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- Tue Aug 21, 2007 11:13 pm
- Forum: Seasonal tips
- Topic: Mayan Gold 'Legacy Potatoes'
- Replies: 16
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- Tue Aug 21, 2007 11:17 am
- Forum: Seasonal tips
- Topic: Mayan Gold 'Legacy Potatoes'
- Replies: 16
- Views: 9095
- Tue Jul 17, 2007 4:18 pm
- Forum: Best practices
- Topic: What can I sow now?
- Replies: 17
- Views: 9138
I'm also not sure they are as effective as 'ordinary' pellets, it is difficult to judge accurately (my fault) as I also used nematodes (once this season) and slug pubs. Carrots were certainly not protected as well as I would have liked, and I had to resow twice to get decent rows. Other previously v...
- Tue Jul 17, 2007 11:33 am
- Forum: Best practices
- Topic: What can I sow now?
- Replies: 17
- Views: 9138
I've decided to follow Sarah Raven's advice and have used some spare patches of ground to grow a late show of cutting flowers. Yesterday I lifted the rest of my banana shallots (very good they are too!)and planted the vacant bed with multi-headed sunflowers, zinneas and various calendula. I have als...
- Thu May 17, 2007 5:50 pm
- Forum: Best practices
- Topic: 2007 Banana Shallots
- Replies: 15
- Views: 6665
- Fri Apr 27, 2007 6:56 am
- Forum: General chatter
- Topic: Anyone know about spiders - one bit me
- Replies: 33
- Views: 13322
Horseflies have a pair of mandibles that puncture the skin....see below, they are charming little critters...
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- Thu Apr 26, 2007 10:42 pm
- Forum: General chatter
- Topic: Anyone know about spiders - one bit me
- Replies: 33
- Views: 13322
Just back from the pharmacy - the lady was bit a gruff poked my leg till it hurt and proclaimed its a bite and packed me off with some noxious hydrocortisone cream. Deb - you can clearly see two puncture markes at the centre of the welt (made by the fangs of the spider i guess - yuk) did yours have...
- Wed Apr 25, 2007 7:54 pm
- Forum: General chatter
- Topic: Anyone know about spiders - one bit me
- Replies: 33
- Views: 13322
- Wed Apr 18, 2007 9:17 pm
- Forum: General chatter
- Topic: Watch out for caterpillars!
- Replies: 6
- Views: 3185
Re: Watch out for caterpillars!
My early cabbages were outside hardening off (joke - only 76.6F here!) and the small whites had already laid their eggs. Gave my brassicas a quick once over just before I planted them today......several small eggs on the undersides of the leaves, obviously got them when mine were being hardened off...
- Tue Apr 10, 2007 2:10 pm
- Forum: Best practices
- Topic: Fish in your butt
- Replies: 24
- Views: 13620
- Mon Mar 19, 2007 12:06 pm
- Forum: Best practices
- Topic: vivaldi seed potatoes
- Replies: 2
- Views: 2596
T&M have them...
Got an email from Thompson & Morgan this morning, offering 10 Vivaldi potatoes and 5 Mayan Gold for £3.49...remembered this post!
- Mon Mar 19, 2007 12:00 pm
- Forum: Best practices
- Topic: Banana shallot progress?
- Replies: 8
- Views: 3148
- Sat Mar 17, 2007 6:10 pm
- Forum: Best practices
- Topic: Banana shallot progress?
- Replies: 8
- Views: 3148
Banana shallot progress?
How is everyone growing bananas shallots this year doing with them? I started one batch off in early January, they are now in 4" pots in my cold greenhouse. Batch 2 sown a couple of weeks ago are pricked out into modules, and I'm going to try an early April sowing too, as there were divided opi...
- Sun Feb 11, 2007 12:22 pm
- Forum: General chatter
- Topic: State of allotment
- Replies: 27
- Views: 10609
It only looks so neat 'coz it's mostly empty at the moment! The allium raised beds have overwintering onions, garlic and shallots growing well, the others are either manured and covered (I am going to try JB's method for root beds, removing the manure before planting time) which adds to the 'neat' l...
- Sat Feb 10, 2007 3:58 pm
- Forum: Seasonal tips
- Topic: seasonal tasks in KG
- Replies: 37
- Views: 14281