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buying bulbs in pots

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by Diane » Sun Feb 13, 2011 1:01 pm

Just bought some narcissus in pots...to pop in the bare patches in the flower beds....and was wondering why these bulbs are crammed into the pots...

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Mon Feb 14, 2011 9:33 am
Plastic Watering Cans

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by Geoff » Tue Feb 08, 2011 1:12 pm
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Does anybody else find their designs silly?
Washing them out today, after having soaked them in Jeyes Fluid for a while to kill off all the green...
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Sun Feb 13, 2011 8:45 pm
Recycling plastic sacks

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by alan refail » Tue Feb 01, 2011 3:51 pm

I am talking here of plastic sacks I get my poultry feed in.

The few plastic sacks I get compost in I can usually find a use for. However, I amass...

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Sat Feb 12, 2011 9:20 pm
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Fri Feb 11, 2011 5:01 pm
Birthday Greetings.

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by oldherbaceous » Sat Feb 05, 2011 5:23 am

A very happy Birthday, K.G.Admin, on this very blustery day.

Hope you have a very pleasant day. :)

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Mon Feb 07, 2011 8:29 am
Leeks

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by Shallot Man » Sun Feb 06, 2011 11:08 am

Whilst digging up some leeks this morning, found a ladybird alive and well.

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Sun Feb 06, 2011 1:42 pm
Organic seeds

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by KG Emma » Wed Feb 02, 2011 3:20 pm

In the forthcoming April issue of Kitchen Garden magazine Bob Sherman and Edwin Oxlade will air their views on organic seeds. We would like to...

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Fri Feb 04, 2011 7:19 pm
Please help reconstruct an incomplete memory

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by peter » Tue Jan 25, 2011 10:19 pm
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From my childhood I have a patchy memory of a TV programme whose name I cannot recall and my internet searches have failed me.

I think it was made...
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Fri Feb 04, 2011 7:11 pm
The Future of Food and Farming

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by alan refail » Mon Jan 24, 2011 7:21 am
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Major report to be published today "The Future of Food and Farming".
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Thu Feb 03, 2011 5:18 pm
WoodBlocX

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by bobdaniel » Tue Feb 01, 2011 3:34 pm

I have just ordered a raised bed from . The chap was really helpful and sent me a free sample box in the post upon request. The Wood is good quality...

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Thu Feb 03, 2011 10:08 am
"New and secret" vegetable...

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by Chantal » Sat Jan 29, 2011 10:43 am

We are so ahead of the times on here :D

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Wed Feb 02, 2011 2:29 pm
You too can have tomatoes ready by 18 March!

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by alan refail » Sun Jan 30, 2011 7:20 am

Well, you can if you buy a Red Nose Day tomato kit, and you can wear the tomato!

I wonder how many will be fooled.

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Mon Jan 31, 2011 9:36 pm
Swedes vs Turnips

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by Primrose » Thu Jan 27, 2011 1:44 pm

Our regular Burns Night Haggis meal reminded me of this this long term argument about swedes versus turnips, and I'm sure we've debated this before...

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Sat Jan 29, 2011 4:36 pm
FLOWER SPROUTS

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by Compo » Mon Jan 24, 2011 11:25 pm

Hi All

I grew these for the first time this year, well I understand the first time the seed has been commercially available. The plants are great,...

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Fri Jan 28, 2011 9:32 pm
any Northumberland gardeners out there...

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by Rubykitchen » Thu Jan 20, 2011 9:35 pm

apparently there are none on the "other side" ;)
So, will try here with you friendly bunch...

Used to live in London where was lucky...

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Fri Jan 28, 2011 5:01 pm
Awaiting OH's comment!

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by alan refail » Sat Jan 22, 2011 11:09 am
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Thu Jan 27, 2011 4:13 pm
BBC Radio 4 News Bulletins

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by Johnboy » Mon Jan 24, 2011 12:57 pm

I have been listening to BBC Radio 4 since it started a 05.20 hrs and the bulletins have been giving out the news of the way the Australian flooded...

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Thu Jan 27, 2011 6:54 am
Food miles and carbon footprints

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by alan refail » Sun Jan 23, 2011 4:12 pm

Does anyone know how to calculate either of these widely popularised measures when applied to an item of food? I can readily understand the basic...

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Wed Jan 26, 2011 11:04 pm
The Edible Garden Show

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by skinny_bum » Sun Jan 23, 2011 10:43 pm

Hi just thought that I would pass on some info for those that might like to go, sorry if this has already come up else where, have been off line for...

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Wed Jan 26, 2011 10:33 pm
The noise, the noise!

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by Monika » Sun Jan 23, 2011 7:24 pm

We went to grandson No.2's engagement party last night which would have been lovely (pleasant, convenient venue, good company, tasty food), if the...

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Tue Jan 25, 2011 8:46 pm
Food responsibility or food guilt?

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by alan refail » Sun Jan 16, 2011 2:25 pm

With all the discussion about the depletion of fish stocks, the growth in demand for meat, carbon emissions, world hunger etc, I have set to...

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Sun Jan 23, 2011 12:51 pm
Happy Birthday.

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by oldherbaceous » Fri Jan 21, 2011 6:36 am

A very happy Birthday to you mrs l, hope you have a lovely day. :)

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Fri Jan 21, 2011 7:19 am
Define compost?

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by peter » Tue Jan 11, 2011 9:18 pm
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To me there are two separate gardening definitions.

1 The word on its own, "compost" means the output of the compost heap, composted,...
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Last post by Tony Hague
Thu Jan 20, 2011 11:47 am
Not in my banger

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by alan refail » Wed Jan 19, 2011 11:26 am

As the fish thread is getting tied up with meat issues, I put this in a separate thread -

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Last post by Elle's Garden
Wed Jan 19, 2011 9:57 pm
I hope this is not typically British

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by Johnboy » Sat Jan 15, 2011 10:08 am
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As a treat yesterday I accompanied one of my daughters to Hereford and I went into a a shop of a nationally owned news agents and the two women...
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Last post by Monika
Tue Jan 18, 2011 7:32 pm
Raised beds versus Open ground?

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by KG Emma » Tue Jan 11, 2011 1:48 pm
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Is growing in raised beds better than the open ground? Do you have any strong opinions on either?
We have Bob Sherman and Edwin Oxlade discussing...
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Sun Jan 16, 2011 7:24 pm
Happy New Year

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by peter » Sat Jan 01, 2011 12:30 am
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A very Happy 2011 to all forum members & visitors.
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Sun Jan 16, 2011 5:22 am
Buying lots of Walnuts?

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by peter » Tue Jan 11, 2011 8:49 am

Does anyone know of a good UK source for unshelled walnuts in decent quantities at a reasonable price?

I can find US sources, but then theres...

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Sat Jan 15, 2011 4:25 pm
The really BIG problem we are all facing.

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by peter » Wed Jan 12, 2011 12:49 pm

See and their report entitled "Population: One Planet, Too Many People".
Precis.
By 2100, experts predict the global human population to...

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Fri Jan 14, 2011 5:48 pm
Hard times as price rises bite around the world

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by alan refail » Thu Jan 13, 2011 2:34 pm

Things are getting critical long before the world's population reaches 9.5 billion in 89 years' time.

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Thu Jan 13, 2011 4:32 pm
Are you all snowed in ?

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by Primrose » Sat Dec 18, 2010 12:45 pm
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Nobody is venturing in or out of our road. I think everybody has pulled up the drawbridge round here.

I've been out three times this morning...
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Last post by Johnboy
Thu Jan 13, 2011 12:37 pm
Anxious times

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by alan refail » Sat Jan 08, 2011 4:04 pm

Two houses in the village set on fire deliberately within less than a fortnight - we're all wondering what next?

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Thu Jan 13, 2011 12:30 pm
Environmentalist's breakfast dilemma?

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by alan refail » Wed Jan 05, 2011 5:32 pm
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A slice of bacon from

enviropig

- causes less pollution but is genetically modified.
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Thu Jan 13, 2011 7:35 am
York Hotels

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by Colin Miles » Tue Jan 11, 2011 4:15 pm

Anyone any suggestions for suitable 6 bed or larger hotels in York for a 70th birthday family get-together in October?

Thanks.

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Wed Jan 12, 2011 1:42 pm
GOT THE GROWING SEASON OFF TO A START - I HOPE!!

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by Compo » Sun Jan 09, 2011 10:35 pm

Got out the allotment today and did a bit, put some broadbeans in modules in the greenhouse and some in the ground. Was thinking of also sowing some...

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Last post by Catherine
Tue Jan 11, 2011 4:27 pm
Sudden Oak Death

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by Cider Boys » Thu Jan 06, 2011 6:46 pm

Thousands of Larch trees are now being felled near to me on the Quantocks due to the spread of this disease from America, it has spread up from...

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Last post by Elle's Garden
Sun Jan 09, 2011 5:22 pm
Monty's Return

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by Cider Boys » Sat Dec 11, 2010 5:00 pm
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Some may be pleased, yet some may not, that Monty Don is to make a return to Gardeners' World as a presenter from his own garden.

Some say that you...
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Sun Jan 09, 2011 6:14 am
To Olive tree or not :)

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by Colin_M » Thu Dec 30, 2010 8:14 am

Sorry to shamelessly steal the title of another thread, but have any of you had any luck getting an olive tree to grow to a decent size in the UK?...

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Sun Jan 09, 2011 1:49 am
Soil Association - Organic market report 2010

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by alan refail » Sat Jan 08, 2011 11:41 am

For anyone interested in organic food sales, this report is interesting reading:-

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Sat Jan 08, 2011 1:28 pm
Happy Birthday Retropants

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by alan refail » Sun Jan 02, 2011 7:05 am

Happy Birthday

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Thu Jan 06, 2011 9:50 pm
WILD BIRD FOOD

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by Shallot Man » Mon Dec 06, 2010 9:23 am

Hi all. Have bought large bags of wild bird food for more years than I can remember, during this snowy spell have been putting some on a sewage...

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Wed Jan 05, 2011 8:01 pm
Nearly Winter, Bits and Bobs.

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Dear Monika, your wish is my command. :)

A whole new start for another Bits and Bobs.
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Wed Jan 05, 2011 5:34 pm
Africa 'can feed itself in a generation'

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by alan refail » Fri Dec 03, 2010 7:24 am

An interesting article on possible developments in African agriculture:

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Wed Jan 05, 2011 2:30 pm
Desktop

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by Bren » Thu Dec 30, 2010 4:04 pm

Help can anyone help me get my icons back on the desktop?

I'm not sure what I did wrong to loose them, I'm not very well up on the computer, fine...

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Last post by Beryl
Wed Jan 05, 2011 1:39 pm
"What the Green Movement Got Wrong"

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by alan refail » Fri Oct 29, 2010 5:50 am

This looks like a very promising series coming up next week on Channel 4. It should provide an opportunity for unthinking, dogmatic environmentalists...

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Last post by Johnboy
Wed Jan 05, 2011 7:44 am
To cherry tree or not

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by Fair Weather 33 » Wed Dec 29, 2010 8:44 pm

Merry Xmas everyone.

Hope everyone has had a good holiday so far,with no dredded lurgie creeping up on you!!!

I was planning to grow a cherry tree....

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Wed Jan 05, 2011 1:19 am
Olympics in bloom.

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by Nature's Babe » Tue Nov 30, 2010 10:29 am
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Garden plants to feature at olympics 2012
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Tue Jan 04, 2011 10:46 am
Who wants to be a centenarian?

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by alan refail » Fri Dec 31, 2010 6:56 am

Anyone fancy living to a hundred?

I can think of many disadvantages in living to 100 - I can't think of many advantages. I've seen too many old...

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Last post by Monika
Mon Jan 03, 2011 10:13 pm
It aint 'alf 'ot Mum!

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by alan refail » Wed Dec 29, 2010 6:48 am

At least that's how it feels going out before six this morning to be met with plus 9C rather than minus 9C.

What's the chances winter won't be back...

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Sun Jan 02, 2011 10:26 pm
Thoughts for today 1.1.11

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by alan refail » Sat Jan 01, 2011 5:35 am

“New Year's Day - Now is the accepted time to make your regular annual good resolutions. Next week you can begin paving hell with them as usual.”...

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Sun Jan 02, 2011 1:14 pm

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