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- Sun Apr 21, 2024 8:20 pm
- Forum: General chatter
- Topic: Spring Bits and Bobs.
- Replies: 142
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Re: Spring Bits and Bobs.
I've got two Karcher hoses that I quite like though the one that is in the polytunnel is starting to harden a bit (bought 2016) but the one outside (bought 2021) that doesn't get high temperatures is fine, no splitting on either.
- Thu Apr 18, 2024 7:41 am
- Forum: General chatter
- Topic: Spring Bits and Bobs.
- Replies: 142
- Views: 3650
Re: Spring Bits and Bobs.
Definitely wasn't far off last night - minus 1.1 but up to plus 0.6 now. I think everything was covered apart from a few lettuce where the cloche blew away last week. Wife won't be happy about her beautiful rockery rhododendron though.
- Tue Apr 16, 2024 3:10 pm
- Forum: General chatter
- Topic: Going Green, but not doing so?
- Replies: 4
- Views: 205
Re: Going Green, but not doing so?
Absolute nonsense - used in antiquity to lay waste to enemies' land after you've finished with the rape and pillage.
- Mon Apr 15, 2024 11:28 am
- Forum: General chatter
- Topic: Spring Bits and Bobs.
- Replies: 142
- Views: 3650
Re: Spring Bits and Bobs.
Perhaps I should have checked the forecast better before I planted out the broad beans and sweet peas this weekend, being throwing hailstones at them this morning much going past horizontally.
- Sat Apr 13, 2024 10:12 am
- Forum: General chatter
- Topic: Spring Bits and Bobs.
- Replies: 142
- Views: 3650
Re: Spring Bits and Bobs.
That looks good, do you know the name?
- Sun Apr 07, 2024 6:59 pm
- Forum: General chatter
- Topic: Spring Bits and Bobs.
- Replies: 142
- Views: 3650
Re: Spring Bits and Bobs.
Bit of a surprise that I could achieve this after the weather we have had. This is my '3 legumes' bed, broad beans down the middle and sweet peas and runner beans each side. The broad beans will be ready to go out after a couple more days in the cold frame.
- Thu Apr 04, 2024 6:08 pm
- Forum: Weeds, Pests and Diseases
- Topic: White fluff
- Replies: 2
- Views: 234
Re: White fluff
Mealy Bug?
- Thu Mar 28, 2024 5:40 pm
- Forum: General chatter
- Topic: NHS Dentists in Scotland?
- Replies: 16
- Views: 1265
Re: NHS Dentists in Scotland?
Scotland is able to have better public services because the Barnett Formula that calculates the devolution grants is too generous so I am subsidising free further education in Scotland for example. I don't understand the pressure for independence as they would lose all this English money.
- Wed Mar 27, 2024 10:08 pm
- Forum: Best practices
- Topic: Solar Pest Repeller
- Replies: 4
- Views: 701
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.
- Tue Mar 26, 2024 11:32 am
- Forum: Weeds, Pests and Diseases
- Topic: Ivy, Spiders, poop and Birds
- Replies: 4
- Views: 450
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...
- Sun Mar 24, 2024 7:29 pm
- Forum: General chatter
- Topic: Spring Bits and Bobs.
- Replies: 142
- Views: 3650
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.
- Thu Mar 21, 2024 7:08 am
- Forum: General chatter
- Topic: Late Winter Bits and Bobs.
- Replies: 201
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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...
- Wed Mar 20, 2024 7:41 am
- Forum: General chatter
- Topic: Late Winter Bits and Bobs.
- Replies: 201
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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...
- Fri Mar 15, 2024 9:52 am
- Forum: Weeds, Pests and Diseases
- Topic: Japanese knotweed
- Replies: 4
- Views: 476
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.
- Thu Mar 14, 2024 3:18 pm
- Forum: General chatter
- Topic: Late Winter Bits and Bobs.
- Replies: 201
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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.