloche (I don't have much space), so I think I'll let the soil warm up a bit and dry out a bit before I plant them. As we're away it'll probably be the first weekend in April that they go in. The ground here is very cold and wet. An...
- Sat Mar 22, 2008 4:53 pm
- Forum: Seasonal tips
- Topic: When are you going to plant your potatoes out?
- Replies: 23
- Views: 10214
- Sat Mar 22, 2008 2:45 pm
- Forum: Seasonal tips
- Topic: When are you going to plant your potatoes out?
- Replies: 23
- Views: 10214
When are you going to plant your potatoes out?
My friend already has hers in, but I wasn't even thinking about doing it till after the beginning of April. They have chitted nicely, but I'm wondering whether I should put them in, and perhaps cover them with fleece??
- Sun Mar 09, 2008 7:00 pm
- Forum: Seasonal tips
- Topic: PLANTING / S0WING NOW?
- Replies: 52
- Views: 18718
- Sat Mar 08, 2008 4:19 pm
- Forum: Seasonal tips
- Topic: PLANTING / S0WING NOW?
- Replies: 52
- Views: 18718
Haven't planted anything until 1st March, but now ... well, I've planted: Tomatoes, aubergines, chillis, chives, one variety of cucumber, - all to be germinated inside, plus carrots in a pot, beetroot, peas for pea shoots, peas in peat pots to go outside (to try to get the better of the meeces), roc...
- Sun Feb 10, 2008 9:25 am
- Forum: General chatter
- Topic: Looks good this weekend!!
- Replies: 47
- Views: 12253
Well, I got everything done I wanted to except washing out the plant pots ready for this year's sowings. It was a lovely day! And today promises to be just as lovely - the sun is already shining and the frost glistening. We do have a heavy frost ... So maybe I'll save the pot washing till later and ...
- Fri Feb 08, 2008 9:21 am
- Forum: General chatter
- Topic: Looks good this weekend!!
- Replies: 47
- Views: 12253
Looks good this weekend!!
It looks like this weekend is going to be a good veg plot weekend!!! Wahay! What are you all going to do? I'm planning to tidy up the beds, dig up all tired and exhausted veggies, and attack the greenhouse - with cleaner of course. Oh and I might clean out my pots ready for spring planting.
- Thu Feb 07, 2008 9:33 pm
- Forum: Best practices
- Topic: Newspaper pots
- Replies: 27
- Views: 9439
- Thu Jan 24, 2008 7:31 pm
- Forum: Seasonal tips
- Topic: Plant now/later???
- Replies: 4
- Views: 3127
- Sun Jan 13, 2008 4:20 pm
- Forum: General chatter
- Topic: Good for Suffolk Herbs
- Replies: 4
- Views: 2176
Re: being surprised about good service - I think mostly the surprise is to celebrate the good. So often it is only bad service that gets the publicity, countless good examples are not aired in public!!! Find this at work: people very quick to criticise, but when the job is well done nobody says a wo...
- Fri Jan 11, 2008 5:24 pm
- Forum: Best practices
- Topic: CAVOLO NERO
- Replies: 23
- Views: 8750
Yes, I grow Cav Nero. It's covered with net to stop the pigeons and it was invaded by caterpillars in September, but is looking lovely and healthy in my winter veggie garden at the moment. It's tall and architectural, rather like miniature palm trees! And a lovely rich dark green. I would love to he...
- Fri Jan 11, 2008 5:20 pm
- Forum: Seasonal tips
- Topic: Plant now/later???
- Replies: 4
- Views: 3127
Plant now/later???
It's so tempting to rush out and start planting stuff in my new greenhouse, but it's not heated and I know it's not a good idea. How many of you lot have found that stuff you plant later (say, March/April) do just as well, if not better, than the stuff you started off in Jan/Feb full of enthusiasm a...
- Fri Jan 11, 2008 5:14 pm
- Forum: General chatter
- Topic: Somthing about YOU
- Replies: 77
- Views: 21957
I used to have 1 and a half allotments in Leamington Spa, but have just moved to N Cotswolds (beautiful!) and spent most of last summer (at least June July and August - difficult to tell whether it was summer or not ...) making raised beds and digging up a lawn to make even more raised beds! Looking...
- Fri Nov 16, 2007 9:41 pm
- Forum: Seasonal tips
- Topic: broad beans
- Replies: 20
- Views: 8616
- Tue Sep 25, 2007 9:32 am
- Forum: Best practices
- Topic: Defined beds
- Replies: 17
- Views: 7849
Sorry Granny, but I don't think Couch grass is reknown for having shallow roots. It's a pain, and the only way I found to get rid of it at my allotment was just continuously hoiking it up. Eventually it begins to lose the will to live. I have bindweed now, and have to take the same attitude with tha...