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- Thu Jun 15, 2006 9:46 am
- Forum: Harvesting Q&A
- Topic: Strawberries Hoarding
- Replies: 12
- Views: 7099
Hello there Malk! You can easily make jam from your frozen crop of strawberries, as, like you say, you can save them all up until you have a big enough quantity to go ahead. I have done this with raspberries and redcurrants too. (saving the redcurrants until I have something else to add too them, li...
- Mon Jun 12, 2006 10:03 am
- Forum: Best practices
- Topic: Aubergines and sunshine
- Replies: 13
- Views: 6763
Misting the plants really did the trick I now give them a good misting daily with one of those 1 litre trigger bottles and they're romping away and looking much healthier! The purple veined variety(Moneymaker? see opening message) are doing better by far,having flower buds and being about twice the...
- Tue Jun 06, 2006 11:11 am
- Forum: General chatter
- Topic: water diverters? please help!
- Replies: 4
- Views: 2445
- Tue Jun 06, 2006 11:07 am
- Forum: General chatter
- Topic: A plant identity puzzle for you.
- Replies: 26
- Views: 8016
- Tue Jun 06, 2006 11:03 am
- Forum: Best practices
- Topic: Aubergines and sunshine
- Replies: 13
- Views: 6763
Hi Mike! I have had moderate success with auby's in the greenhouse, but they are in the ground, not pots. they only get watered twice or so a week, and left to their own devices for the rest of the time. I feed them with comfrey 'water' once a week, as soon as the flowers appear. I usually get betwe...
- Fri Jun 02, 2006 10:08 am
- Forum: General chatter
- Topic: water diverters? please help!
- Replies: 4
- Views: 2445
water diverters? please help!
I am thinking of getting a rainwater diverter for my downpipe from the roof of my house, but I can't put the water butt next to the pipe. As I don't know how these things work, would it be OK to have the diverter, then a length of pipe from higher up on the downpipe, going across the top of the gate...
- Wed May 31, 2006 9:46 am
- Forum: Growing places
- Topic: Turf in greenhouse?
- Replies: 1
- Views: 2615
Hello Peter! I would stack the turf outside, but it has to covered or it will try and grow. You should(?) stack it grass-to-grass, soil-to-soil. I did this when I took up some grotty lawn, and I buried it under topsoil in my new raised planting area. About 6 months later when I started to plant ther...
- Fri May 26, 2006 4:47 pm
- Forum: General chatter
- Topic: Recommendations for Salad Spinner
- Replies: 9
- Views: 3155
- Fri May 19, 2006 9:57 am
- Forum: Seasonal tips
- Topic: new potatoes - then what?
- Replies: 9
- Views: 5163
big thankyou !
for alll of those suggestions! pumpkins is also a great idea, something that can deal co-habiting with a bit of couch and bindweed when it becomes rampant!
a very grateful retropants!
a very grateful retropants!
- Wed May 17, 2006 5:16 pm
- Forum: Seasonal tips
- Topic: new potatoes - then what?
- Replies: 9
- Views: 5163
- Wed May 17, 2006 3:21 pm
- Forum: Best practices
- Topic: Comfrey
- Replies: 21
- Views: 8674
- Wed May 17, 2006 12:34 pm
- Forum: Best practices
- Topic: Comfrey
- Replies: 21
- Views: 8674
pooey comfrey!
we have several water tanks, and add chopped comfrey plants to one of these and leave to stew. it don't 'alf pong! this pooey comfrey water is used, diluted to feed toms, peppers, courgettes etc etc. at the end of the season, the gunk is cleared from the bottom of the tank and added to the compost h...
- Wed May 17, 2006 12:30 pm
- Forum: Best practices
- Topic: conifer shreddings, too acidic?
- Replies: 8
- Views: 6734
Hi Stu_n! I think the shreddings will be good for blueberries, as they love an acid soil full of that sort of thing. We have mixed a load into the soil where we have planted ours , then put a really deep mulch of the shreddings around the plant. Can't tell if it's a success yet, as the plant is so s...
- Wed May 17, 2006 12:12 pm
- Forum: Seasonal tips
- Topic: new potatoes - then what?
- Replies: 9
- Views: 5163
new potatoes - then what?
Hello, my earlies are almost ready now, and I'd like to try and stop the area where they are from filling up with weeds, as growing the spuds there has really helped to keep them down (area previously gone to weeds due to lack of time!) Can you please suggest soemthing to follow the potaoes with, as...
- Wed May 17, 2006 9:51 am
- Forum: Best practices
- Topic: Is it time to panic yet ?
- Replies: 1
- Views: 2026
Hi Trevor, I've had this problem too, in my early years as a veg grower (ooh get her!!) Unfortunately, mice are keen on sweetcorn seeds, so you may have lost some to the little blighters! To avoid this happening to me again, I sow in pots in my green house (individually, as they do not really like r...