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- Thu Oct 26, 2006 10:15 pm
- Forum: Weeds, Pests and Diseases
- Topic: pigeon controll.
- Replies: 8
- Views: 5244
pigeon controll.
Dear All, I have seen the perfect pigeon control on the BBC website. Apparently there is a pelican in one of the london parks gulping down the local pigeons. It has been caught on camera with many witnesses. Now, what I want to know is does anyone think that pelicans count as wildfowl or poultry wit...
- Wed Oct 18, 2006 10:09 pm
- Forum: General chatter
- Topic: seed potatoes - what varieties?
- Replies: 13
- Views: 4934
Dear Alison,
just looked for the website as it is a while since I last looked and the address is www.europotato.org/menu.php
or put european potato database into the search engine will do.
Regards Sally Wright.
just looked for the website as it is a while since I last looked and the address is www.europotato.org/menu.php
or put european potato database into the search engine will do.
Regards Sally Wright.
- Wed Oct 18, 2006 10:05 pm
- Forum: General chatter
- Topic: seed potatoes - what varieties?
- Replies: 13
- Views: 4934
Dear Alison, I grow lady christl and find it to be an excellent new potato and if you have too many they make good bakers when they are mature. I grow charlotte as my mids they are good new/salads and when they are mature (and I grow extra specially) they are the best ever roasters and will keep unt...
- Wed Oct 11, 2006 12:55 am
- Forum: Best practices
- Topic: Currants
- Replies: 11
- Views: 5007
- Wed Oct 11, 2006 12:49 am
- Forum: Best practices
- Topic: Lemon verbena
- Replies: 28
- Views: 15591
- Mon Oct 09, 2006 5:31 pm
- Forum: Best practices
- Topic: Lemon verbena
- Replies: 28
- Views: 15591
Dear All, a lemon verbena has been growing at my place of work for over 16 years outside in the ground. It has a well drained gravelly soil and a very sheltered spot against a south wall. This year it got to over 8 feet and the flowers smell different to the leaves. I cover the rootstock with some o...
- Tue Sep 26, 2006 11:21 pm
- Forum: General chatter
- Topic: Eating Spuds
- Replies: 1
- Views: 1696
- Sat Sep 23, 2006 12:30 am
- Forum: Cooking tips
- Topic: Solid Damson Jam
- Replies: 2
- Views: 3154
- Tue Sep 19, 2006 12:26 am
- Forum: General chatter
- Topic: What is this? we call it the Triffid!
- Replies: 13
- Views: 4875
- Sun Sep 17, 2006 11:35 pm
- Forum: General chatter
- Topic: What is this? we call it the Triffid!
- Replies: 13
- Views: 4875
Dear All, this is datura stramonium, it is exceedingly poisonous and should be disposed of before it spreads. Wear gloves as the juice can cause irritation and if you get it in your eyes can be very nasty. A Modern Herbal by Mrs M Grieve will give you more information. She classes it alongside bella...
- Mon Sep 11, 2006 11:14 pm
- Forum: Harvesting Q&A
- Topic: Beetroot, another way to serve.
- Replies: 6
- Views: 6501
Dear Quirkas, Beetroot jelly is simple to make. Cook the beetroot as normal and dice, slice or crinkle cut as desired. get a fruit jelly, raspberry or blackcurrant for red beetroot. Lemon for white or yellow beets. Make up the jelly with 3/4 pint of hot vinegar and water. The ratio of vinegar/water ...
- Thu Sep 07, 2006 9:16 pm
- Forum: Harvesting Q&A
- Topic: Pink Fir Apples
- Replies: 18
- Views: 14185
Dear Johnboy, I think the delay between cutting and harvest is to allow the little stalk that attaches the potato to the stems to shrivel and die. If it didn't then the potatoes would be discarded with the remains of the haulms and a portion of the crop would be wasted. At least that's my theory any...
- Thu Sep 07, 2006 9:06 pm
- Forum: Harvesting Q&A
- Topic: Butternut Squash
- Replies: 6
- Views: 4036
Dear Chantal, all squashes intended for storage need to be left until the first light frost of Autumn before picking. Unless that is the rain starts again or the plant has died and gone crispy. To aid ripening on the plant lift the squash off the ground onto a piece of carpet or straw and cut away a...
- Wed Sep 06, 2006 12:16 am
- Forum: Harvesting Q&A
- Topic: Pink Fir Apples
- Replies: 18
- Views: 14185
Dear Fen, pfa are the longest growing potato available in the uk which need around 18-20 weeks from planting to maturity. If yours have not had so long then the tops need to remain for now. I tend to take off tops if they have blight, that they have become so long they are a hazard to passing cyclis...
- Tue Aug 22, 2006 1:25 pm
- Forum: Growing places
- Topic: PollyTunnel
- Replies: 4
- Views: 4188
Dear DahlisMarie, A poly tunnel(note the one l) is short for polythene tunnel. This is a large sheet of plastic stretched over two or more large hoops and the excess sheeting is held down by strips of wood at the base or is dug into a trench around the perimeter of the structure. Doors are in either...