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Is that pussy cat scratch marks by the potato with the bropken flower by any chance ?Something broke the flowery bit off of one of my potato plants. Does it matter, will it die?
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Then my Czar runners. Some look decidedly unwell. Seems to be a few plants on the shaded side. I'm removing these and putting straight in the compost bin.
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Others have very occasional, almost pin prick like little warty spots, see by my thumb:
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Others look just a little stunted and curling up:
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Those blemishes usually caused by some thing like the flea beetle as thy drink the plants sugary sap when the beans are small . early one after a lot have flowerd spray the developing beans with simple soap solution ( Lux flakes ) and minced garlic soaked in it for 24 hrs strain well before spraying the liquid onthe crops .. it seems most insects don't like either nor a belt & braces combination
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Rake marks that but the cats are using the nice sieved soil. If there were prizes for growing cat s**t!
I had a lot of conflicting information about putting stuff in the compost bin wrt diseased plants ..... Well in real life every plant that is composted and with it most of the things that affected them die too and are turned into humus the golden liquid that the breaking down fungi produce that is absorbed by fine open fibres of the former plant . If you practice five , six or seven bed crop rotations with the fifth or seventh rotation being left fallow and not tilled or manured for the year the chances of pests & diseases in the soil will be much reduced . The dreaded onion rot and club root problems so often found in allotments respond well to the seven year with the fallow bed cycle if you keep it long term .
Composting is an art if you use the 18day hot composting cycle method to compost and let it mature for 6 months or so a lot of the often taboo contents are self cleansed out the compost but only if you use this aerobic 18 day programme.
To my mind Anerobic composting ( aka ... Cold composting with out aeration ) is no where as effective or good no matter how many years you leave it as a lot of weed seeds will still survive.
Adding new stuff to any composting bin /heap simply returns you to day one of making your heap with all the bugs & beasties still present are able to feed off the latest food arrival .
So you perpetuate diseases & pest cycles if you compost like this , in you naivety
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A Westwood trailer full of sievings:
Lots of flint and chalk:
If I ever make my rotary trommel I could further process this stuff smaller as there's still a lot of decent dirt in there. This as it is will just get towed and dumped at a neighbour's farm.
Slowly extending the veg plot. I use the 4 prong digging thing to turn the "turf", rub the clumps over the sieve into a barrow then again hand sieve the soil.
Plan is to edge this new area with sleepers which will be a terrace "up" from the beans. Then I'll fill the lot with well rotted manure and cover.
Compost bins will move to the right.
Lots of flint and chalk:
If I ever make my rotary trommel I could further process this stuff smaller as there's still a lot of decent dirt in there. This as it is will just get towed and dumped at a neighbour's farm.
Slowly extending the veg plot. I use the 4 prong digging thing to turn the "turf", rub the clumps over the sieve into a barrow then again hand sieve the soil.
Plan is to edge this new area with sleepers which will be a terrace "up" from the beans. Then I'll fill the lot with well rotted manure and cover.
Compost bins will move to the right.
Soak it/fill the trailer with water and wash the finer residues to the bottom of the trailer then fork out the bigger stuff & sieve outneh small wetter stuff or maybe do as I did . After a few days of standing in another water retaining wheel barrow I decanted it a few spadesful at a time into a 1/4 " riddle then washed then clean using my hose pipe with the spray gun nozzle on the end to do a riddle full at a time over my wheel barrow .
The washed stones didn't contain any gold , neither did the fine tailings but they did help form the lower 300 mm part of a lot of my 900mm deep raised beds as free drainage .
via weep holes at the bottoms
The washed stones didn't contain any gold , neither did the fine tailings but they did help form the lower 300 mm part of a lot of my 900mm deep raised beds as free drainage .
via weep holes at the bottoms
Your four pronged digging thing is often csalled " a Gardeners Claw ) mine is ancient ,,,had to water the gardens every night for a week or more to be able to use it during my initial setting up the weed & grass tuft beds .
All plant life removed was hot composted using a cheap boot electric garden tiller to aerate it before restacking and watering it in four foot tall heaps
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Hose ban here!
Save it till winter then when the ban is rescinded or use filtred rainwater and a power washer on wide spray . Now't like a bit of outdoor exercise in the cold and or pizzing down rain to make you feel
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First two olives from a tree planted two years ago.
Kim said the were horrible, I think they are meant to be processed before eating.
Still waiting for bananas.
Kim said the were horrible, I think they are meant to be processed before eating.
Still waiting for bananas.
for the last three years we have had three banana plants mysteriously appear in our front flowerbeds , possibly from where I have chucked several supermarket banana skins .First two olives from a tree planted two years ago.
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Kim said the were horrible, I think they are meant to be processed before eating.
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Still waiting for bananas.
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We don't know if they are the Northern Indian bananas or Welsh wonders . We certainly haven't to our knowledge purchased any clone plants or know if the Northern Indian plant produces seeds
Do you have any special care suggestions for us to consider ?
Alison chuckled , aren't you in the Pharr Norf up by Dundee ?
Yes they will need processing, boiling (?) then brine or olive oil .
If you can be bothered to kill all the essential & none essential interest sites have a quick look here
Can You Eat Olives Off the Tree? Answered! - Plant Food At Home
Find out if you can eat olives off the tree. We also cover common curing methods for olives and show you how to cure your own olives.
www.plantfoodathome.com
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Yes, well up north, to keep the bananas going outdoors over winter you have to wrap them up. First chop off all the leaves.
We then put a bag of compost round the base, fleece round the stem and a whirligig cover over the top. That was November last year.
We opened them up in April and they looked like this.
And a couple of weeks ago.
We then put a bag of compost round the base, fleece round the stem and a whirligig cover over the top. That was November last year.
We opened them up in April and they looked like this.
And a couple of weeks ago.
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That's a very small photovoltaic panel you have there.
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