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- Fri Sep 06, 2019 8:44 am
- Forum: General chatter
- Topic: Marketing Allotments
- Replies: 18
- Views: 4999
Re: Marketing Allotments
Is there a restaurant that could grow their own ... better still a hospital what with all the talk on hospital food at the moment. It the schools have good planning the harvest could be done by the enthusiastic kids and given to the food bank. Schools are missing a great opportunity to get children ...
- Fri Sep 06, 2019 8:26 am
- Forum: General chatter
- Topic: Summer Bits and Bobs
- Replies: 149
- Views: 32194
Re: Summer Bits and Bobs
Thanks Westi, I am growing buckets one is in a cold frame so guess I can just shut the top, the others were in a plastic green house until it go blown down but should be easy make wood fame for the plastic cover.
- Wed Sep 04, 2019 4:43 pm
- Forum: General chatter
- Topic: Summer Bits and Bobs
- Replies: 149
- Views: 32194
Re: Summer Bits and Bobs
When do you know it's time to harvest your sweet potatoes Westi?
- Sun Sep 01, 2019 4:55 pm
- Forum: Ask the team
- Topic: Sweet Pepper Long Red Marconi
- Replies: 6
- Views: 3259
Re: Sweet Pepper Long Red Marconi
I grow these as well usually eat before they get red as do not find they taste any different. Found my chillies have been late getting hot. Any way you can tell by looking if they are hot?
- Sun Sep 01, 2019 8:33 am
- Forum: Seasonal tips
- Topic: Disposal of mildewed leaves
- Replies: 4
- Views: 5026
Re: Disposal of mildewed leaves
I believe if your compost heap gets hot then any damage plant can be put there.
- Fri Aug 30, 2019 8:42 am
- Forum: General chatter
- Topic: Summer Bits and Bobs
- Replies: 149
- Views: 32194
Re: Summer Bits and Bobs
"We covered it last year, but the whitefly was so awful"
Had similar problem last year been spraying with garlic solution which looks to be keeping them away.
Had similar problem last year been spraying with garlic solution which looks to be keeping them away.
- Fri Aug 30, 2019 8:37 am
- Forum: General chatter
- Topic: Marketing Allotments
- Replies: 18
- Views: 4999
Re: Marketing Allotments
Would local schools be interested? Maybe divide a plot up into smaller units with raised beds then use one raised bed to show what can be grown as an example for others to follow and include easy to follow plan. Use the pollytunnel to grow seeds and maybe allow other plot holders to use it. How abou...
- Thu Aug 29, 2019 8:41 am
- Forum: Best practices
- Topic: Growing from potato peelings
- Replies: 8
- Views: 4641
Re: Growing from potato peelings
Sounds a good idea however my peeling are thin & go straight into the compost bin.
Regards the "volunteers" as you call them seemed to have them all over my plot, left over from previous owner.
Regards the "volunteers" as you call them seemed to have them all over my plot, left over from previous owner.
- Thu Aug 29, 2019 8:32 am
- Forum: General chatter
- Topic: I was wiping my secateurs
- Replies: 12
- Views: 3873
Re: I was wiping my secateurs
Filling my latest raised bed number 8 yesterday with homemade compost I noticed the different bugs/worms/spiders etc in & around the compost. Would have thought this is what is needed for good harvest not sterilised lifeless soil? No major issues with weed seeds as they temp gauge goes in to the...
- Mon Aug 26, 2019 8:31 am
- Forum: General chatter
- Topic: Hydroponics on a very small scale
- Replies: 4
- Views: 1642
Re: Hydroponics on a very small scale
Is there any difference in taste of the produce?
- Fri Aug 23, 2019 8:39 am
- Forum: General chatter
- Topic: I was wiping my secateurs
- Replies: 12
- Views: 3873
Re: I was wiping my secateurs
What worries me is all those adverts that kill 99% of all known germs…but what about the 1% germ lurking about?
- Thu Aug 22, 2019 8:44 am
- Forum: General chatter
- Topic: Summer Bits and Bobs
- Replies: 149
- Views: 32194
Re: Summer Bits and Bobs
I have the opinion that the treatment costs in a dogs later years is worth it for the pleasure the dog gives you in it’s younger years.
- Sat Aug 17, 2019 9:09 am
- Forum: Tools and Machinery
- Topic: New tool for getting to & from plot
- Replies: 10
- Views: 4815
Re: New tool for getting to & from plot
What wattage are they Robo?
- Sat Aug 17, 2019 9:08 am
- Forum: Harvesting Q&A
- Topic: Onions.
- Replies: 21
- Views: 14342
Re: Onions.
When I sowed the spring onions I used the multi seed method 8/10 per cell for spring onions pulled the good looking ones first and left others in ground.
Sow 6/7 for bulbs which I have not tried yet.
Sow 6/7 for bulbs which I have not tried yet.
- Fri Aug 16, 2019 8:23 am
- Forum: Tools and Machinery
- Topic: New tool for getting to & from plot
- Replies: 10
- Views: 4815
Re: New tool for getting to & from plot
Thanks for link "Photonic Universe" Stephan.
What size solar panels do you have Robo?
What size solar panels do you have Robo?