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by Geoff
Wed Mar 27, 2024 10:08 pm
Forum: Best practices
Topic: Solar Pest Repeller
Replies: 3
Views: 58

Re: Solar Pest Repeller

This is simply an argument about whether you are registered for Lidl Plus that gives you the 25% discount on all Parkside products for a few days.
by Geoff
Tue Mar 26, 2024 11:32 am
Forum: Weeds, Pests and Diseases
Topic: Ivy, Spiders, poop and Birds
Replies: 3
Views: 61

Re: Ivy, Spiders, poop and Birds

You could drill the tops of the bigger stumps and pour in some neat glyphosate and top off with a bit of clay. They don't sell the really effective stump killer anymore. They don't reshoot very quickly and you could paint the emerging shoots after scratching them a bit with weed killer. Might be a j...
by Geoff
Sun Mar 24, 2024 7:29 pm
Forum: General chatter
Topic: Spring Bits and Bobs.
Replies: 38
Views: 755

Re: Spring Bits and Bobs.

Lovely day, lots of weeding and cutting down and another bonfire. Seems to be a nice bright full moon for Easter, strange that.
by Geoff
Thu Mar 21, 2024 7:08 am
Forum: General chatter
Topic: Late Winter Bits and Bobs.
Replies: 201
Views: 74434

Re: Late Winter Bits and Bobs.

I know there is a new thread but thought I would finish the Verbena discussion. Thanks OH it sounds like they grow quickly. I've hedged my beds by sowing a few and taking some cuttings. I thought they might live and self seed with you and Primrose, they don't here but the feathery one, Verbena hasta...
by Geoff
Wed Mar 20, 2024 7:41 am
Forum: General chatter
Topic: Late Winter Bits and Bobs.
Replies: 201
Views: 74434

Re: Late Winter Bits and Bobs.

Verbena bonariensis free seeds this month. Has anybody ever grown them from seed, how quickly do they develop? I usually raise my plants from cuttings of overwintered stock plants, if fact I was going to take the cuttings this week, but I'm wondering if I should use the seeds instead. Got all my pot...
by Geoff
Fri Mar 15, 2024 9:52 am
Forum: Weeds, Pests and Diseases
Topic: Japanese knotweed
Replies: 4
Views: 154

Re: Japanese knotweed

I wouldn't get too hung up about it, it seems to me like yet another way of the moving industry extracting money from us.
by Geoff
Thu Mar 14, 2024 3:18 pm
Forum: General chatter
Topic: Late Winter Bits and Bobs.
Replies: 201
Views: 74434

Re: Late Winter Bits and Bobs.

Yes OH Wednesday was 39.4mm and we already have 15.2mm today but it does seem to be easing. Quite strange to have a couple of low flying Chinooks come out of the clouds and fly by just above eye level across the valley.
by Geoff
Tue Mar 12, 2024 6:24 pm
Forum: General chatter
Topic: Late Winter Bits and Bobs.
Replies: 201
Views: 74434

Re: Late Winter Bits and Bobs.

Had my annual trailer load delivered on Saturday from the local Young Farmers charity Muck Haul. £50 to good causes and this year a huge pile of good stuff. Sunday and Monday I dug the only two beds that I intend to dig, one I call 3 legumes (sweet peas, broad beans, runner beans) and one for peas. ...
by Geoff
Fri Mar 08, 2024 6:32 pm
Forum: General chatter
Topic: Late Winter Bits and Bobs.
Replies: 201
Views: 74434

Re: Late Winter Bits and Bobs.

Nice to have some dry weather for a change even though the wind was rather cutting. Had a long overdue big bonfire, that overdue it included the Christmas tree and wrapping paper!
by Geoff
Fri Mar 08, 2024 8:08 am
Forum: General chatter
Topic: Happy Birthday Geoff.
Replies: 7
Views: 352

Re: Happy Birthday Geoff.

Thanks for those comments. All seems well, operation went to plan and issues were anaesthetic reaction which she has had after previous operations.
by Geoff
Thu Mar 07, 2024 7:49 am
Forum: General chatter
Topic: Happy Birthday Geoff.
Replies: 7
Views: 352

Re: Happy Birthday Geoff.

Thanks for that OH.
Perhaps today's present will be collecting my wife from hospital. Had her keyhole hysterectomy on Tuesday but wasn't very well yesterday when she was supposed to come home, hopefully better news this morning. Still got the 70 mile round trips for radiotherapy to come.
by Geoff
Sat Mar 02, 2024 8:29 am
Forum: General chatter
Topic: Late Winter Bits and Bobs.
Replies: 201
Views: 74434

Re: Late Winter Bits and Bobs.

This is a photo I took in February 2020. There is a soil warming cable underneath and the one you can see round the sides both controlled from the one rodstat. The front boards lift out for access mostly removed in the photo, they are painted white on the inside like the rest of the structure. It is...
by Geoff
Fri Mar 01, 2024 11:11 pm
Forum: General chatter
Topic: Late Winter Bits and Bobs.
Replies: 201
Views: 74434

Re: Late Winter Bits and Bobs.

Yes OH I use a couple of growing bulbs and I really like them. They are compact fluorescents - 2 x 125W that I use 5-9 morning and evening at the moment. I've briefly looked at LEDs because I thought I could reduce my power consumption but it didn't prove economical to swap them. There is another di...
by Geoff
Fri Mar 01, 2024 9:43 am
Forum: General chatter
Topic: Late Winter Bits and Bobs.
Replies: 201
Views: 74434

Re: Late Winter Bits and Bobs.

You have my sympathy having just been down that road. Still sorting out as garage spelt my name wrong on the road tax payment.
by Geoff
Fri Mar 01, 2024 9:41 am
Forum: Ask the team
Topic: What’s this Bulb??
Replies: 5
Views: 242

Re: What’s this Bulb??

I thought hyacinth too but was a bit confused by the multiple shoots. Put it back in or in a pot and wait and see!