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- Tue Sep 26, 2006 12:38 am
- Forum: General chatter
- Topic: Composting direct into the soil
- Replies: 15
- Views: 6825
- Tue Sep 26, 2006 12:26 am
- Forum: Readers Recipes
- Topic: Malvern Picnic Stuffed Peaches
- Replies: 5
- Views: 3657
- Tue Sep 26, 2006 12:23 am
- Forum: Cooking tips
- Topic: Dorset Naga Chillies
- Replies: 7
- Views: 8324
- Mon Sep 25, 2006 11:53 pm
- Forum: Harvesting Q&A
- Topic: Franchi seeds Butternut Rugosa
- Replies: 24
- Views: 13921
Gosh, what an unusual variety of Butternut. Sue, these look magnificent (they should last you a while!). Did you do anything clever to get them this size, or is it just the variety that leads to that? Can you also say how many plants you had to get the crop your photo shows? Finally, in my limited e...
- Mon Sep 25, 2006 5:49 pm
- Forum: Weeds, Pests and Diseases
- Topic: Blight
- Replies: 16
- Views: 9134
Next year climbing beans will be growing on top of them. What will happen to the soil if the blight had just arrived on them before doing this and I hadn't realised? JB and others can probably give definitive advice on this, but I think the view is that blight spores are already all around us. Whil...
- Mon Sep 25, 2006 11:22 am
- Forum: Weeds, Pests and Diseases
- Topic: Blight
- Replies: 16
- Views: 9134
- Thu Sep 21, 2006 3:08 pm
- Forum: General chatter
- Topic: What is your very, very favourite book ?
- Replies: 35
- Views: 12679
Non fiction would have to be Bono on Bono by Mishka something (can't spell his surname) A facsinating insight into an extremely intelligent, complex, creative man. Hi Lizzie, d'ya know, after seeing your recommendation I got this from Amazon. It's taking me a while to get through it (not the book's...
- Thu Sep 21, 2006 3:04 pm
- Forum: Harvesting Q&A
- Topic: which is the sweetest/best tasting,variety of tomato ?
- Replies: 9
- Views: 5888
I second Chantal's recommendation. I love the taste of Sungold - I find it makes other tomatoes seem a bit bland and flabby by comparison. I also like the different colour - nice to have a bit of variety. Lastly, I never seem to have any trouble getting it to grow and produce a good steady volume of...
- Tue Sep 19, 2006 2:24 pm
- Forum: Harvesting Q&A
- Topic: Ripening Outdoor tomatoes
- Replies: 8
- Views: 7513
Re: Ripening tomatoes
I always thought that blight was an air borne disease which mostly happened in really wet weather but perhaps I'm wrong? I think you're right. The cause & resulting disease is in the same family as potato blight. Being fungal, it likes both wet and warmth. Strangley, I'd say that I got less bli...
- Tue Sep 19, 2006 2:11 pm
- Forum: Best practices
- Topic: Anything you won't grow next year ?
- Replies: 53
- Views: 23768
Re: re. Swiss Chard
If there is one crop that can be grown to cut at all times of the year it is swiss Chard. Is there still time to plant it now? I'm trying to have as little as possible ground covered in plastic this Winter. Up until now, I've beens sowing Spring Cabbage, Spinach, Mizuna etc, and garlic soon. The re...
- Tue Sep 19, 2006 2:07 pm
- Forum: Best practices
- Topic: Anything you won't grow next year ?
- Replies: 53
- Views: 23768
- Tue Sep 19, 2006 2:03 pm
- Forum: Seasonal tips
- Topic: sweet dumpling squashes
- Replies: 3
- Views: 3206
- Sun Sep 17, 2006 7:58 pm
- Forum: Harvesting Q&A
- Topic: Ripening Outdoor tomatoes
- Replies: 8
- Views: 7513
I've had some Pantino (Italian Beefsteak) and Alicante outside this year. Many of them have ripened already, but I picked the last fruit down the allotment this morning, because all the plants have got signs of blight. Mind you, they've done well to produce as much as they have before succumbing. I'...
- Sun Sep 17, 2006 7:48 pm
- Forum: Best practices
- Topic: Anything you won't grow next year ?
- Replies: 53
- Views: 23768
> I wouldn't mind so much if everything else had done so well this year. Some varieties have failed to produce a single fruit. I can sympathise. This is the first year in 3 that my Butternut's have actually produced much. However I changed tack this year by digging in a bucket of rotted manure bene...
- Sun Sep 17, 2006 9:55 am
- Forum: Best practices
- Topic: Anything you won't grow next year ?
- Replies: 53
- Views: 23768
Patty Pan wine?
However, there's still another 10 in the kitchen and about 50 more at the plot. Believe it or not, I made wine from Mangel Worzels and it was absolutely delicious (had hints of Sauternes, but without the cost!). Alternatively, Patty Pan Brandy? Or maybe chickens fed on Patty Pan.......no, maybe you...