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by skinny_bum
Sat Apr 02, 2011 11:39 pm
Forum: Seasonal tips
Topic: Spring Greens!
Replies: 12
Views: 5767

Re: Spring Greens!

I am please that I am not the only person confused over this "spring greens" stuff, it is very interesting to know that you can grow the harted sort of cabbage all year round, and chop it up before it harts. I thank you all for the info & now I can go away and look for some seeds, thin...
by skinny_bum
Tue Mar 29, 2011 10:48 pm
Forum: Seasonal tips
Topic: Spring Greens!
Replies: 12
Views: 5767

Spring Greens!

Can someone tell me, what is the name of the plant of Spring greens? Is it just cabbage but cut up, every year I think I must ask so that I can plant some seeds and save money as I love the stuff.
Thanks SB
by skinny_bum
Tue Mar 29, 2011 10:40 pm
Forum: Best practices
Topic: Purple sprouting broccoli
Replies: 13
Views: 4853

Re: Purple sprouting broccoli

Interesting to read about the summer version, they the plants the same size a the winter sort, as I only have a limited amount of space on my plot.
Any other good SSB they you would suggest?
by skinny_bum
Tue Mar 29, 2011 10:29 pm
Forum: Best practices
Topic: Seed Potatos
Replies: 7
Views: 2874

Re: Seed Potatos

Oh many thanks for the answers they are great, I notice "john" that you said that you dig up your later crop of 2nd's when you need them, does this mean that they would then turn into a sort of main crop? How long can you leave them in the ground before they taste a bit nasty? I have plant...
by skinny_bum
Mon Mar 28, 2011 10:06 pm
Forum: Best practices
Topic: Seed Potatos
Replies: 7
Views: 2874

Seed Potatos

This is a really stupid question, but if I dont ask I will never know :roll:

If you plant a large seed potato do you get larger spuds at the end of the growing season, or does the original size of the seed potato make no difference at all?
S.B
by skinny_bum
Sun Jan 23, 2011 10:43 pm
Forum: General chatter
Topic: The Edible Garden Show
Replies: 1
Views: 1536

The Edible Garden Show

Hi just thought that I would pass on some info for those that might like to go, sorry if this has already come up else where, have been off line for a while...any way The Edible garden Show is being held in Stoneleigh Park, Kenilworth, Warwickshire, 18 - 20 march. The show was cancelled last year, b...
by skinny_bum
Sat Apr 24, 2010 9:54 pm
Forum: Birds, Animals and Livestock
Topic: where to keep my chickens!
Replies: 5
Views: 3015

Re: where to keep my chickens!

HI Alan,
Thanks for link, it is great. 8)
SB
by skinny_bum
Sat Apr 24, 2010 2:48 pm
Forum: Birds, Animals and Livestock
Topic: where to keep my chickens!
Replies: 5
Views: 3015

Re: where to keep my chickens!

I too am looking about maybe getting some chickens, are they more trouble than they are worth? How ill do they get and can I just take them to my local vet? Mine would be in a large cage, but I know nothing of, what to feed, what to look for if they get ill, what sort of run they should have, beddin...
by skinny_bum
Sat Apr 24, 2010 2:33 pm
Forum: Seasonal tips
Topic: peas
Replies: 1
Views: 1875

Re: peas

I leave mine 2-3 even 3-4weeks, but then it depends on how many you have planted in the 1st place and how reg you pick them. There is only two of us, and we eat like pigs so I plant loads, because only half of what I pick even reach the table. :lol:
SB
by skinny_bum
Sat Apr 24, 2010 2:29 pm
Forum: Best practices
Topic: cheap fruit bushes
Replies: 4
Views: 2501

Re: cheap fruit bushes

Hi Meow, Last year I purchased one of those cheap trees, a cooking apple from pound stretcher, (why I got another cooker god knows as I have a massive one in the garden already) anyway my point is this, for the sack of £4.99 I thought that I would go ahead and try it, I have it in a massive pot, not...
by skinny_bum
Thu Apr 08, 2010 11:00 pm
Forum: Seasonal tips
Topic: seaweed
Replies: 13
Views: 6277

Re: seaweed

Hi I have just read the post and it all sound really good, I live near the sea, and work just across the road from the beach, wish it was palm beach, but alas it is just a stoney heaven! Anyway having never used seaweed before and not knowing much about it at all, I didnt even realise that you could...
by skinny_bum
Tue Apr 06, 2010 12:46 pm
Forum: Seasonal tips
Topic: What can I plant under my Peas???
Replies: 7
Views: 3200

Re: What can I plant under my Peas???

Hi all thanks for the great ideas, Johnboy I take your point about then being in rows and so on everyones advise I am going to do a test, one row, and one wigwam with radish under it and see how things fair, down on the south coast things are warming up pretty well, other than rain!! but we have not...
by skinny_bum
Mon Apr 05, 2010 5:46 pm
Forum: Seasonal tips
Topic: What can I plant under my Peas???
Replies: 7
Views: 3200

What can I plant under my Peas???

Hi just going to put the 1st lot of peas out into their spot to grow on and then be eaten, any ideas as what I can grow under the peas, as I will be growing them up a wigwam shape and dont want to waste the space in the circle. Thanks
by skinny_bum
Sun Mar 08, 2009 4:55 pm
Forum: Seasonal tips
Topic: Seeds online from Alan Romans Seeds.
Replies: 6
Views: 3935

Re: Seeds online from Alan Romans Seeds.

Hi P.P
Glad that i could be of some help, but as you said maybe I should have posted the site earlier :roll: , but there is always next year for some great stuff.

8) SB
by skinny_bum
Sun Mar 08, 2009 4:52 pm
Forum: Seed Swop-Shop
Topic: Yacon Tubers - Wanted
Replies: 2
Views: 4913

Yacon Tubers - Wanted

Bit of a long shot but does any one out there have any Yacon Tubers, you can buy them from the real seed company but according their web site, their crop failed last year. Boo Hoo.

Fingers crossed for a PM

SB :wink: