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- Fri May 10, 2024 6:02 pm
- Forum: General chatter
- Topic: Grow Your Own Drugs
- Replies: 6
- Views: 177
Re: Grow Your Own Drugs
Profile pic is a crab apple called "Gorgeous".
- Fri May 10, 2024 12:47 pm
- Forum: General chatter
- Topic: Grow Your Own Drugs
- Replies: 6
- Views: 177
Re: Grow Your Own Drugs
Fruit of the HAWthorn
- Wed May 08, 2024 10:22 pm
- Forum: Growing places
- Topic: Root trainers
- Replies: 11
- Views: 30480
Re: Root trainers
Pea and bean poor germination in rootrainers seems to be down to moisture content or vermin. Having said that I can't get sensible germination of borlotto beans however much care I take.
- Wed May 08, 2024 3:52 pm
- Forum: Best practices
- Topic: Germination rates
- Replies: 3
- Views: 183
Re: Germination rates
Plenty of time to try again. With carrots in particular no-show can in fact be slugs browsing them off as soon as they come through. If the ground is a bit wet fill the drills with a 50:50 mixture of sand and leafmould instead of the soil.
- Wed May 01, 2024 4:15 pm
- Forum: General chatter
- Topic: Spring Bits and Bobs.
- Replies: 216
- Views: 9514
Re: Spring Bits and Bobs.
Lovely day here too, first choc ice of the season with afternoon brew.
- Tue Apr 30, 2024 10:53 pm
- Forum: General chatter
- Topic: Spring Bits and Bobs.
- Replies: 216
- Views: 9514
Re: Spring Bits and Bobs.
Well there's a surprise! Checked my year to date figures 2015 to 2024 and this year the first four months have registered the highest rainfall and the lowest solar generation.
- Sun Apr 28, 2024 8:20 am
- Forum: General chatter
- Topic: Spring Bits and Bobs.
- Replies: 216
- Views: 9514
Re: Spring Bits and Bobs.
Two swallows flew out of my garage this morning, strange I hadn't seen them inspecting it yesterday. There is alternative access for them when the main door is closed.
- Sun Apr 21, 2024 8:20 pm
- Forum: General chatter
- Topic: Spring Bits and Bobs.
- Replies: 216
- Views: 9514
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: 216
- Views: 9514
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: 531
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: 216
- Views: 9514
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: 216
- Views: 9514
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: 216
- Views: 9514
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: 385
Re: White fluff
Mealy Bug?
- Thu Mar 28, 2024 5:40 pm
- Forum: General chatter
- Topic: NHS Dentists in Scotland?
- Replies: 16
- Views: 3006
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.