Flea bettle love it so keep it covered with fleece from the day you sow it.
Jerry
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- Wed Jan 11, 2006 9:15 am
- Forum: Tools and Machinery
- Topic: Build-a-balls
- Replies: 4
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- Tue Jan 10, 2006 11:46 am
- Forum: Birds, Animals and Livestock
- Topic: Hens & Foxes
- Replies: 2
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I might hold of buying any just yet until we know the full extent of the bird flu problems in Turkey. Having said that I would try and buy POL birds in spring, these, if hybrids, will then lay well right through their first winter. Please try and get a minimum of three hens as 2 can cause problems w...
- Sat Jan 07, 2006 9:48 pm
- Forum: General chatter
- Topic: Johnboy.
- Replies: 18
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Dont forget you can oven dry them: Half or quarter ripe tomatoes and place on a rack in a roasting tray. Sprinkle over some dried mixed herbs and some good maldon sea salt. Place in a pre heated over on it's lowest setting. I put ours about 90 degrees. Leave in the oven until the toms are starting t...
- Fri Jan 06, 2006 3:28 pm
- Forum: Tools and Machinery
- Topic: pole hedgecutters
- Replies: 3
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Ryobi have an OK reputation but I have never used one myself. I have a Tanaka stimmer with a hedge cutter attachment I can swap over with and it is very good indeed. I have owned it for about 5 years and I use it to deal with some hawthorn and oak hedges about 12 foot tall and 6 foot deep. Before I ...
- Fri Jan 06, 2006 3:18 pm
- Forum: Best practices
- Topic: Red Brussell Sprouts
- Replies: 4
- Views: 3153
- Fri Jan 06, 2006 1:38 pm
- Forum: Best practices
- Topic: Which potatos should I grow?
- Replies: 16
- Views: 10861
- Fri Jan 06, 2006 1:33 pm
- Forum: Seasonal tips
- Topic: Sowing Seeds Now
- Replies: 33
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I tend to sow my sweet peas in November in a cold frame. They are about 3" now. I also sowed some carrots in deep pots in a cold greenhouse back in December which are up now and will give an early catch crop. I need to sow a few more. The next candidates for sowing will be onions and beetroot. Then ...