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- Sat Sep 16, 2006 10:53 pm
- Forum: General chatter
- Topic: Plants from compost
- Replies: 4
- Views: 2437
- Sat Sep 16, 2006 10:46 pm
- Forum: General chatter
- Topic: What's it like growing in Australia?
- Replies: 3
- Views: 2168
What's it like growing in Australia?
What's your climate like, Dahlis, where you live? I don't know enough about Oz, but I think you have rather warm winters compared with ours. Or is it somewhat cooler in the highlands? Do the varieties of veg we grow here sound familiar, or do Australians have a completely different set to choose fro...
- Sat Sep 16, 2006 10:29 pm
- Forum: General chatter
- Topic: How big are allotments?
- Replies: 50
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Hello all. Dahlis has told me how to put images onto the forum, so I wonder if anyone will be interested after all in seeing what a dry bedford allotment looks like. Here's the first of 4. Yes, Weed, you may well laugh. The shed was cobbled together over a weekend about 3 years ago and cladded with ...
- Mon Sep 11, 2006 11:33 pm
- Forum: Weeds, Pests and Diseases
- Topic: parsnips
- Replies: 11
- Views: 6112
- Mon Sep 11, 2006 11:19 pm
- Forum: General chatter
- Topic: How big are allotments?
- Replies: 50
- Views: 15035
Thank you Tigger. Redwillowrose, good luck. I think I was in a similar position 4 years back when I took over the clearing of my two plots, which hadn't been cultivated for at least a year. It took surprisingly little time to clear, but you could stage it, say a quarter or a third under cultivation ...
- Sun Sep 10, 2006 11:15 pm
- Forum: General chatter
- Topic: How big are allotments?
- Replies: 50
- Views: 15035
- Fri Sep 08, 2006 8:30 pm
- Forum: Best practices
- Topic: Tomato flavour diluted
- Replies: 13
- Views: 4653
When I started growing toms my aunt told me that when I used the tomorite I should give the leaves a sprinkling as well as the base. Now that I use organic products, I am very happy to do this with SM3, a seaweed based fertiliser, because the leaves of all plants benefit from it. But, oh thanks, Cha...
- Fri Sep 08, 2006 8:20 pm
- Forum: Best practices
- Topic: Gooseberry cuttings
- Replies: 4
- Views: 2828
Hello there, Figtree. I once knocked a shoot off a gooseberry bush by accident, stuck it in the ground and 2 years leter it was fruiting. However, if the person you are getting the cuttings from has really bushy bushes, it might be to your mutual interest to dig them up and divide them. Then his/her...
- Fri Sep 08, 2006 8:13 pm
- Forum: Best practices
- Topic: Raised beds
- Replies: 6
- Views: 3156
Amo, I can endorse what almost everyone has said. As a teacher, I frequently have rather less than your 3-5 hours, and I am very glad of school holidays. I am in the process of changing my allotment to raised beds and I don't think you'll regret it. As you get each bed ready you will be able to grow...
- Fri Sep 08, 2006 8:06 pm
- Forum: Best practices
- Topic: Butternut squash mystery
- Replies: 8
- Views: 3340
My schedule is similar to yours, Wellie. I recently found one small green squash forming on my one surviving plant [the others turned out to be pumpkins, so I've got rather more of those than i thought!] I should learn. Each year I despair of getting any butternuts, and then sure enough, they start ...
- Fri Sep 08, 2006 7:59 pm
- Forum: Seasonal tips
- Topic: Cauliflower help
- Replies: 11
- Views: 6264
Thank you, Sanders. I've personally never bothered to protect the curds, and their taste has not been affected, but yes, come to think of it, they have become slightly discoloured some of them. I only plant in August for spring maturing, so the issue of sun is not such a problem as for summer/autumn...
- Fri Sep 08, 2006 7:49 pm
- Forum: General chatter
- Topic: How big are allotments?
- Replies: 50
- Views: 15035
DahlisMarie, I have 4 pictures of my allotment in driest Bedford [but we had had some rain when they were taken]. As I suspected, however, I have no idea how to get them from the cd they are on onto this site. I'll keep on trying, but, if you are still interested, you can email me with your email ad...
- Fri Sep 08, 2006 7:41 pm
- Forum: General chatter
- Topic: I'm getting married!
- Replies: 64
- Views: 19262
- Sun Aug 27, 2006 9:35 pm
- Forum: Harvesting Q&A
- Topic: Rocket seeds
- Replies: 7
- Views: 4096
Yes, Johnboy, I have had similar experience with seeds of Outdoor Girl. I collected them from one fruit the summer before last, dried them on kitched towel before storing them in the fridge. The plants came up excellently the following spring and fruited well, but this year the fruits have been rath...
- Sun Aug 27, 2006 9:20 pm
- Forum: Best practices
- Topic: elephant garlic
- Replies: 6
- Views: 3260
Thanks a lot for this topic everyone. This is the first year I have grown elephant garlic and I assumed that I could plant a row of them this autumn and see how they fared. But now I'll do that with half of them and pot up the rest - thanks for that tip, Deb - and overwinter them in the greenhouse. ...