I looked up my records for last year. The last week of March saw temps of about 5-8 degrees with some nights below zero. Only the snow is a bit later this year.
mike
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- Thu Mar 22, 2007 6:15 pm
- Forum: General chatter
- Topic: Global Warming
- Replies: 71
- Views: 23621
I did see the programme. I also saw an article [I can't remember in which newspaper] from one of the scientists interviewed. He was rather angry that he had been misrepresented in the programme. It seemed that he was saying the phenomena were not much to worry about, whereas when he was spoken to hi...
- Thu Mar 22, 2007 6:00 pm
- Forum: General chatter
- Topic: Dead compost bins
- Replies: 24
- Views: 7873
I've only just returned to this forum because work has really kept me occupied, so sorry if I've missed things. I would be surprised if the hot summer is responsibnle for poor compost, because mine rotted down quite quickly. I'm no expert, but I can say that one thing which has made a difference for...
- Sun Feb 04, 2007 5:51 pm
- Forum: Seasonal tips
- Topic: Sapro Mira Supplier
- Replies: 4
- Views: 3259
- Mon Jan 22, 2007 6:21 pm
- Forum: Weeds, Pests and Diseases
- Topic: Is this a friend or foe
- Replies: 15
- Views: 8687
- Wed Jan 17, 2007 7:00 pm
- Forum: Seasonal tips
- Topic: Disappointing winter crops
- Replies: 6
- Views: 3508
Thanks everyone. I also had a feeling that raised beds may not have been a very good idea for my Bedford Fillbasket sprouts, even though I had staked them. I'll do what I suggested - use up all my old seed, which did, incidentally, germinate very well, and grow half a dozen of those as well as an eq...
- Sat Jan 13, 2007 9:47 pm
- Forum: Seasonal tips
- Topic: Disappointing winter crops
- Replies: 6
- Views: 3508
Disappointing winter crops
Happy New Year to you all. I wonder whether anyone has come up against a poor harvest of crops which normally do well. This winter, although I've just dug up some good parsnips from 4-year-old seed, my sprouts and about half the celeriac plants have produced very meagre crops. The celeriac roots are...
- Sat Jan 13, 2007 9:36 pm
- Forum: Seasonal tips
- Topic: Chilli Seed
- Replies: 3
- Views: 2511
What you say makes eminent sense to me - yet I am amazed every year at the abundant crop of hot peppers which my fellow-allotmenteers manage to grow in the summer months outside. Of course, they've started them off as you advise. Perhaps they like the dry conditions which we normally get in Bedford....
- Mon Dec 25, 2006 12:36 am
- Forum: General chatter
- Topic: HAPPY CHRISTMAS EVERY ONE
- Replies: 51
- Views: 13887
- Fri Dec 08, 2006 9:58 pm
- Forum: General chatter
- Topic: Now i've heard everything
- Replies: 16
- Views: 5259
I talked to a woman some months ago who wasn't allowed to sell her blackcurrant jam at the WI stall any more as she didn't have a pickling licence. On the multicultural issue, don't let anyone tell you the Christmas is offensive to Moslems or anyone else. Our Moslem neighbours pipped us at the post ...
- Fri Dec 08, 2006 9:48 pm
- Forum: General chatter
- Topic: GM potatoes
- Replies: 56
- Views: 17591
- Mon Dec 04, 2006 10:22 pm
- Forum: General chatter
- Topic: Joseph Paxton
- Replies: 14
- Views: 5661
- Mon Dec 04, 2006 10:18 pm
- Forum: General chatter
- Topic: Metric deficiencies
- Replies: 15
- Views: 5417
- Mon Dec 04, 2006 10:06 pm
- Forum: General chatter
- Topic: KG Plot
- Replies: 10
- Views: 4699
Maybe it's also a question of time. If KG wanted to get theirs constructed quickly, they needed to get their materials quickly as available, maybe donated, maybe sponsored, who knows? I personally am prepared to spend a few years, so I'll collect wood as I am able to find it [I'm lucky to work at a ...
- Mon Dec 04, 2006 9:55 pm
- Forum: General chatter
- Topic: GM potatoes
- Replies: 56
- Views: 17591
Now this is interesting. My immediate reaction to this when I first read of it was that there should not be the same objection to this form of GM as to others, as it is from a related species. It is doing in a lab what our ancestors did over decades with wild grass to produce wheat and what we still...