Hi Darren, Point of lay refers to the age of the pullets (16 to 20 weeks) and not their readiness for egg laying Generally you would get eggs from 18 to 22 weeks depending on how well grown they are (commercial growers tend to slow down the rate of growth to ensure a better size egg when they first ...

My field is pure clay, having been close grazed by sheep for generations. In May 2005 (trying many ways for preparing plots) I covered part of the grass with black plastic and left it until May 2006. The result was lovely, two passes with the rotavator and she was up to her wheel axils. However the ...

I beleive the commercial catalogue will be coming out in November, you can get it online...so maybe they are updating it at the moment.

I was told of a similar recipe to this, but was not told to boil the vinegar mixture...result fermenting cucumbers! I will try again.

You can buy these from Edwin tucker & sons Ltd, for £9 per 100 and that is the most expensive squash that they have. Others eg Harlequin are £4.50 per 100. So it may pay to take Allans advice in a different thread and buy the commercial packets of seed and share them or keep them for a year or t...

Allan,

The point is I DID NOT clear the thistles, after 3 sprays approximately 3 weeks apart I gave up as I needed to plant the squashes and sweetcorn!

The only thing that worked was the manual digging up of the roots in late march followed by rotavating mid April and black plastic!

This year having struggled for an afternoon to clear a 10 foot by 20 foot plot of thistles and nettles by digging them up and still had about 10 times more to go at, I gave up organic aspirations and bought some Glyphosate and sprayed away. After about 2 weeks they showed signs of dying, but before ...

Hi, I enquired a few months back about this system, but got no replies. I have since sorted out a system using a 12V Timer connected to a Lorry's reversing lamp with a 100 Amp hour Leisure battery. Currently it requires charging every 10 days, but I only have it on for 5 hours per day. I am thinking...

Allan,
I once saw one of those signs, closely followed by two halves of a tree...one on the left of the road and one on the right

Ferline and Gardeners Delight in the polytunnel are still cropping wonderfully and untouched by blight. Polytunnel is still well ventilated even at night, although I might start closing it up completely at nights now. I dug out all of the Legend tomatoes 2 weeks back as they just became too tangled ...

Try ducks for slug/snail and other grub hunting

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Gilts will often have reduced litters if they suffer stress during pregnancy. Eg too hot (a problem in large breeding sheds) or being kept waiting too long for their food (again a problem in large breeding sheds where the ones furthest from the door might have to wait half an hour before their food ...

Little dog and hedgehog might not mix

Cat food - or now even special hedgehog food will entice them if they are near by, but they won't eat the slug then

Good luck with the hunt.

Juliet, Have you still got leaves on the PFA? If NOT then they won't grow any bigger If yes then you could wait until the leaves die back as this often helps to fill out the potatoes. My Anyas (planted 6-6-06) died back a few weeks ago and have loads of tubers about finger length and fatter than my ...

The last two years I have grown a variety called Red Flame (commercial seed from Tozers) This has given me lots of flowers and beans with little greenery. BUT I'm not sure if it is the variety or my growing conditions (heavy clay, with little organic matter...but I'm trying to improve it!) Has anyon...