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- Wed Jun 28, 2017 10:19 pm
- Forum: Best practices
- Topic: Experimenting with peas
- Replies: 13
- Views: 4700
Re: Experimenting with peas
Hi Primroes and PP, Saving your own pea seeds is probably the easiest of seeds to save. I select pods down the row, whilst growing, and tie some red wool to then and I then pick and use the others for eating and leave the row to die down naturally and when all the foliage is totally brown I pull up ...
- Wed Jun 28, 2017 12:31 am
- Forum: Best practices
- Topic: Experimenting with peas
- Replies: 13
- Views: 4700
Re: Experimenting with peas
Hi Primrose, You can sow Peas up to the end of the month and about a couple of weeks later and still get a perfectly good late crop. I am toying with doing just that as I have enought seed left over for a thirty foot row and next year all the seed will be new. At the latter part of the year they hav...
- Tue Jun 27, 2017 12:16 am
- Forum: Best practices
- Topic: Mint - is there scientific proof that growing different types together affects the individual flavours?
- Replies: 8
- Views: 3259
Re: Mint - is there scientific proof that growing different types together affects the individual flavours?
Hi PP.
I would suggest that the flowers mix is another way to say cross pollination and you would have to sow the progeny on to note the difference.
I would suggest that the flowers mix is another way to say cross pollination and you would have to sow the progeny on to note the difference.
- Mon Jun 19, 2017 12:36 am
- Forum: General chatter
- Topic: Early Summer bits and bobs - 2017
- Replies: 241
- Views: 59256
Re: Early Summer bits and bobs - 2017
Hi Geoff,
Not sure that you are quite right about Poplar wood because I think you will find that Poplar wood is used to make matches. Of course there are several different Poplars and the wood of one might have flame resistent qualities and another the exact opposite.
Not sure that you are quite right about Poplar wood because I think you will find that Poplar wood is used to make matches. Of course there are several different Poplars and the wood of one might have flame resistent qualities and another the exact opposite.
- Fri Jun 16, 2017 4:15 am
- Forum: Seasonal tips
- Topic: Solstice, the best time to harvest most garlic.
- Replies: 27
- Views: 11469
Re: Solstice, the best time to harvest most garlic.
Well I must be honest. I needed garlic for a recipe and the cupboard was bare so pulled the garlic slightly early out of desperation and by strict convention it is not quite ready for harvest but will be in about a week. For your delight Geoff it was sort of spring sown. The Frenchy Rose' garlic is ...
- Wed Jun 14, 2017 10:38 pm
- Forum: Seasonal tips
- Topic: Solstice, the best time to harvest most garlic.
- Replies: 27
- Views: 11469
Re: Solstice, the best time to harvest most garlic.
I started my garlic off by pre-germinating it in moist vermiculite in a sealed polyethylene bag filled th air and sealed placed in my airing cupboard in an Endeavour to induce a root show before planting out. This I achieved and I am about to harvest and pulled a sample tonight and the variety is Fr...
- Mon Jun 12, 2017 2:12 pm
- Forum: Seasonal tips
- Topic: Shallots as spring onions
- Replies: 3
- Views: 2868
Re: Shallots as spring onions
Hi PP,
Onions grown in this fashion are called scallions and they are very widely grown in the Netherlands and are simply called onions in the green.
Onions grown in this fashion are called scallions and they are very widely grown in the Netherlands and are simply called onions in the green.
- Mon Jun 12, 2017 2:01 pm
- Forum: Seasonal tips
- Topic: Purple toadflax
- Replies: 4
- Views: 3789
Re: Purple toadflax
Hi Primrose,
The more up to date name of Purple Toadflax is Linaria Purpurea and it is a perennial. It is not a native plant and it is a plant originally from Italy which is quite popular in herbaceous borders and gives good colour.
The more up to date name of Purple Toadflax is Linaria Purpurea and it is a perennial. It is not a native plant and it is a plant originally from Italy which is quite popular in herbaceous borders and gives good colour.
- Mon Jun 12, 2017 1:36 pm
- Forum: Seasonal tips
- Topic: Fresh lawn clipping as mulch
- Replies: 42
- Views: 24206
Re: Fresh lawn clipping as mulch
Hi Richard,
Is the fertilizer additive Fe or FE. Fe is iron but do not recognize FE.
Is the fertilizer additive Fe or FE. Fe is iron but do not recognize FE.
- Mon Jun 12, 2017 2:45 am
- Forum: Seasonal tips
- Topic: Fresh lawn clipping as mulch
- Replies: 42
- Views: 24206
Re: Fresh lawn clipping as mulch
Hi John,
It doesn't matter which straw you use and as we grow Barley I said Barley but I really meant just straw. Masses of grass can almost liquify and the straw helps to prevent this and a foul smelling mess.
It doesn't matter which straw you use and as we grow Barley I said Barley but I really meant just straw. Masses of grass can almost liquify and the straw helps to prevent this and a foul smelling mess.
- Thu Jun 08, 2017 12:47 am
- Forum: General chatter
- Topic: General Election
- Replies: 38
- Views: 11453
Re: General Election
Channel 4 later on no doubt taking the P155 out of it all.
I'm prepared to emigrate if it doesn't go my way.
I'm prepared to emigrate if it doesn't go my way.
- Wed Jun 07, 2017 1:01 am
- Forum: General chatter
- Topic: General Election
- Replies: 38
- Views: 11453
Re: General Election
Hmmmmmm!
- Tue Jun 06, 2017 9:24 am
- Forum: Growing Advice for beginners
- Topic: Spring onion regrowing
- Replies: 18
- Views: 18558
Re: Spring onion regrowing
Hi Primrose,
To regenerate an onion it would be better to use scaling as used in lily production. In the dim and distant past I experimented to simply see if it worked but never actually grew on as a crop. I stopped when I had produced the bulblets.
To regenerate an onion it would be better to use scaling as used in lily production. In the dim and distant past I experimented to simply see if it worked but never actually grew on as a crop. I stopped when I had produced the bulblets.
- Tue Jun 06, 2017 9:10 am
- Forum: Growing Advice for beginners
- Topic: Planting Broccoli
- Replies: 8
- Views: 10583
Re: Planting Broccoli
Over a considerably long gardening period I have found it best to be a tad late with sowing than a tad early and as PP says things sown later always catch up. Sown too soon in the year and you are likely to give yourself problems.
- Sun Jun 04, 2017 5:06 pm
- Forum: Ask the team
- Topic: Definition of quick growing
- Replies: 21
- Views: 10785
Re: Definition of quick growing
Hi Steve, With you last posting you seem to have entirely missed the point. Spring Onions are sown from seed not sets and other varieties is nobody's guess and everybody can cheat but you have got onions for salad early maybe but not those classified as salad onions. There is no difficulty cheating ...