I had them for the first time this year,left them alone in case they were something exotic but will zap them next year.

Has anyone else noted that Albert Bartlett Rooster seed pots vary in size from Pigeon to Ostrich in the same pack, I felt as if I could of made a big pan of chips with some of the seed.Plus one of the sacks I bought Had Blight in it which I swapped with my local supplier with no problem.

Hi Jethro, Have just done it the hard way, A big axe aiming at the plant/ ground junction at 45Deg slowly working around it. The biggest problem was trying to miss the chickens who were determined to catch anything living in there.
Arthur

I'm with Felix on this one, it's the only way I can grow sweetcorn at all, no chance outside. Through flow and shaking give me all I or they need for good crops every year
Arthur

Hi all, My local Tesco over ordered Charlotte potatoes at christmas and had to sell them at 2P a bag to get rid of them, the same applied to Blueberries but they were 5P a punnet.
I bought 10 bags of the charlottes for friends and kept one as seed for myself.
Arthur

Welcome to the forum Suzie.
Iv'e had a squadron of Yellow hammers with me all winter, they seem to have taken over from the Greenfinches that we always had lots of.
cheers
Arthur

Hi Primrose, Once when I was on a short trip to an Abu Dhabi oil field I was in the swimming pool when a Heron flopped into the pool. It was absolutely done for and would of drowned if we had'nt dragged it out.The next problem was to feed it up back to health and this was helped by the kitchen staff...

Thanks for your concern everyone but it was my fault. The Mrs screamed in the kitchen that the cat had brought a mouse in so when I got there the Vole was lying at the cats feet looking quite dead so I reached down to pick it up and it sunk its teeth into the knuckle joint of my left index finger, m...

Just a little warning about handling "dead" mice and voles. I was bitten by a "dead" Vole 2 weeks ago and have just come out of hospital after suffering Leptospirosis, nearly had to go on Dialysis but I'm getting over it.
Arthur

Hi Tankerpilot, domestic heating kerosene works just fine, I have been using it for years. Aircraft Jet A1 is just as good.
Arthur

Hi all, I let a red cabbage go to flower then started dismantling it and inside I found 10 large sprout sized red cabbages clustered round the central flower stem. Is this unusual and if not should it be the way we harvest red cabbage to give lots of individual portion sized cabbage. http://i982.pho...

No nothing special just a watering can of growmore liquid feed 2 or 3 times during the season.I missed out thinning one branch enough this year and the weight of fruit broke the branch, as it wasn't snapped off altogether I just tied it up to the crop bars and it is still fruiting nicely but a bit b...

Hi mrsbirdland I have 2 nectarines in my poly tunnel one bought in and the other from a Tesco stone, The bought one has been in for about 4 years and this is the third year of fruiting The one grown from a stone was planted in a pot about 6 years ago? and planted in the tunnel 3 years ago, both have...

It beggars belief, JB you've got me welling up as well.
Arthur e

We have been eating ours for a fortnight now,cheating a bit as some of mine are in the pollytunnel
Arthur