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Clive. wrote:Around here stone picking was known as rembling....get a cart load and skell them in a gate hole as booning.

Clive.

It's like being in another country, with a language I don't understand.

I'll guess that our filling the holes in the track around our site that end up as pools of water after rain amounts to much the same thing. If so I can really baffle (more than usual) my neighbouring plotholders

You are obviously using too much sharp sand in your composts, this is stone seed but luckily with quite a low germination rate.

Sharp thinking there Geoff

What I fail to understand though is given that the sharp sand I used had copious sand in it why haven't I ended up with the beach I hoped for.

Pa Snip wrote:Sharp thinking there Geoff

What I fail to understand though is given that the sharp sand I used had copious sand in it why haven't I ended up with the beach I hoped for.

You added manure, if it was at all fresh it will have lowered the already low germination rate.

peter wrote:

Pa Snip wrote:Sharp thinking there Geoff

What I fail to understand though is given that the sharp sand I used had copious sand in it why haven't I ended up with the beach I hoped for.

You added manure, if it was at all fresh it will have lowered the already low germination rate.

Can Shallot Man please note that I was not the first person to mention manure

Peter

Dammit, that means I'm likely to end up with bigger stones as they will take advantage of the manure. The gall of the damn things

Barry, you are welcome to come to our garden and collect all the stones you want. It can be very dispiriting soil to work with. When we first moved here 35 years ago to a new build p,ot i regularly collected stones in buckets and took them to the tip but every time it rained a new lot came to the surface so I soon learned the futility of the exercise. Ir does at least prevent water logging in periods of heavy rainfall.

Funnily enough though the stoney soil has never prevented me from growing decent parsnips and ai never seem to get forked roots. As long as your soil drains well I guess it doesn't matter too much as long as it's fertile.

So it's all round to Primrose's place to get stoned !!

Good one Pa!

Best theme it then? Hippies? Rock n Roll?

Westi

Has to be rock,

I'll arrange for the Rolling Stones to perform in aid of charity since you suggested a bucket collection

Might be better with The Stone Roses?

I'm impressed, would never have thought of them

At least with the rolling stones you won't be bothered with moss

Stirling work on the reply there robo

robo wrote:At least with the rolling stones you won't be bothered with moss

And of course they could open with https://youtu.be/vLjz9G9n1Ts

Pa Snip. Trust I didn't upset you. But getting manure delivered around our way is like trying to order Hens teeth.