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by Geoff
Sat Nov 11, 2023 9:42 am
Forum: General chatter
Topic: Autumn Bits and Bobs.
Replies: 182
Views: 733027

Re: Autumn Bits and Bobs.

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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by Geoff
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.
by Geoff
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.
by Geoff
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 ...
by Geoff
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...
by Geoff
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?
by Geoff
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 ...
by Geoff
Mon Oct 16, 2023 7:56 am
Forum: General chatter
Topic: Autumn Bits and Bobs.
Replies: 182
Views: 733027

Re: Autumn Bits and Bobs.

Why when you strip out heavily blighted tomatoes are the side shoots lush green and full of flowers?
by Geoff
Sun Oct 15, 2023 3:18 pm
Forum: General chatter
Topic: Autumn Bits and Bobs.
Replies: 182
Views: 733027

Re: Autumn Bits and Bobs.

Well that's my hands wrecked - just picked over 4lbs of sloes.
by Geoff
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.
by Geoff
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.
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by Geoff
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!
by Geoff
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.
by Geoff
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...
by Geoff
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.