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- Tue May 30, 2006 8:13 am
- Forum: Best practices
- Topic: Night time temperaturres
- Replies: 25
- Views: 9688
- Tue May 30, 2006 8:10 am
- Forum: Seasonal tips
- Topic: Are squashes safe outside yet?
- Replies: 9
- Views: 5282
- Sun Feb 12, 2006 10:44 am
- Forum: Seasonal tips
- Topic: Wood for raised beds
- Replies: 13
- Views: 9661
Every last one of my 22 raised beds was built from scrap timber out of skips etc. The last six were courtesy of my neighbours loft conversion. It took a while to find enough, but I couldn`t afford to buy that amount of timber new. Over the years it starts to decay a bit, but there`s plenty more out ...
- Mon Feb 06, 2006 4:54 pm
- Forum: Best practices
- Topic: How do you dig?
- Replies: 21
- Views: 9512
I originally double dug every single one of my raised beds to the traditional two spits deep plus manure formula. It was hard work at the time....but I don`t have to dig at all now. I`m short so use a stainless steel border spade, and work left to right then right to left on the next row. Lots of te...
- Mon Feb 06, 2006 4:48 pm
- Forum: Seasonal tips
- Topic: Raised beds - what and what not to plant
- Replies: 17
- Views: 11519
My entire plot is made up of 22 raised beds, marked, dug and mulched over the course of my first five years on the plot. Now they`re no-dig and a great timesaver. They`re all 4ft wide and vary in length to suit the plot. However the 18` long ones I find a bit too long to walk round so I`m going to d...
- Mon Feb 06, 2006 4:41 pm
- Forum: Seasonal tips
- Topic: Planting Aquadulce
- Replies: 10
- Views: 5059
- Sat Jan 28, 2006 7:12 pm
- Forum: Readers Recipes
- Topic: Jam pot covers
- Replies: 4
- Views: 4180
- Fri Jan 27, 2006 12:53 pm
- Forum: Birds, Animals and Livestock
- Topic: Cat litter: any use for this in the garden at all?
- Replies: 23
- Views: 13785
. (Some countries even use human excrement as fertilizer.) The U.K and most of the EU, pumps almost all its sewage sludge (solids from sewage farms) onto farmland. Have you never seen tankers parked in small country lanes attached to tractor driven pumps and miles of pipe? Sorry, I expressed myself...
- Fri Jan 27, 2006 10:43 am
- Forum: Harvesting Q&A
- Topic: bottling passata
- Replies: 34
- Views: 19502
- Fri Jan 27, 2006 10:31 am
- Forum: Birds, Animals and Livestock
- Topic: Cat litter: any use for this in the garden at all?
- Replies: 23
- Views: 13785
Women in France can get vaccinated against toxiplasmosis when pregnant, so they can carry on eating all the food they like. I wouldn`t be happy putting cat litter into the garden. The general rule for compsting excrement is herbivore stuff is fine, carnivore stuff is not. (Some countries even use hu...
- Tue Jan 24, 2006 3:43 pm
- Forum: General chatter
- Topic: Dye plants in the allotment.
- Replies: 1
- Views: 2636
Dye plants in the allotment.
Can anyone point me in the direction of a good book on how to grow dye plants? I`m a spinner and am interested in learning to dye my wool and yarns with natural dyes. I feel I need to get the dye plant area of the allotment going this year, so that I have enough plant material to use next year. But ...
- Tue Jan 17, 2006 6:32 pm
- Forum: Birds, Animals and Livestock
- Topic: Worm book
- Replies: 1
- Views: 2691
- Mon Jan 16, 2006 4:19 pm
- Forum: Birds, Animals and Livestock
- Topic: bee keeping on my allotments
- Replies: 12
- Views: 7342
I`d like bees, but to the best of my knowledge there are at least two plotholders on the site that have the kind of allergy to bee stings that require the immediate use of an adrenaline injection pen. It might of course be argued that there are plenty of bees and wasps on an allotment site anyway, a...
- Mon Jan 16, 2006 4:10 pm
- Forum: General chatter
- Topic: roottrainers and garlic
- Replies: 9
- Views: 5069
I`ve got several sets of rootrainers in the frames that hold them and they have lasted for six years now, often being used twice per year. I bought them at a Potato Day though, so no idea of manufacturer. Would I buy them again? Well, possibly not. They don`t fit that well into a propagator, if that...
- Mon Jan 16, 2006 10:29 am
- Forum: Best practices
- Topic: Digging up grassland
- Replies: 8
- Views: 5448
It`s wireworms that are the problem, isn`t it? They live in permenant pasture, then when you start cultivating root crops they go for these instead. There was a article in Kitchen Garden about making lazy beds in grassland, btw. Perhaps one of the forum admin folk can help if it`s availible online? ...