Pot noodles to horse muck - what a thread! . Brilliant Eh ? I often won't start a thread thinking it's too trivial but these wide-ranging discussions invite everyone in though it's competition for OH's ' Anything goes threads' Sorry OH. I still have Silent Spring, I was 35 when I bought it. I was a...

Im finding this nothing short of bizarre and though I'm not judging others views and reasonings there are many more avoidable items of crap that get into soil than animal evacuations, even our own evacuations, bodies even, will be dealt with by what lives in healthy soil. At some point during my app...

Thanks OH, I'm getting it now and thanks to all of you for persevering in this matter. A lot of new gardeners and some that have been gardening for years still don't get it but I was on the case from the beginning even though I was mostly changing things, seems like changing things is close to what ...

So what you are saying and RHS have either omitted to say or more likely I haven't understood is that relying on composted waste is a gamble but you need to use it. Sounds like I had a few lucky years Geoff, so you add granular or powdered fertilizer like FBB or bone meal on top of the composted gar...

I already found some information on composted materials. NUTRIENT RICH COMPOSTED MATERIALS. Cocoa shells. Garden waste. Spent mushroom compost. Worm compost. Lawn mowings. Poultry manure. Hay. Vegetable waste. Seaweed. The list includes material that is low in nutrient or has non like straw, sawdust...

Thanks for the recipe Snooky, I've bought bone meal online from ELIXIR garden supplies, I know they do super phosphate but isn't bone meal a high phosphate ? Geoff, your view on garden compost surprises me and though I'm hardly qualified to disagree I have never used fertilizer until this year relyi...

The soil in the bed I had cleared for potatoes seemed lifeless so I dug in the easiest obtainable garden-centre farmyard manure. My previous potato crops were appreciated but not many spuds to each plant so I must be getting the nutrients wrong and wonder what is in " Potato fertiliser" th...

I used to do 14 hours a day and still coping at 70. The recent years have been a struggle though today I'm on rocket fuel at 75. BORAGE TEA. Borage tea. It takes a few days to kick-in for me but it works for me and the white witch that set me up to use it. Right now I'm hurting on everything below m...

You can imagine the delights of living in between Goodwick and St Davids, I can see the sea but can't hear it. However, salty air brings problems to gardening and the wind can be merciless even from the south where it had a bit of land to go over before it got to me. Spuds and carrots then OH, I alr...

Are you placing the farmyard manure under the potato seedlings ? I bought a few bags of farmyard manure two years ago as a trail, it was easy to mix into the soil and seemed to be blended with either peat or composted garden waste. Very nice and easy to work with but I got told off for messing the b...

Isn't blight a summer thing that comes with moist/ warm spells ? By the time you have foliage won't the danger be past OH ? I may get to clearing a bed for spuds and carrots today if the weather is cloudy, I'm not good at manual work for more than two hours but if it's sunny and hot I sit down in th...

Ahhh Westi, always so-so sensible. Cravings just cannot be relied on though there is evidence, anecdote and scientific, that we crave what we need. On the one hand you crave for sweet stuff if your blood sugar goes low, that's unreliable. Fat people eating sweets and chocolate go hypoglycaemic even ...

This has been my first season that I used chemical fertiliser, mostly growmore but I did use bone meal on the hedging plants. Garlic doesn't like growmore, nor do onions. Everything is growing though after using cow muck for years I got used to cow muck performance. I didn't use comfrey this year be...

Driving home tomorrow Geoff, I wonder if I could get a crop of spuds by planting now so I don't get hit with disease ?

What I love about this forum amongs many things is that we don't have 'Topic-police' which means blabbing and digressing which is what I do a lot seems ok. Nice.

(Smile) Research done some years ago showed that wine has been part of the Mediteranian diet for generations and that wine and beer were preferred to water unless got washing clothes and other utilities. More recently some idiot pointed out that even an egg cup full of wine is bad for us. This bomba...