Search found 372 matches
- 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...
- 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!
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.
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.
- 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 ...
- 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.
- 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...
- 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...
- 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’...
- 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...
- 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...
- Sun Sep 29, 2024 9:07 pm
- Forum: General chatter
- Topic: Happy Birthday.
- Replies: 6
- Views: 1265
Re: Happy Birthday.
Happy Birthday Robo
- Sun Sep 22, 2024 5:04 pm
- Forum: Tools and Machinery
- Topic: Hedge Trimmer
- Replies: 13
- Views: 3494
Re: Hedge Trimmer
Looks great
- 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
- 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...
- 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...
- 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...