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- Sat Mar 06, 2021 11:11 am
- Forum: General chatter
- Topic: Early Spring Bits and Bobs
- Replies: 14
- Views: 152
Re: Early Spring Bits and Bobs
I wish I hadn't started the "Early Spring Bits and Bob" because the last few days have been rather wintry: very cold N/NE wind, heavily overcast and even very occasional snowflakes ...... Just got to 6C so far today.
- Thu Mar 04, 2021 7:14 pm
- Forum: General chatter
- Topic: ALLOTMENT ASSOCIATION MACHINERY
- Replies: 6
- Views: 62
Re: ALLOTMENT ASSOCIATION MACHINERY
We had a similar problem with tools used on our local nature reserve some years ago. An assessor came from the insurance company to check them out and we then had to pay insurance (luckily, the Parish Council was responsible for it and paid it) before the tools could be used.
- Thu Mar 04, 2021 7:59 am
- Forum: General chatter
- Topic: Early Spring Bits and Bobs
- Replies: 14
- Views: 152
Re: Early Spring Bits and Bobs
All the best, Westi!
- Wed Mar 03, 2021 7:40 pm
- Forum: General chatter
- Topic: Late Winter Bits and Bobs.
- Replies: 138
- Views: 2431
Re: Late Winter Bits and Bobs.
Primrose, it's in the very latest one, March 2021, in a letter on page 132 ('Grafted Winter Beauty'). There is also an article about daphne in general on page 137. Hope that helps.
- Wed Mar 03, 2021 4:35 pm
- Forum: General chatter
- Topic: Early Spring Bits and Bobs
- Replies: 14
- Views: 152
Re: Early Spring Bits and Bobs
All the best, Robo, you really have got it rough at the moment! I had a rather unpleasant internal examination at our local hospital this morning, part of an ongoing problem, but everybody was very professional and kind and it's so odd with all the gowns, masks, social distancing etc, but needs must...
- Mon Mar 01, 2021 7:41 pm
- Forum: General chatter
- Topic: Late Winter Bits and Bobs.
- Replies: 138
- Views: 2431
Re: Late Winter Bits and Bobs.
I am with you there, retropants. Take me to a nursery or garden centre and you have to tie my hands down before I buy the lot, then bring them home, divide them, take cuttings ....... But then, I hardly ever spend any money on clothes, still wearing some which I bought about 40 years ago and even so...
- Mon Mar 01, 2021 11:22 am
- Forum: General chatter
- Topic: Early Spring Bits and Bobs
- Replies: 14
- Views: 152
Early Spring Bits and Bobs
Sorry, OH, I couldn't resist, today being 1 March ..... I have just cleared all the plants out of the greenhouse and given it a thorough hoovering and then wash inside and out. It's wide open now to dry out and tonight I will fumigate it with a sulphur candle, ready for REAL action from now onwards....
- Mon Mar 01, 2021 11:16 am
- Forum: General chatter
- Topic: Late Winter Bits and Bobs.
- Replies: 138
- Views: 2431
Re: Late Winter Bits and Bobs.
I totally agree, Chantal! In the same vein, it always amazes when I see photos of expensive watches, thousands of pounds worth ..... You still only get 60 minutes in the hour and 24 hours in the day, which is exactly what my £9.99 watch gives me.
- Sat Feb 27, 2021 7:49 pm
- Forum: General chatter
- Topic: Late Winter Bits and Bobs.
- Replies: 138
- Views: 2431
Re: Late Winter Bits and Bobs.
First frog spawn in the pond, narcissus Tete-a-tete and Ice Baby flowering, song thrush and blackbird singing - could almost be spring!
I took the large black plastic sheet off the vegetable beds, hoed the lovely crumbly soil and marked out the beds. Looking forward to the planting and sowing now.
I took the large black plastic sheet off the vegetable beds, hoed the lovely crumbly soil and marked out the beds. Looking forward to the planting and sowing now.
- Fri Feb 26, 2021 9:06 pm
- Forum: General chatter
- Topic: Late Winter Bits and Bobs.
- Replies: 138
- Views: 2431
Re: Late Winter Bits and Bobs.
Primrose, there is an actual article about daphne in the Magazine, but the idea about grafting is in a letter in the same issue.
- Fri Feb 26, 2021 8:23 am
- Forum: General chatter
- Topic: Late Winter Bits and Bobs.
- Replies: 138
- Views: 2431
Re: Late Winter Bits and Bobs.
Primrose and Geoff, re your daphne cuttings: there is a mention of the difficulty of taking daphne cuttings in the current RHS magazine and somebody writes that growing the vigorous spurge laurel Daphne laureola and then grafting other daphne pruning onto to is successful. Perhaps you could try that?
- Wed Feb 24, 2021 4:25 pm
- Forum: General chatter
- Topic: King Seed Supplies
- Replies: 30
- Views: 625
Re: King Seed Supplies
I have just read a very interesting article in the weekly Garden News magazine about the problems seed merchants and specialist societies are having at the moment with Brexit regulations kicking in. All plant and seed material has to be separately certified both for import and export. Societies like...
- Wed Feb 24, 2021 12:24 pm
- Forum: General chatter
- Topic: Late Winter Bits and Bobs.
- Replies: 138
- Views: 2431
Re: Late Winter Bits and Bobs.
Oh, robo, hard luck. I hope it heals well and soon!
- Wed Feb 24, 2021 12:22 pm
- Forum: General chatter
- Topic: Vitamin D
- Replies: 10
- Views: 131
Re: Vitamin D
I have taken four different pills every morning for at least 20 years, one each of multivitamin (including vitamin D, of course), maximum strength cod-liver oil (which also includes vitamin D), garlic and probiotic. I have no idea if they have helped me in any way, but coming up to 84 now and still ...
- Wed Feb 24, 2021 9:59 am
- Forum: Cooking tips
- Topic: Has anyone got a deep-filled pie maker?
- Replies: 6
- Views: 129
Re: Has anyone got a deep-filled pie maker?
Somehow, I can't really see the point of a machine like this. Unless you are making loads of pies and lots of the time, would it not be easier to do it by hand?