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by darkbrowneggs
Tue Jun 28, 2011 9:30 pm
Forum: Best practices
Topic: Shallots - replanting last years ???
Replies: 5
Views: 2243

Shallots - replanting last years ???

Hi all - I usually do well with shallots and keep some for next years seed. Last year I had some rot in some of mine so bought in all new seed shallots (which looked nice enough when they arrived) This years crop is as poor as I have ever grown. Not many shallots to a clump and some so small as to b...
by darkbrowneggs
Sun Jun 19, 2011 5:34 pm
Forum: Best practices
Topic: Salsify
Replies: 17
Views: 6014

Re: Salsify

I have an apology to make to Ken and NB. I am afraid that I have confused Salsify with Scozonera and I am full of embarrassment it is Scozonera that I grubbed out last year and it is Scozonera that I planted to ward off Carrot Root Fly. So for what I have written for Salsify please read Scozonera. ...
by darkbrowneggs
Fri Jun 10, 2011 11:18 am
Forum: Weeds, Pests and Diseases
Topic: Blighted Potato Haulms
Replies: 8
Views: 3649

Re: Blighted Potato Haulms

Hi Johnboy - I guess you have worked out now that I breed English Cuckoo Marans, and those eggs are from some of my girls. They don't always lay them that dark, but sometimes they are even darker As I say I am quite high here so somethings are a bit later, but I try to give shelter etc where I can, ...
by darkbrowneggs
Thu Jun 09, 2011 9:51 pm
Forum: Weeds, Pests and Diseases
Topic: Blighted Potato Haulms
Replies: 8
Views: 3649

Re: Blighted Potato Haulms

I think half my problem is that I grow potatoes for their taste, and not for their blight resistance. Its rather like those Flyaway carrots - I think the only reason the carrot fly don't attack them is that they don't taste of carrots, at least not the way I think carrots should taste This year I am...
by darkbrowneggs
Thu Jun 09, 2011 9:01 pm
Forum: Weeds, Pests and Diseases
Topic: Blighted Potato Haulms
Replies: 8
Views: 3649

Re: Blighted Potato Haulms

Hi Sue, Any blighted haulm here is bagged up and left to dry out and burnt later on in the year or early the next season. JB. Interesting - you are also not far from me so have same weather too Tell me, do you use paper bags or bin liner type, and if the later do you close or leave open. If open do...
by darkbrowneggs
Thu Jun 09, 2011 3:25 pm
Forum: Growing places
Topic: cucumbers
Replies: 8
Views: 5781

Re: cucumbers

I am planning 2 all female F1 cucumbers in the tunnel - Socrates, which was very successful last year and Saturn. I have also got some seedlings of a gherkin cucumber called Cornichon de Paris. The cornichon packet does not mention male flowers, so presumably they will have them and need them to fo...
by darkbrowneggs
Thu Jun 09, 2011 3:15 pm
Forum: Birds, Animals and Livestock
Topic: Badgers
Replies: 20
Views: 8137

Re: Badgers

A few weeks ago a badger started visiting our garden. It was gorgeous to see. It was last in the garden around 8.45pm last Monday and disappeared off when I went to get some fuel for the fire. Around 4am on that night/morning I was woken up by lots of screaming (animal screams) from the woodland ac...
by darkbrowneggs
Thu Jun 09, 2011 3:13 pm
Forum: General chatter
Topic: Hi there - Just thought I would introduce myself
Replies: 3
Views: 1479

Hi there - Just thought I would introduce myself

Hello all - I am Sue from Worcestershire. I love my garden, which is a wild and woolly woodland garden, with lots of flowers (and even more weeds) I also have a large veg area, and am pretty well self sufficient in fruit and veg, and also produce enough to support a large amount of wildlife (!?!) ie...
by darkbrowneggs
Thu Jun 09, 2011 1:42 pm
Forum: Weeds, Pests and Diseases
Topic: Blighted Potato Haulms
Replies: 8
Views: 3649

Blighted Potato Haulms

Hi All, every year I seem to get blight on my potatoes, and as I grow quite a lot I am left with a mass of greenery that I don't want to put on the compost and never seem able to get round to burning as they need to be left to dry and at that time of year it seems it rains all the time. Last year I ...