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- Mon Jan 01, 2007 6:22 am
- Forum: General chatter
- Topic: potato help needed
- Replies: 14
- Views: 5201
Welcome to potato growing. Once you have got used to your own crops you will never want to buy potatoes again - so you will need to try to be self-sufficient. You have had so many suggestions that you will soon be back where you started - with a bewildering choice. I won't add to the problem by list...
- Sat Dec 30, 2006 11:44 am
- Forum: Weeds, Pests and Diseases
- Topic: 'Preferred' Slug Killer
- Replies: 17
- Views: 9440
At the moment my vegetable garden is open house to our hens and ducks. Come summer there will be no significant numbers of slugs or snails, at least judging by previous years' experience. This year I have had no slug damage in potatoes or anything above ground. Just wish I could let them into the po...
- Sat Dec 30, 2006 7:00 am
- Forum: Technical Data
- Topic: Swiss Chard
- Replies: 29
- Views: 24327
Whichever way you look at it, it seems that beet/chard/spinach all belong to the same family if Chenopodiaceae are all subsumed under Amaranthaceae. I have learned a lot more than I expected from this thread. Chenopodiaceae From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Chenopodiaceae is the botanical name ...
- Fri Dec 29, 2006 12:29 pm
- Forum: Technical Data
- Topic: Swiss Chard
- Replies: 29
- Views: 24327
Certainly beta is a goosefoot (tired of trying to spell Cheno*******iae) family member.
Research this http://www.ars-grin.gov/cgi-bin/npgs/html/family.pl?254
And here's another to look at http://www.plantnames.unimelb.edu.au/Sorting/Beta.html
Best wishes Alan
Research this http://www.ars-grin.gov/cgi-bin/npgs/html/family.pl?254
And here's another to look at http://www.plantnames.unimelb.edu.au/Sorting/Beta.html
Best wishes Alan
- Fri Dec 29, 2006 12:19 pm
- Forum: Best practices
- Topic: Best Gardening Books List
- Replies: 19
- Views: 10610
- Fri Dec 29, 2006 10:01 am
- Forum: Technical Data
- Topic: Swiss Chard
- Replies: 29
- Views: 24327
- Fri Dec 29, 2006 7:32 am
- Forum: Technical Data
- Topic: Swiss Chard
- Replies: 29
- Views: 24327
Hi JB bonjour CJ. Yes it certainly is. For more on the huge goosefoot family have a look at m Happy reading. We too have masses of wild sea beet growing on the shores of Menai around Caernarfon. It is very good in the spring - just like perpetual spinach/chard, but maybe a little stronger in both ta...
- Thu Dec 28, 2006 12:06 pm
- Forum: Technical Data
- Topic: Swiss Chard
- Replies: 29
- Views: 24327
Perpetual spinach, which is usually listed with, or as a synonym for Swiss Chard, is another plant, but not "another plant altogether" as Johnboy suggests. Same Beta Vulgaris ssp Cicla, only smaller. Have a look at this article - http://www.floridata.com/ref/B/beta_vul.cfm
- Sun Dec 24, 2006 2:29 pm
- Forum: Technical Data
- Topic: Pak Choi Joi Choi and other hybrids
- Replies: 3
- Views: 6449
- Sun Dec 24, 2006 2:15 pm
- Forum: General chatter
- Topic: Christmas Blues.
- Replies: 22
- Views: 6964
Well said Weed. We remember them every day. I prefer to remember that the Winter Solstice was two whole days ago. The days are now lengthening by 1 to 2 minutes every 24 hours. The holiness of this festival is that new life is about to burst with the coming of the light back to the world. Remind you...
- Sun Dec 17, 2006 2:11 pm
- Forum: Birds, Animals and Livestock
- Topic: A Merry Christmas to our feathered friends
- Replies: 2
- Views: 2653
A Merry Christmas to our feathered friends
Nadolig llawen a blwyddyn newydd dda i bob un ohonoch sy'n cadw ieir a hwyaid.
A merry Christmas and a Happy New Year to all of you who keep hens and ducks.
We have not appeared much recently in the forum Hope to see more of you in New Year.
A merry Christmas and a Happy New Year to all of you who keep hens and ducks.
We have not appeared much recently in the forum Hope to see more of you in New Year.
- Sun Dec 17, 2006 1:56 pm
- Forum: General chatter
- Topic: Has the world gone mad?
- Replies: 30
- Views: 10590
As I suggested in my previous post, we should not be marvelling at all this. Is nobody else but me and Alison worried about this? Is anyone doing anything about it? Maybe switch off a few unused lights, drive a bit less. And why don't we write to our local councils and ask them to switch off most of...
- Fri Dec 15, 2006 11:28 am
- Forum: Best practices
- Topic: French Shallots from Aldi
- Replies: 23
- Views: 10677
- Thu Dec 14, 2006 2:54 pm
- Forum: Seasonal tips
- Topic: Holly with berries for Christmas.
- Replies: 7
- Views: 3601
- Thu Dec 14, 2006 2:33 pm
- Forum: Best practices
- Topic: French Shallots from Aldi
- Replies: 23
- Views: 10677
I too have been growing Germor for several years, but not as long as Mike T. Since they grow reliably from year to year, they have got to be better value than any unnamed variety from a supermarket, however cheap they seem. Germor are pretty much the same as what the French chefs prefer - echallote ...