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- Fri Oct 13, 2006 10:17 pm
- Forum: General chatter
- Topic: School xmas fete
- Replies: 27
- Views: 8647
- Fri Aug 25, 2006 7:39 pm
- Forum: General chatter
- Topic: We need help and motivation
- Replies: 15
- Views: 7531
Frantony, I've been thinking of posting a thread very similar to yours. I took the plot on last year and everything I did manage to achieve felt like an achievement. This year, despite all my plans, the overall yield has actually been lower, andthe only thing to have really benefited has been the co...
- Wed Aug 23, 2006 12:05 pm
- Forum: General chatter
- Topic: Allotment film
- Replies: 23
- Views: 7303
That title sounds like the biggest case of product placement since John Travolta discussed burgers in that Tarantino film! The subject matter doesn't sound any less likely to me than male strippers in Sheffield, or that brass band one with Ewan McGregor. Suggest KG gets in with some product placemen...
- Fri Jul 14, 2006 5:10 pm
- Forum: Weeds, Pests and Diseases
- Topic: Garlic harvested, me disappointed
- Replies: 4
- Views: 3327
Hi Colin, This year (i.e, last autumn planting) was the first time I had garlic on the allotment, the previous year there were potatoes on that patch, and before that the plot belonged to someone else. I've planted garlic in successive years on the same patch in my garden without problem, thought of...
- Sun Jul 09, 2006 11:47 am
- Forum: Weeds, Pests and Diseases
- Topic: Garlic harvested, me disappointed
- Replies: 4
- Views: 3327
Garlic harvested, me disappointed
Dug up all my garlic yesterday. Sadly it seems to have been affected by onion white rot, the majority of it. This was on my allotment where I planted loads of the stuff last autumn, 4 different varieties from 2 suppliers. The previous 2 years I've planted bulbs from the supermarket in my garden and ...
- Fri Jun 30, 2006 11:16 am
- Forum: General chatter
- Topic: Loo rolls
- Replies: 32
- Views: 11377
- Fri Jun 30, 2006 9:50 am
- Forum: General chatter
- Topic: Loo rolls
- Replies: 32
- Views: 11377
When I was a small child we used to have the hard paper occasionally - presumably when the budget wouldn't stretch to soft. This was a real treat for me because a) it could be used as tracing paper b)you could fold a sheet over a comb, put in mouth and blow - this was supposedly a musical instrument...
- Fri Jun 23, 2006 9:24 am
- Forum: Seasonal tips
- Topic: Late sowing/planting
- Replies: 12
- Views: 7333
- Wed Jun 14, 2006 10:09 pm
- Forum: Seasonal tips
- Topic: vegetables that don't mind the drought?
- Replies: 6
- Views: 4038
- Wed Jun 07, 2006 9:19 am
- Forum: General chatter
- Topic: Allotment Days
- Replies: 9
- Views: 4162
- Sat Jun 03, 2006 5:58 pm
- Forum: Best practices
- Topic: Leggy cabbages -should I bother?
- Replies: 4
- Views: 3794
- Fri Jun 02, 2006 6:37 pm
- Forum: Best practices
- Topic: Leggy cabbages -should I bother?
- Replies: 4
- Views: 3794
Leggy cabbages -should I bother?
I ordered off the internet some cabbage seedlings. They arrived last week and I potted them up as I knew I wouldn't be able to put them in the ground for a while. The seedlings were a lot more advanced than I had expected - 6 - 8 inches?, and the lower stems were kinked. They stayed kinked when I po...
- Fri Jun 02, 2006 2:26 pm
- Forum: General chatter
- Topic: Blue Bins on the allotment
- Replies: 17
- Views: 6006
- Wed May 31, 2006 9:02 pm
- Forum: General chatter
- Topic: Blue Bins on the allotment
- Replies: 17
- Views: 6006
- Wed May 31, 2006 4:37 pm
- Forum: General chatter
- Topic: Blue Bins on the allotment
- Replies: 17
- Views: 6006
Blue Bins on the allotment
Why? Where do they come from? Who put them there? What was in them before? I'm not complaining - they are very useful, and I inherited one when I took on my plot. It's just that they seem to be on every allotment I see - from the road, from trains, photoes on the internet. My personal belief is that...