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- Thu Jun 19, 2008 8:05 am
- Forum: General chatter
- Topic: First Broad Beans....... ever!
- Replies: 10
- Views: 3089
DD, after a while you will find yourself eating them straight off the plant while working! I look for small broad bean pods to steam whole, from my first peas I select a few as 'mange tout' to eat raw or to take back and steam or stir fry. The problem is that you must not take too many - no matter h...
- Wed Jun 18, 2008 8:05 am
- Forum: Best practices
- Topic: Egg shells in Compost?
- Replies: 6
- Views: 3221
Egg shells in Compost?
Along with my winter caulies, the other highlight to my season start was my compost! For the first time it looked like the books describe it should, dark, moist, crumbling and without smell. There were a few twigs from the base but nothing could stop my unalloyed joy - what a sad man I am. Anyway, I...
- Wed Jun 04, 2008 10:35 pm
- Forum: General chatter
- Topic: Jersey Royal Potatoes
- Replies: 34
- Views: 10315
My experience is similar to yours lurganspade, with the exception that I grew Lady Christl for the first time as my early earlies. The first pick were simply OK, no explosion of flavour that the first new tatties from the lottie usually bring. Subsequent pickings have improved both size and flavour ...
- Tue Jun 03, 2008 11:56 am
- Forum: General chatter
- Topic: BUSY PERIOD? What is everyone up too?
- Replies: 40
- Views: 11816
- Wed May 28, 2008 5:55 pm
- Forum: Seasonal tips
- Topic: ONIONS
- Replies: 9
- Views: 5149
Its been pretty dry on the Yorks Plain, yesterday was the first rain since the last week in April. It appears to have set off a high number of bolting amongst the onions all over the lottie site, my loss is 25% and I think that is typical for our site. The rain has been beautiful and soft to start o...
- Mon May 26, 2008 4:07 pm
- Forum: General chatter
- Topic: Risk Assessents on allotments - help needed!
- Replies: 5
- Views: 2321
- Mon May 26, 2008 3:48 pm
- Forum: Growing places
- Topic: right type of netting
- Replies: 18
- Views: 7997
- Fri May 23, 2008 5:14 pm
- Forum: General chatter
- Topic: Vegetable Art
- Replies: 13
- Views: 3698
- Thu May 15, 2008 8:12 am
- Forum: Best practices
- Topic: Spuds question.
- Replies: 24
- Views: 7706
- Wed May 14, 2008 5:46 pm
- Forum: General chatter
- Topic: I think all the 'clouts' have been 'cast' !!
- Replies: 41
- Views: 9085
I think all the 'clouts' have been 'cast' !!
I know its been hot but I can't believe what I am seeing down at the lottie! Blocks of sweetcorn; mounds with courgettes, even Tomatoes and we are not even half way through May. Is it me? Have I missed something? Looking at the Met forecast, it reckons on some seriously single figure temps coming up...
- Thu May 01, 2008 8:24 am
- Forum: General chatter
- Topic: allotments help
- Replies: 16
- Views: 5773
- Thu May 01, 2008 8:00 am
- Forum: Seasonal tips
- Topic: Planting out Parsnips
- Replies: 10
- Views: 4594
Mine were sown in kitchen roll inners, (it seemed a good idea at the time!) but I found that my dibber (broken spade handle)was too narrow in diameter for the tubes. However I inherited some galvanised pipes with concrete/cement inside them which I only ever used as weights for my fleece, and these ...
- Thu May 01, 2008 7:49 am
- Forum: Best practices
- Topic: Feeding Seedlings (?)
- Replies: 3
- Views: 1626
- Thu Apr 24, 2008 11:04 pm
- Forum: Best practices
- Topic: Feeding Seedlings (?)
- Replies: 3
- Views: 1626
Feeding Seedlings (?)
Currently my seedlings (Tomatoes, Peppers, Celery etc)are establishing themselves nicely in their 3" pots. However I don't envision the outdoor types being planted out for some while yet and depletion of the nutriments in the compost will no doubt occur. For a number of reasons I can't pot up t...
- Tue Mar 04, 2008 6:13 pm
- Forum: Seasonal tips
- Topic: PLANTING / S0WING NOW?
- Replies: 52
- Views: 18017