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- Sat Oct 18, 2008 10:40 pm
- Forum: Best practices
- Topic: Celery
- Replies: 18
- Views: 5848
Snooky hi, Having a lottie gives one the opportunity to try things, especially things like trench celery. I'm just glad I don't have to justify the time I spent on cosseting the little seedlings, then the trench itself. I am down to two plants in their cardboard collars following a rash of bolting s...
- Thu Oct 16, 2008 7:38 pm
- Forum: Weeds, Pests and Diseases
- Topic: Hollow Heart
- Replies: 4
- Views: 2196
thanks for the replies guys, I bought Maris Bard after I had lost a load of Charlotte I was chitting to a bad frost in my lottie shed. I was limited in replacing them as it was quite late, so remembering the commendations here bought them and just chucked them in. I hadn't realised that they were an...
- Wed Oct 15, 2008 5:42 pm
- Forum: Weeds, Pests and Diseases
- Topic: Hollow Heart
- Replies: 4
- Views: 2196
Hollow Heart
I have grown Maris Bard for the first time, I was quite pleased with the yield and its resilience to the summer conditions. However quite a number of them have what appears to be hollow heart. Hessayon states that it is due to prolonged wet after a period of drought, did I miss the dry period? Serio...
- Sat Sep 20, 2008 10:25 pm
- Forum: Best practices
- Topic: Rotating strawberries
- Replies: 11
- Views: 6366
Interesting ideas. I too have not managed to incorporate stawbs into my rotation, but a germ of an idea has taken root. I have 10' by 4' beds which give quite a wide central path, in fact I recently measured the width of the lottie and found it to be wider at one end which means I could have longer ...
- Fri Sep 12, 2008 9:46 pm
- Forum: Weeds, Pests and Diseases
- Topic: Tomatoe Blight
- Replies: 50
- Views: 15137
Popped down to the lottie on the way home from work and was pleasantly suprised at the haul of toms. I lost the lot last year so this year sprayed with Dipthane(?) in the first week in July. I saw signs of blight type marks in August so cut off anything affected and sprayed for the second time at th...
- Wed Sep 03, 2008 7:48 am
- Forum: Seasonal tips
- Topic: overwintering onions from seed
- Replies: 8
- Views: 4079
- Tue Sep 02, 2008 5:32 pm
- Forum: Seasonal tips
- Topic: overwintering onions from seed
- Replies: 8
- Views: 4079
- Fri Jul 04, 2008 11:35 pm
- Forum: General chatter
- Topic: More cucumbers
- Replies: 8
- Views: 3778
- Fri Jul 04, 2008 11:07 pm
- Forum: Best practices
- Topic: Water Saving Tips
- Replies: 5
- Views: 2486
- Tue Jul 01, 2008 10:59 pm
- Forum: Best practices
- Topic: Rotation & Multiple crops in one year
- Replies: 11
- Views: 3759
JB, I am in my 8th season with my lottie. When I took it over I threw in some cabbages as I pondered how to make a start on an overgrown 'fallow' plot and they developed club root. Since then I have created 30 beds, 6 perennial and 24 for rotation and practise an hygenic approach as possible to not ...
- Tue Jul 01, 2008 7:48 am
- Forum: Best practices
- Topic: Rotation & Multiple crops in one year
- Replies: 11
- Views: 3759
Colin I face the same problem. I have 4 beds for brassicas but for an extended crop have to plant my winter cauliflowers into a bed previously used for spring greens. I sow in root trainers and plant out when a good size, I plant out in a hole but back fill with potting compost (saved from last year...
- Fri Jun 27, 2008 1:09 pm
- Forum: Weeds, Pests and Diseases
- Topic: Big insects on rhubarb
- Replies: 11
- Views: 6018
Restarted this post as it may be linked to a discovery on my rhubarb. On the lottie this morning I was harvesting some rhubarb and I discovered some gel near the base. It was crystal clear and did not look like seperate eggs all together, but very much like the hair gel that my offspring have used. ...
- Thu Jun 26, 2008 1:53 pm
- Forum: Weeds, Pests and Diseases
- Topic: Bird scarers - problem pigeons
- Replies: 7
- Views: 4638
- Wed Jun 25, 2008 7:10 pm
- Forum: Weeds, Pests and Diseases
- Topic: Contaminated Manure
- Replies: 325
- Views: 119654
- Tue Jun 24, 2008 7:18 pm
- Forum: General chatter
- Topic: Bit of a breeze
- Replies: 19
- Views: 5697