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- Thu Apr 07, 2016 12:41 pm
- Forum: General chatter
- Topic: Stone shortage
- Replies: 43
- Views: 9900
Re: Stone shortage
I don't bother growing stones I stick with my asbestos bush and my bicycle spares tree both of which are doing really well on the plot,
- Wed Apr 06, 2016 2:32 pm
- Forum: Growing places
- Topic: Pots or beds?
- Replies: 23
- Views: 21679
Re: Pots or beds?
My wife grows cherry tomatoes , she has them everywhere in summer in pots in the pollytunnel in hanging baskets even in troughs (the cheap plastic ones) gives far more away than we eat
- Wed Apr 06, 2016 2:28 pm
- Forum: General chatter
- Topic: Welcome Spring, Bits and Bobs - 2016.
- Replies: 166
- Views: 33928
Re: Welcome Spring, Bits and Bobs.
Briggs and Stratton engine as good as anything made
- Wed Apr 06, 2016 2:22 pm
- Forum: General chatter
- Topic: BIRTHDAY WISHES FOR JOHNBOY
- Replies: 13
- Views: 3519
Re: BIRTHDAY WISHES FOR JOHNBOY
All the best hope you have many ,many, more
- Tue Apr 05, 2016 9:18 pm
- Forum: General chatter
- Topic: Welcome Spring, Bits and Bobs - 2016.
- Replies: 166
- Views: 33928
Re: Welcome Spring, Bits and Bobs.
Must be a clever Fox as he or she has planted onions as well as there are none growing in the raised beds on the picture above, is there a driving range near bye
- Mon Apr 04, 2016 7:17 pm
- Forum: General chatter
- Topic: Welcome Spring, Bits and Bobs - 2016.
- Replies: 166
- Views: 33928
Re: Welcome Spring, Bits and Bobs.
A fetish on compost , that could be a first
- Mon Apr 04, 2016 1:26 pm
- Forum: General chatter
- Topic: Apropos Grape Roots - our old place.
- Replies: 7
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Re: Apropos Grape Roots - our old place.
It's a bit different from the end terrace with gas lights and toilet down the yard with half the roof missing that I started life in
- Sun Apr 03, 2016 9:09 pm
- Forum: Growing places
- Topic: Grape roots outside of polytunnel?
- Replies: 12
- Views: 7042
Re: Grape roots outside of polytunnel?
I planted a vine in my new pollytunnel last week and I was faced with the same problem I decided to plant the vine in the corner I think the roots will grow more outside than in
- Sat Apr 02, 2016 11:22 am
- Forum: Growing places
- Topic: Raised bed orientation
- Replies: 23
- Views: 10221
Re: Raised bed orientation
on our plot we have ten raised beds all 12 x 4 feet I also have an area where I grow spuds and beans our problem is clay, most of the plot it's half a spade down it's no good trying to dig it as I drilled an 8 inch diameter hole with the idea to make a drainage point I drilled down 10 feet and was s...
- Sat Apr 02, 2016 10:59 am
- Forum: General chatter
- Topic: Welcome Spring, Bits and Bobs - 2016.
- Replies: 166
- Views: 33928
Re: Welcome Spring, Bits and Bobs.
We have three garden centres with in a five mile radius each has a posh cafe you can buy coats and shoes ,boots ,and slippers in them all ,as well as oak tables and other oak furniture all being pushed by a large firm on the goggle box at present, any type of patio furniture you want is there , I've...
- Fri Apr 01, 2016 7:43 am
- Forum: General chatter
- Topic: A P(l)otted History Part 4, April 2016 Onward
- Replies: 33
- Views: 8006
Re: A P(l)otted History Part 4, April 2016 Onward
Looks very much like an April fool especially the part that says before 12 noon
- Thu Mar 31, 2016 3:53 pm
- Forum: Best practices
- Topic: When do you take notice of best before dates on seed packs?
- Replies: 32
- Views: 10490
Re: When do you take notice of best before dates on seed packs?
I've just opened some Bulgarian giant leek seeds it says to use by 01-2020 that's seems a long time to me
- Tue Mar 29, 2016 8:50 am
- Forum: General chatter
- Topic: Welcome Spring, Bits and Bobs - 2016.
- Replies: 166
- Views: 33928
Re: Welcome Spring, Bits and Bobs.
We had a lemon tree grown from a pip it lasted around eight years my wife loved the smell it omitted I have no sense of smell so I did not appreciate it ,we left it in the greenhouse one year a bit longer than we should have done that was the end of it
- Mon Mar 28, 2016 7:05 pm
- Forum: General chatter
- Topic: Welcome Spring, Bits and Bobs - 2016.
- Replies: 166
- Views: 33928
Re: Welcome Spring, Bits and Bobs.
Hi plumpudding, I got a phone call from a person asking to speak to me ,not recognising the phone number I pressed the red button on the call blocker ,later I returned the call to get an answer machine telling me it was aldi customer care so I sent an email apologizing then I opened an email they ha...
- Mon Mar 28, 2016 2:35 pm
- Forum: General chatter
- Topic: Welcome Spring, Bits and Bobs - 2016.
- Replies: 166
- Views: 33928
Re: Welcome Spring, Bits and Bobs.
Went to our local aldi this morning one of the things I bought was a lemon plant complete with a lemon, when I got home from the plot I decided to read the label which states in two places "do not eat " I've sent aldi an email to ask why but I'm not expecting a response