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- Fri Apr 04, 2008 1:47 pm
- Forum: Birds, Animals and Livestock
- Topic: Starlings
- Replies: 12
- Views: 4896
- Fri Apr 04, 2008 1:44 pm
- Forum: Seasonal tips
- Topic: Sweetcorn
- Replies: 3
- Views: 3962
Oh good. Let me know how you go on with them. This year I am growing sweetcorn for the first time dont know much about them. My sister and brother in law live on a farm in Zambia and grows them by the acre but they have different problems to us. They have wild pigs and other game eating their crops....
- Fri Apr 04, 2008 1:39 pm
- Forum: Best practices
- Topic: Beetroot - Help please!!
- Replies: 10
- Views: 9041
- Fri Apr 04, 2008 11:52 am
- Forum: Seasonal tips
- Topic: Sweetcorn
- Replies: 3
- Views: 3962
http://www.mr-fothergills.co.uk/search/sweetcorn Just googled for it and found that fothergills sell the seeds for £1.95 for 50 seeds. I copied the link from the site but I dont know if it will work as not done that before. Hope it helps.
- Fri Apr 04, 2008 11:47 am
- Forum: Birds, Animals and Livestock
- Topic: Starlings
- Replies: 12
- Views: 4896
- Fri Apr 04, 2008 11:44 am
- Forum: Birds, Animals and Livestock
- Topic: Starlings
- Replies: 12
- Views: 4896
Starlings
I have a bird feeder in my garden which comprises four hooks with various sizes of feeders. I love watching the birds but my problem now is that the starlings have learnt to hang on and feed from the feeders with much flapping of wings and they are stripping the feeders of seed. Now the smaller bird...
- Fri Apr 04, 2008 11:41 am
- Forum: Growing places
- Topic: Polytunnel Woes
- Replies: 22
- Views: 13369
- Fri Apr 04, 2008 11:37 am
- Forum: Best practices
- Topic: Beetroot - Help please!!
- Replies: 10
- Views: 9041
Beetroot - Help please!!
Last year I had a very bad beetroot crop and leeks as well. I was told by an old allotment chappie to sow the seeds in small modules to plant out when it was slightly warmer. Has anyone else done this or is it better to plant straight in the ground when the weather is right? I thought beetroot would...
- Tue Apr 01, 2008 9:15 pm
- Forum: General chatter
- Topic: Harlow Carr
- Replies: 8
- Views: 3954
Thanks Monika. I had never heard of Skunk Cabbage but assumed that the pointy things at the edge of the stream was gunnera. Never having seen gunnera emerging only seen it in full leaf. I am going again in the next few weeks so will have a closer look. I love sitting in bird hides watching the birds...
- Tue Apr 01, 2008 5:02 pm
- Forum: General chatter
- Topic: New Game
- Replies: 3
- Views: 1607
- Tue Apr 01, 2008 4:58 pm
- Forum: General chatter
- Topic: Gardener's World
- Replies: 4
- Views: 1867
Not watched it yet, sky+ it I have been watching Carol Klein on Grown your own which I have really enjoyed. I must say that I think that the last two series of GW have not been as good as a few years back. I never missed an episode but now I can take it or leave it. I dont think for one minute that ...
- Tue Apr 01, 2008 4:45 pm
- Forum: General chatter
- Topic: raised beds
- Replies: 9
- Views: 3565
My problem is that the top soil was scraped away when the site was cleared for allotments and with all the heavy rain what little I did have has been washed away. So there is no chance of digging it over because there is only probably a couple of inches then it is clay. So my only option is to bring...
- Tue Apr 01, 2008 4:43 pm
- Forum: General chatter
- Topic: New To All This
- Replies: 5
- Views: 2087
I must say I have found this a very friendly and helpful site and have raised a smile many times reading some of the things that happen to people. Please keep it up everyone, I find I am switching on at every opportunity to see what has hap.pened or been said or to get advice Particularly the veggi ...
- Tue Apr 01, 2008 4:20 pm
- Forum: Growing places
- Topic: Polytunnel doors
- Replies: 2
- Views: 2555
Last year with the weather being hot in March and April, (well it was round here) and then very cold in May and June. I kept leaving my doors closed and consequently I got tomato blight. I am going to get my husband to make me some covers for the mesh because it is a windy site where we are and I fe...
- Tue Apr 01, 2008 4:14 pm
- Forum: Growing places
- Topic: Polytunnel Woes
- Replies: 22
- Views: 13369
The mice have eaten most of my beans (twice) my sweet peas, and disturbed my nasturtiums. I now have a metal staging which used to be one of those small four shelf polytunnels which you can buy everywhere. We used to have it on our patio before I got the polytunnel. Last year I threw the cover away ...