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- Tue Apr 25, 2006 10:05 pm
- Forum: General chatter
- Topic: What have u all been doing?
- Replies: 22
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Just been up the plot tonight, weeded my strawberry patch, nearly finished filling the runner bean trench with lots of quality compost from my various bins. I also put some pea plants in the ground, in peat pots (Lincoln) At about 8.30 the sun was setting and soft mist rolled over the neighbouring f...
- Tue Apr 25, 2006 9:56 pm
- Forum: Best practices
- Topic: brocolli seedlings - help please!!!
- Replies: 9
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- Tue Apr 25, 2006 9:47 pm
- Forum: General chatter
- Topic: Am I going crackers?
- Replies: 86
- Views: 26626
- Mon Apr 24, 2006 10:20 pm
- Forum: General chatter
- Topic: Am I going crackers?
- Replies: 86
- Views: 26626
I got that book too and there is a similar one on alotments called allotment folk it is also in the same format, I have three sheds at home and one on the plot, which has a primus stove and a couple of deckchairs with the obligatory lulu bucket, our parish council does not care what we put up, howev...
- Mon Apr 24, 2006 10:16 pm
- Forum: General chatter
- Topic: sooo exciting!
- Replies: 20
- Views: 8338
Most folk don't enjoy it the way we 'special ones' do, but my wife praises me up when she is serving visting family members with six choices of cheap tasty organic veg, so you will get your praise in the eating stage no doubt. I still scrape back my spuds to see what they are up too and enjoy the sp...
- Mon Apr 24, 2006 9:58 pm
- Forum: Best practices
- Topic: brocolli seedlings - help please!!!
- Replies: 9
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I did not have a cold frame until this year and had a tiny greenhouse. So you can make do if u put your seedlings outside, choose a sheltered corner, you can use anything to cover them up a night, sheets of crumpled newspaper, fleece, old lace curtains. This will all keep jack frost off, remember th...
- Mon Apr 24, 2006 9:46 pm
- Forum: Best practices
- Topic: brocolli seedlings - help please!!!
- Replies: 9
- Views: 4538
How big are they, and how overcrowded is the tray, the trick is to lift them out of the compost (I use the pointed end of a plastic plant label) before their routes get entangled, and into a small pot, a seed module or even better a peat pot so you can put em straight into the ground. Alternatively ...
- Sun Apr 23, 2006 10:08 pm
- Forum: General chatter
- Topic: Am I going crackers?
- Replies: 86
- Views: 26626
- Sun Apr 23, 2006 10:04 pm
- Forum: Tools and Machinery
- Topic: Greenhouse!!!
- Replies: 6
- Views: 5136
- Sun Apr 23, 2006 10:01 pm
- Forum: General chatter
- Topic: Am I going crackers?
- Replies: 86
- Views: 26626
- Sun Apr 23, 2006 9:58 pm
- Forum: General chatter
- Topic: What have u all been doing?
- Replies: 22
- Views: 7987
What have u all been doing?
The 'today I have been mostly...' thread was great last weekend so I thought that I would start one again.........So today (or this weekend, I have planted my second early spuds (charlotte mmmm lovely). Filled my bean trench full of home made compost, even lovelier......... Sewed cauli seeds in the ...
- Sun Apr 23, 2006 9:52 pm
- Forum: General chatter
- Topic: Am I going crackers?
- Replies: 86
- Views: 26626
- Sat Apr 22, 2006 10:39 pm
- Forum: Weeds, Pests and Diseases
- Topic: Egg-shells for slugs
- Replies: 14
- Views: 6287
- Sat Apr 22, 2006 9:39 pm
- Forum: General chatter
- Topic: Nightsoil
- Replies: 13
- Views: 4687
Hi Oldherb In the late 70's / early 80's I lived in a house in Hampshire which was a terrace of eight, we had the outside loo buildings stil in tact, we used them as tool sheds, down the bottom of the garden, there was a fantastic rhubarb patch which I am told was on the sight of the 'trench' althou...
- Fri Apr 21, 2006 10:25 pm
- Forum: Harvesting Q&A
- Topic: When to harvest and how?
- Replies: 5
- Views: 3997