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by Mike Vogel
Thu Mar 22, 2007 6:20 pm
Forum: General chatter
Topic: snow
Replies: 24
Views: 7145

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
by Mike Vogel
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...
by Mike Vogel
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...
by Mike Vogel
Sun Feb 04, 2007 5:51 pm
Forum: Seasonal tips
Topic: Sapro Mira Supplier
Replies: 4
Views: 3259

Yes, T & M have them and so do ChaseOrganics [Organic Catalogue]. I had my batch delivered the other day. I've not tried them before, so can't comment yet.

mike
by Mike Vogel
Mon Jan 22, 2007 6:21 pm
Forum: Weeds, Pests and Diseases
Topic: Is this a friend or foe
Replies: 15
Views: 8687

Pardon my ignorance, Jenny, but your picture looks very much like a leatherjacket, the larva of the daddy-long-legs [crane fly to the cognoscenti].

mike
by Mike Vogel
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...
by Mike Vogel
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...
by Mike Vogel
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....
by Mike Vogel
Mon Dec 25, 2006 12:36 am
Forum: General chatter
Topic: HAPPY CHRISTMAS EVERY ONE
Replies: 51
Views: 13887

That's what I wanted to say, Grock, to you and all. You got there first. I hope you all have a successful 2007.

mike
by Mike Vogel
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 ...
by Mike Vogel
Fri Dec 08, 2006 9:48 pm
Forum: General chatter
Topic: GM potatoes
Replies: 56
Views: 17591

At the risk of appearing 2 years behind the conversation, I'd just like to take up JB's point about terminator seeds. In the "Organic Way"s last issue [p.18] we read that, while it is true that the government has supported the UN Biodiversity convention's imposition of a moratorium on this...
by Mike Vogel
Mon Dec 04, 2006 10:22 pm
Forum: General chatter
Topic: Joseph Paxton
Replies: 14
Views: 5661

What have I started?
by Mike Vogel
Mon Dec 04, 2006 10:18 pm
Forum: General chatter
Topic: Metric deficiencies
Replies: 15
Views: 5417

Hi OH. For what it's worth, pound comes from the Latin pondus , which means simply "weight". Libra [French livre ] was the Latin term for a specific weight of about 12 ounces, hence our pound, and a pound sterling was the value of silver of that weight. I don't know at what point it became...
by Mike Vogel
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 ...
by Mike Vogel
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...