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- Thu Mar 30, 2006 2:10 pm
- Forum: Best practices
- Topic: Lasagna Gardening - again!
- Replies: 4
- Views: 2884
Lasagna
There are one or two plants that have survived from earlier attempts to bring this strip under control. They cn be moved. Basically it's mostly tufty grass. I've got some seed potatoes I can put in, though I realise I'll have to cover them quite deeply because of the sinking phenomenon you mention. ...
- Wed Mar 29, 2006 2:22 pm
- Forum: Best practices
- Topic: Lasagna Gardening - again!
- Replies: 4
- Views: 2884
Lasagna gardening
Thanks, Peat. So how mean can I be if I get the perennials out (of which the worst is bramble)? Six inches? Eight inches?
Before long, I'll have loads of grass cuttings available. Last year I found I could convert these grass cuttings into compost fairly quickly, mixing them with shredded paper.
Before long, I'll have loads of grass cuttings available. Last year I found I could convert these grass cuttings into compost fairly quickly, mixing them with shredded paper.
- Tue Mar 28, 2006 11:52 am
- Forum: Weeds, Pests and Diseases
- Topic: Jaundiced garlic?
- Replies: 6
- Views: 5035
Yellow garlic
One of mine did the same. I thought it was dying and started to dig it up, but the roots were fine, so I left it. Now it seems to be putting up new green leaves. But I would be interested to know what the experts think...
- Tue Mar 28, 2006 11:49 am
- Forum: Best practices
- Topic: Lasagna Gardening - again!
- Replies: 4
- Views: 2884
Lasagna Gardening - again!
I've been reading up on 'Lasagna Gardening'. I know there have been some favourable comments recently on the forum. What struck me was the huge amount of organic material the author recommends using - a layer 18 inches to 2 foot thick,on top of wet cardboard or newspaper. Has anyone tried it and doe...
- Thu Mar 16, 2006 2:07 pm
- Forum: General chatter
- Topic: Winter purslane
- Replies: 3
- Views: 2291
Purslane under cloches
Hi Allan - I'm indebted again. This is my first winter growing winter purslane, having sampled it a year ago from the organic greens stall at our farmers' market. I've got a broad band of it growing under cloches. There are still plenty of seeds left in the packet (stored in the fridge), so I probab...
- Thu Mar 16, 2006 2:01 pm
- Forum: General chatter
- Topic: Find of the winter
- Replies: 7
- Views: 3272
Thanks
Thanks, Allan. Will almost certainly give them a try - I'm getting good at keeping most of my plot productive through the winter. Also, I agree with Beccy about Joy Larkom's great contribution. It's a great shame that the RHS dropped The Vegetable Garden Displayed, but Joy's Grow Your Own Vegetables...
- Wed Mar 15, 2006 11:40 am
- Forum: General chatter
- Topic: Find of the winter
- Replies: 7
- Views: 3272
Komatsuna
No, Jenny, I wouldn't say Komatsuna was like Pakchoi. Apparently it's Japanese bred, not Chinese. The common name is mustard spinach, but Joy Larkom says this is misleading because it's not mustardy and it's more closely related to turnip than anything else. It is a brassica, though, as I said in my...
- Tue Mar 14, 2006 11:14 am
- Forum: General chatter
- Topic: Winter purslane
- Replies: 3
- Views: 2291
Winter purslane
Winter purslane has been another success for me this winter. Again, I'm getting to the stage where I'll need this space soon for other things. Which brings me to the question. Winter purslane is great with other leaves in salads. Is there anything else you can do with it, i.e. does it cook well/at a...
- Tue Mar 14, 2006 11:11 am
- Forum: General chatter
- Topic: Find of the winter
- Replies: 7
- Views: 3272
Find of the winter
Just wanted to say that I've grown Komatsuna this winter for the first time, and have been very impressed. It has proved to be very hardy. We've been picking off leaves throughout the winter, and cooking them like spinach - they have a nice, mild flavour. They are now starting to send up flowering s...
- Tue Feb 28, 2006 12:03 pm
- Forum: General chatter
- Topic: KG April is here!
- Replies: 12
- Views: 4634
April issue
I haven't got my April issue yet but experience suggests I should get in tomorrow or in the next day or two. Over the last three or four years I've had no trouble whatsoever with subsciption copies of Kitchen Garden. Unlike my experience with an American art magazine I also buy, which at best reache...
- Fri Feb 24, 2006 2:03 pm
- Forum: General chatter
- Topic: BBC Weather hysteria
- Replies: 39
- Views: 14112
Weather - 'numbers'
The guy who irritates me is the one who is always on about the 'numbers' - 'The opening numbers in the South-west will be 4or 5', 'the closing number here, 7'. We know he means temperatures, but they are not the only numbers involved - there are also wind speeds, etc. Also, I've heard a local foreca...
- Thu Feb 16, 2006 9:10 am
- Forum: Birds, Animals and Livestock
- Topic: How do they do that?
- Replies: 7
- Views: 5255
Moles
Thanks, Sue. I think....
So what about the so-called humane mole traps?
So what about the so-called humane mole traps?
- Wed Feb 15, 2006 11:55 am
- Forum: Birds, Animals and Livestock
- Topic: How do they do that?
- Replies: 7
- Views: 5255
How do they do that?
We've lived in this house for 30 years - a field at the bottom of a large garden, a road on one side and two houses with large gardens on the other two sides. Suddenly, for the first time, we've got a mole working in a shrub border pretty well in the middle of the garden. Where did it come from? Was...
- Wed Feb 08, 2006 2:19 pm
- Forum: General chatter
- Topic: Shredded paper in compost
- Replies: 23
- Views: 10254
Paper shreddings in compost
Hi Chantal. The answer, broadly, is yes. I raised a question last year about making compost primarily from shredded newspaper and surplus grass cuttings. I think it was Allan who said that cardboard would work better because it would be squashed less easily and therefore would help air flow. However...
- Thu Feb 02, 2006 2:29 pm
- Forum: General chatter
- Topic: Leek problem
- Replies: 7
- Views: 4315
Leek problem
Thanks, everybody. Sorry I've been a bit slow to acknowledge your comments, but as you know the forum has been down for a couple of days. Good to hear that the trouble probably isn't white rot. The leeks themselves have been quite well blanched - inserted to the full depth of my biggest dibber, and ...