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by The Colonel
Fri Nov 25, 2011 5:08 pm
Forum: Seed Swop-Shop
Topic: Wanted - Sugar beet seeds
Replies: 2
Views: 6272

Re: Wanted - Sugar beet seeds

Can anyone help please?
by The Colonel
Wed Aug 24, 2011 9:04 pm
Forum: Best practices
Topic: Autumn/Winter Sown carrots?
Replies: 5
Views: 6383

Re: Autumn/Winter Sown carrots?

This one, if you can find it. Carrot:Nantes Frubund:Fast Crop Highly commended by the Royal Horticultural Society, UK. It is the first genuine autumn sowing carrot, exceptionally early and cold resistant. It will give you carrots in your garden in the spring when nobody else has them and when they ...
by The Colonel
Wed Aug 24, 2011 9:00 pm
Forum: Seed Swop-Shop
Topic: Wanted - Sugar beet seeds
Replies: 2
Views: 6272

Wanted - Sugar beet seeds

A bit of an odd request but does anyone have any sugar beet seeds please? I've always wondered what the beets look like and having a bit of ground would like to plant half a dozen to see what they turn out like. According to wikipedia they are very small seeds so a packet probably does a whole field...
by The Colonel
Tue Aug 23, 2011 9:03 pm
Forum: Best practices
Topic: Autumn/Winter Sown carrots?
Replies: 5
Views: 6383

Autumn/Winter Sown carrots?

I think I know the answer but I'll ask anyway. Forgive the horticultual ignorance but I wondered if there are any autumn/winter sown carrots at all? I know that some things like broad beans can be sown in the autumn for an early crop and wondered if there were any carrots planted early in a similar ...
by The Colonel
Thu Jul 28, 2011 10:50 pm
Forum: Tools and Machinery
Topic: Merry Tiller Newbie
Replies: 8
Views: 9615

Re: Merry Tiller Newbie

Richard & Clive, Many thanks for your comprehensive replies. I have consulted a local garden machinery firm and a old chap came out to have a look at it and started it first time! There is a technique to it - very little choke and an almost closed throttle and it fires 1st time, and it even did ...
by The Colonel
Tue Jul 19, 2011 5:21 pm
Forum: Tools and Machinery
Topic: Merry Tiller Newbie
Replies: 8
Views: 9615

Re: Merry Tiller Newbie

Thank you for the welcome.

I've seen this post but was advised as its a single cyl engine with a magneto there are no points in the car distributor sense, and just to clean the magneto as I did. If I could get a B&S manual I'd invetigate further.

Michael
by The Colonel
Tue Jul 19, 2011 4:49 pm
Forum: Tools and Machinery
Topic: Merry Tiller Newbie
Replies: 8
Views: 9615

Merry Tiller Newbie

I've just joined the Forum having been looking for info on Merry Tiller Rotovators. I've recently purchased a Wolseley Merry Tiller and eventually managed to get it going. The machines data plate says Wolseley Merry Tiller Model No. AC3444 TITAN SERIAL No. 328 and on the engine cover it says Model 1...