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- Fri May 19, 2006 5:05 pm
- Forum: Best practices
- Topic: Eucalyptus
- Replies: 15
- Views: 6048
hack away
I cut a five year old euc right back in May/June a few years ago as my neighbours were getting a bit freaked by the height of it. It looked a bit shocked for a year then bounced back and produced a bushy shrub rather than a huge tree. I think they may be indestructible.
- Sun May 14, 2006 8:00 pm
- Forum: General chatter
- Topic: KG Giveaways
- Replies: 10
- Views: 4815
I won!
I won some 6X manure stuff and tickets to Harrogate Spring Flower Show, oh and a trug thingy. All over about 6 years, but it does work. And I'm not telling you my secret....
- Sun Apr 09, 2006 6:50 am
- Forum: Best practices
- Topic: acid soil
- Replies: 5
- Views: 2665
Before you go mad with the lime test again just to make sure. Most veggies need a neutral to alkaline soil to grow well, brassicas certainly do. so you may have a lot of work to do to get results. It may be more practical to do raised beds and fill them with imported topsoil with a better pH. Howeve...
- Sat Apr 08, 2006 6:39 pm
- Forum: Tools and Machinery
- Topic: ''Can't do without'' tools/machinery-greenhouse etc???
- Replies: 6
- Views: 4713
My experience of buying tools at car boots is to beware. They are cheap but often when you get them home you wonder why you bought them with wobbly heads splintery handles etc. I've also lost a few tools to two legged vermin will almost certainly be shifting their ill gotten gains at car boot sales....
- Sat Apr 08, 2006 6:06 pm
- Forum: Weeds, Pests and Diseases
- Topic: Bog wort.
- Replies: 5
- Views: 4277
- Sat Apr 08, 2006 5:58 pm
- Forum: Seasonal tips
- Topic: RATS
- Replies: 6
- Views: 4307
Oh yes, and digging up all the seedlings in the polytunnel, eating tulip bulbs, beetroot, carrots, chives (but not garlic or onion sets), soap and teabags. Fantastically destructive varmints, I seem to be beating them with copious applications of Eradirat (a maize based product that affects only rod...
- Fri Mar 31, 2006 6:35 am
- Forum: Weeds, Pests and Diseases
- Topic: Tulip Problems
- Replies: 3
- Views: 3071
- Fri Mar 31, 2006 6:32 am
- Forum: Best practices
- Topic: pricking out and potting on
- Replies: 3
- Views: 2542
Can't supply a list, but your leggy cabbages are not beyond hope. Brassicas and tomatoes can be potted on as deep as you like without ill effect, so you can plant them up to the first leaves and lose the legginess! Most other plants would not tolerate being buried in this way, but brassicas actually...
- Thu Mar 30, 2006 6:48 am
- Forum: General chatter
- Topic: Found anything odd in your compost bin ?
- Replies: 27
- Views: 9334
- Thu Mar 30, 2006 6:45 am
- Forum: Birds, Animals and Livestock
- Topic: books about chicken diseases
- Replies: 6
- Views: 4883
thanks
thank you for the advice, I'll check out the forum and splash some cash on Amazon
- Tue Mar 28, 2006 9:18 pm
- Forum: Birds, Animals and Livestock
- Topic: books about chicken diseases
- Replies: 6
- Views: 4883
books about chicken diseases
Can anyone recommend a really good book on chicken diseases, preferably one with a chart of symptoms to aid diagnosis?
- Tue Mar 28, 2006 9:10 pm
- Forum: Weeds, Pests and Diseases
- Topic: Has anyone ever tried the nematode for controlling slugs?
- Replies: 28
- Views: 13392
I've used them in the past with pretty good results - however the success relies on quite specific conditions that may not coincide with the time you have available to apply the nematodes (one year I ended up rushing to the allotment at dawn during a thunderstorm to apply them). I thought they were ...
- Tue Mar 28, 2006 7:06 am
- Forum: General chatter
- Topic: Germinating seeds - time/water/soil help plz
- Replies: 5
- Views: 2373
- Tue Mar 28, 2006 6:56 am
- Forum: Weeds, Pests and Diseases
- Topic: horsetail and couch grass
- Replies: 16
- Views: 12548
That was an allotment I had before I started this venture. The land I have now has a small patch in a very wet corner, this is an area I'm leaving as a boggy area so it doesn't matter that it is there. However I deliberately do not touch it, cultivate it or even walk through it when the spore heads ...
- Thu Mar 23, 2006 5:47 am
- Forum: Weeds, Pests and Diseases
- Topic: horsetail and couch grass
- Replies: 16
- Views: 12548