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by Myrkk
Mon Oct 21, 2024 5:22 pm
Forum: General chatter
Topic: Autumn Bits and Bobs.
Replies: 115
Views: 14533

Re: Autumn Bits and Bobs.

Been out looking for the comet but not seen it yet. We were even in a dark sky environment but perhaps too mountainous to get a good look at the horizon. Seemingly it is going to be around the next few days and give us a final chance to spot it before… well we get to see it in a future lifetime! Got...
by Myrkk
Wed Oct 09, 2024 10:23 pm
Forum: Harvesting Q&A
Topic: Leeks look like garlic.
Replies: 6
Views: 1570

Re: Leeks look like garlic.

OY! :lol:

I probably didn’t grow them very well to be fair. , they were my own sowing albeit from an open pack that someone had gifted me. I started them in root trainers and they had a great root system when I planted them out.
by Myrkk
Wed Oct 09, 2024 10:15 pm
Forum: General chatter
Topic: Washing line
Replies: 8
Views: 1780

Re: Washing line

LOL OH. I was just aghast at the thought that people found a clothes line pointless. We found ours under a very overgrown area of the garden but popped a rotary one in. It’s not had as much use as I’d like this year but if it even vaguely looks like it will be warm/windy enough then the clothes are ...
by Myrkk
Tue Oct 08, 2024 12:29 pm
Forum: Harvesting Q&A
Topic: Leeks look like garlic.
Replies: 6
Views: 1570

Re: Leeks look like garlic.

It could be OH. I watered them daily but the beds are an unknown and full of bark mulch. I should get that resolved over winter though and am going to put the, rather lovely looking, contents of the compost pile that was left behind on them.
by Myrkk
Tue Oct 08, 2024 11:14 am
Forum: Harvesting Q&A
Topic: Leeks look like garlic.
Replies: 6
Views: 1570

Leeks look like garlic.

I decided to pick some of the younger looking leeks to use as a side vegetable and to my surprise they have a bulb at the bottom like garlic but haven’t thickened up above it. What could cause this? The only think I can think of is the dogs do occasionally walk through the raised beds and possibly f...
by Myrkk
Sat Oct 05, 2024 7:20 pm
Forum: General chatter
Topic: Autumn Bits and Bobs.
Replies: 115
Views: 14533

Re: Autumn Bits and Bobs.

That’s terrible Peter. My thoughts are with the family. It must be so difficult to make sense of when the person is so young. I agree Westi, there should be a defib in every train. I was on a first aid course yesterday and the stats for survival if one is available and used correctly within a few mi...
by Myrkk
Sat Oct 05, 2024 7:10 pm
Forum: General chatter
Topic: Washing line
Replies: 8
Views: 1780

Washing line

I was reading another *cough* magazine, one that shall remain nameless and they were debating whether clothes lines had any place in a garden?! One person said”perhaps the question is therefore less about having a line and more about whether you would ever use one anyway?” Is this something weird I’...
by Myrkk
Thu Oct 03, 2024 2:14 pm
Forum: Ask the team
Topic: compost, garlic, shallots
Replies: 4
Views: 2085

Re: compost, garlic, shallots

Hi, and welcome. Charles Dowding seems to be very knowledgeable about soil improvement and after reading his website and newsletter my plan to improve the soil is to lay cardboard on the raised beds with compost on top to suppress weed growth (lots of buttercups in them) and fertilise the soil at th...
by Myrkk
Sun Sep 29, 2024 9:13 pm
Forum: Ask the team
Topic: Sweet Potatoes
Replies: 1
Views: 579

Sweet Potatoes

Hi, just wondering about sweet potato slips. My sweet pots have died back so I harvested them today and was thoroughly disappointed. There were 3 small tubers and the rest were around pinkie sized. My question is, could I plant these tiny little tubers to grow for next year? Type was Beauregard. Tha...
by Myrkk
Sun Sep 29, 2024 9:07 pm
Forum: General chatter
Topic: Happy Birthday.
Replies: 6
Views: 1265

Re: Happy Birthday.

Happy Birthday Robo
by Myrkk
Sun Sep 22, 2024 5:04 pm
Forum: Tools and Machinery
Topic: Hedge Trimmer
Replies: 13
Views: 3494

Re: Hedge Trimmer

Looks great :)
by Myrkk
Sun Sep 22, 2024 5:02 pm
Forum: General chatter
Topic: Pets
Replies: 7
Views: 2010

Re: Pets

I’m so pleased for you. The acceptance that their happy and content is different as they age is a key thing. Here’s to many more tail wags
by Myrkk
Thu Sep 19, 2024 12:35 am
Forum: Tools and Machinery
Topic: Hedge Trimmer
Replies: 13
Views: 3494

Re: Hedge Trimmer

Geoff can I ask what you bought? I’m looking at battery powered trimmers at the moment but unsure which to buy. We have a predominantly ivy hedge but with a lot of other stuff growing through including some cherry tree saplings. The one I looked at could do up to 5cm stems. It was just a little heav...
by Myrkk
Thu Sep 19, 2024 12:32 am
Forum: General chatter
Topic: Autumn Bits and Bobs.
Replies: 115
Views: 14533

Re: Autumn Bits and Bobs.

Decided to bunk off down the bird conservation garden today. They had a small garden and loved that they’d netted off the majority of their strawberries but had left those that escaped out the sides for the wildlife. Love that live and let live attitude, will definitely be adopting it next year. The...
by Myrkk
Thu Sep 12, 2024 1:08 am
Forum: Birds, Animals and Livestock
Topic: Ducks
Replies: 12
Views: 4277

Re: Ducks

They’re actually more garden friendly than chickens, or so I’m reliably told by some duck owners. They tend not to eat the veg patch and flower bed but graze the grass. Slugs make up a small part of their diet but from what I gather they can’t eat too many so I will wait and see. At 2wks old they ar...