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- Fri Mar 30, 2007 4:12 pm
- Forum: General chatter
- Topic: Spring Progress
- Replies: 17
- Views: 6320
- Fri Mar 30, 2007 6:44 am
- Forum: Weeds, Pests and Diseases
- Topic: flippin' aphids everywhere!
- Replies: 10
- Views: 5599
- Thu Mar 29, 2007 11:07 am
- Forum: Best practices
- Topic: Planting toms from saved seed
- Replies: 7
- Views: 2908
My compost heap always gets a few tomatoes in autumn from the stems.. And my garden then grows various tomato plants in mid summer.. including last year 2 hanging baskets.. (Gradeners Delight I think). The tomatoes tasted fine... - in fact more flavourful than greenhouse grown probably because of th...
- Thu Mar 29, 2007 11:04 am
- Forum: General chatter
- Topic: Global Warming
- Replies: 71
- Views: 24357
Well of course one contribution to global warming is electricity distribution. Ever wonder why the cost of a KWH from electricity is about 3 -4 times that of gas? Answer: because about 60% of all electricity generated is lost as heat from power lines and substations... So we are heating the air natu...
- Mon Mar 26, 2007 7:03 pm
- Forum: Birds, Animals and Livestock
- Topic: Hatching chicks
- Replies: 26
- Views: 14493
- Mon Mar 26, 2007 4:55 pm
- Forum: Tools and Machinery
- Topic: Your favourite piece of equipment
- Replies: 36
- Views: 25646
I have a old (rehandled twice) small spade whose blade is about 20cm wide and 25cm long. Ideal for digging holes for fence posts (we have CLAY:-(. Was my father in laws so about 60?years old and very nice to handle as light and compact...also ideal for digging up deep weedroots plus nettles and bram...
- Fri Mar 23, 2007 5:53 am
- Forum: General chatter
- Topic: disbelief
- Replies: 51
- Views: 17468
- Wed Mar 21, 2007 1:16 pm
- Forum: General chatter
- Topic: hello from 'fish'
- Replies: 17
- Views: 5541
- Tue Mar 20, 2007 8:42 pm
- Forum: Seasonal tips
- Topic: Sowing too early??
- Replies: 21
- Views: 9636
- Tue Mar 20, 2007 9:57 am
- Forum: Birds, Animals and Livestock
- Topic: First frogspawn
- Replies: 15
- Views: 9257
- Sun Mar 18, 2007 8:38 am
- Forum: Birds, Animals and Livestock
- Topic: What birds visit your garden?
- Replies: 16
- Views: 10656
robin, blackbird, bluetit,chaffinch (lots), greattit, longtailed tit,coal tit, siskin (rare), thrush (occasional), crow, jackdaws, magpies, dunnocks,yellow hammer, bullfinch,greater spotted woodpecker,tree creeper,pheasant,wood pigeon, collared dove, wren and less often merlin, sparrowhawk, goshawk,...
- Fri Mar 16, 2007 2:44 pm
- Forum: General chatter
- Topic: severe weather warning!
- Replies: 6
- Views: 2398
- Fri Mar 16, 2007 6:31 am
- Forum: General chatter
- Topic: snow
- Replies: 24
- Views: 7711
- Thu Mar 15, 2007 9:12 am
- Forum: Weeds, Pests and Diseases
- Topic: Poppies and Basil
- Replies: 19
- Views: 10138
Interesting. We have about .5 acre garden with fields on 2 sides. At the front - south facing - I often grow dahlias which become covered in blackfly harvested by ants. I no longer spray with anything but soap solution (no insecticides in garden at all) and crush blackfly by hand running up dahlia s...
- Wed Mar 14, 2007 7:52 pm
- Forum: Weeds, Pests and Diseases
- Topic: Is there any such thing as one rat?
- Replies: 19
- Views: 9439