Lovely Autumn morning after a bit of a ground frost. I hope the leaves last a bit longer, our valley has been beautiful this year.
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- Sat Nov 11, 2023 9:42 am
- Forum: General chatter
- Topic: Autumn Bits and Bobs.
- Replies: 182
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- Tue Oct 31, 2023 7:35 pm
- Forum: Harvesting Q&A
- Topic: Amyone know about Tomatillos ?
- Replies: 5
- Views: 7146
Re: Amyone know about Tomatillos ?
We grow them every year outside for salsa and pickle. We used to grow mixed ones and always thought the green ones did better so the packet we have used for the last few years is green only.
- Mon Oct 30, 2023 3:35 pm
- Forum: Harvesting Q&A
- Topic: Foraging
- Replies: 15
- Views: 31404
Re: Foraging
All we forage for are blackberries and sloes. With you on fungi TB, never touch them wild or cultivated.
- Mon Oct 30, 2023 3:31 pm
- Forum: Best practices
- Topic: What are you going to use when peat is gone ?
- Replies: 11
- Views: 26951
Re: What are you going to use when peat is gone ?
I've been using homemade John Innes type formulations for a few years simply using leafmould in place of peat. My commonest potting mix is 5 parts soil, 2 parts leafmould and 1 part sharp sand. I add base fertiliser and sometimes lime and/or extra potash or phosphate depending on what I am using it ...
- Sun Oct 29, 2023 1:58 pm
- Forum: General chatter
- Topic: Autumn Bits and Bobs.
- Replies: 182
- Views: 733027
Re: Autumn Bits and Bobs.
Usually they are nearly all well used apart from the remaining two letter box ones, I've never had much success with those and am gradually putting standard fronts on them, but this year there were quite a few that looked like they had little or no use. There seem to have been plenty of young tits a...
- Sun Oct 29, 2023 11:22 am
- Forum: General chatter
- Topic: Autumn Bits and Bobs.
- Replies: 182
- Views: 733027
Re: Autumn Bits and Bobs.
Well that's my annual room service and repair of my 28 bird boxes completed. Well 27 really, as I started on one a mouse popped its head up in the hole so I took pity and left it in peace. Made a change from all the slugs, why do they climb up into the boxes?
- Tue Oct 17, 2023 7:37 am
- Forum: Growing Advice for beginners
- Topic: Rhubarb
- Replies: 4
- Views: 3305
Re: Rhubarb
I don't think rhubarb needs full sun. Mine is against a fence on my Western boundary so it does get quite a lot though one end of the bed is shaded by the polytunnel, it grows well. What it really wants is a heavy very rich soil so putting it in to replace a shrub will take quite a bit of work. Dig ...
- Mon Oct 16, 2023 7:56 am
- Forum: General chatter
- Topic: Autumn Bits and Bobs.
- Replies: 182
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Re: Autumn Bits and Bobs.
Why when you strip out heavily blighted tomatoes are the side shoots lush green and full of flowers?
- Sun Oct 15, 2023 3:18 pm
- Forum: General chatter
- Topic: Autumn Bits and Bobs.
- Replies: 182
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Re: Autumn Bits and Bobs.
Well that's my hands wrecked - just picked over 4lbs of sloes.
- Sun Oct 15, 2023 9:03 am
- Forum: General chatter
- Topic: Autumn Bits and Bobs.
- Replies: 182
- Views: 733027
Re: Autumn Bits and Bobs.
Proper white over frost here too, down to -1.1°C.
- Thu Oct 12, 2023 8:02 am
- Forum: General chatter
- Topic: Autumn Bits and Bobs.
- Replies: 182
- Views: 733027
Re: Autumn Bits and Bobs.
Not quite frosts here.
- Thu Oct 12, 2023 8:00 am
- Forum: Cooking tips
- Topic: Need more ideas for Toms!
- Replies: 12
- Views: 5384
Re: Need more ideas for Toms!
Now there's a thread that could run and run - nominations!
- Wed Oct 11, 2023 9:42 pm
- Forum: General chatter
- Topic: Cod liver oil
- Replies: 10
- Views: 26495
Re: Cod liver oil
I used to be given cod liver oil and food office orange juice separately not mixed SM! (early 50's).
At the time my mother was on some weird medicine for a stomach problem that was basically hydrochloric acid, she gave me that by mistake instead of the clo one day, now that was foul.
At the time my mother was on some weird medicine for a stomach problem that was basically hydrochloric acid, she gave me that by mistake instead of the clo one day, now that was foul.
- Sun Oct 08, 2023 7:46 pm
- Forum: General chatter
- Topic: Late Summer Bit and Bobs.
- Replies: 172
- Views: 223673
Re: Late Summer Bit and Bobs.
Must ring our friends in Argyl, on the banks of the Kyles of Bute. Friday was pretty foul here but nothing like Scotland. Saturday was better, moved all my chrysants into the greenhouse. Today has been very pleasant, sorted my leafmould area ready to start collecting and cut the grass. OH - how's co...
- Fri Oct 06, 2023 4:23 pm
- Forum: General chatter
- Topic: Desert Island Dish.
- Replies: 5
- Views: 6049
Re: Desert Island Dish.
I suppose I have got to be consistent and say chips, runny fried egg with bread and butter.