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Be very careful doing minced or chopped garlic and storing it in jars or longr than a three days inthe fridge for it is very likely to giving you serious food poisoning .. Commercial stuff has loads of preservatives in it as well as being cooked
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Paint stripping by breath ?
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Has anyone used liquid seaweed fertiliser? If so what were the results.
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Interesting.
Due to Clostridium Botulinum, apparently.
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Another oddity, Pheasant Berry- Leycesteria formosa
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Pleased with myself this morning . Dug up first potato from main raised bed, planted 29/3 so 12 weeks in the ground. Just over 700g /1.5lbs , will do three dinners. Seven more plants to follow, hope they all do as well. Variety is Rocket as International Kidney ( Jersey Royal ) wasn’t available.
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Slowly getting there with extending my veg patch. Decided not to go the no dig route. Instead I dig a line of the overgrown rough with an "old man's" 4 pronged digging thing. I then rub the tufts over a 6mm sieve to recover the top soil. Tufts then go on the compost.
As an aside I've a couple of old baths kicking around. Plan was to make a wheeled frame, put some pallet cladding around and make a moveable patio thing for growing salad.
That's not going to happen soon. It dawned on me I've a bit of space on the original patch where I grew butternut squash last year. Both baths have become detached from their frames with the chipboard underneath all swollen.
I've dragged one of the baths over. It was the one I used as a citric acid bath for a subframe so the plug hole is CT1'd up.
Rough plan is to fill with sieved dirt from the new patch.
Worried about slugs living under the rim is one thing. Then, do I need drainage holes?
Cheers.
As an aside I've a couple of old baths kicking around. Plan was to make a wheeled frame, put some pallet cladding around and make a moveable patio thing for growing salad.
That's not going to happen soon. It dawned on me I've a bit of space on the original patch where I grew butternut squash last year. Both baths have become detached from their frames with the chipboard underneath all swollen.
I've dragged one of the baths over. It was the one I used as a citric acid bath for a subframe so the plug hole is CT1'd up.
Rough plan is to fill with sieved dirt from the new patch.
Worried about slugs living under the rim is one thing. Then, do I need drainage holes?
Cheers.
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I tried it when I first started growing veg...it's a nice idea but we have cough grass on our site so it's either dig it out in March...or spend the entire summer scratching about trying to stop it!
Decided I would rather just do 1 dig...and actually after 2-3 years its now well knocked back too.
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Sieved topsoil from the patch is going into the bath. I removed the overflow & plug assembly completely leaving the circa 1½" hole in the bottom and smaller overflow one.
I then chucked a little pile of small flints over the plug hole and laid over a strip of landscape fabric that will cover the mainly the bottom hole and prevent a mud plug. It also blocks the overflow hole.
What to plant, salad? Got some radish and lettuce seeds somewhere...
Could do with a piece of say twin wall polycarbonate sheet to lay on top.
I then chucked a little pile of small flints over the plug hole and laid over a strip of landscape fabric that will cover the mainly the bottom hole and prevent a mud plug. It also blocks the overflow hole.
What to plant, salad? Got some radish and lettuce seeds somewhere...
Could do with a piece of say twin wall polycarbonate sheet to lay on top.
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I give you the SALAD...erm BARth!
Found an unopened bag of Wickes compost and dug that in with the sifted soil. Planted 4 lettuce, a dozen radish and 6 beetroot. Never grown any of them, my old man was always the gardener accompanied by a cloud of Silk Cut.
(Numbers might be off as I'm two glasses into a bottle of Châteauneuf-du-Pape).
Two types of radish, I opened the packets and dropped a load of each so what's gone in is therefore a mix.
Gave it a watering can full with an added dollop of organic Miracle-Gro.
Guess I need to build a little, hinged cloche above it now?
Found an unopened bag of Wickes compost and dug that in with the sifted soil. Planted 4 lettuce, a dozen radish and 6 beetroot. Never grown any of them, my old man was always the gardener accompanied by a cloud of Silk Cut.
(Numbers might be off as I'm two glasses into a bottle of Châteauneuf-du-Pape).
Two types of radish, I opened the packets and dropped a load of each so what's gone in is therefore a mix.
Gave it a watering can full with an added dollop of organic Miracle-Gro.
Guess I need to build a little, hinged cloche above it now?
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Not one of my lettuce seeds germinated. I do however have more beetroot plants than you can shake a cane at.
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I grow beetroot every year...I prefer to grow golden beetroot as you can't usually get them in the shops.
This year I'm going to try doing a second batch in pots...these will get planted once the first crop is harvested.
Very very good on all crops . good as a foliar feed too on salad stuff and your Bonsai plants if you have any .
Add well composted cattle manure as you fill the bath , about 1/4 of it to 3/4 soil will give you fantastic results for years . Just don't try parsnips or carrots or other long growing season long rooted root crops in it , as you'll get roots like a pair of cows tits.
Such long rooted crops prefer older manured 3 to four yr old beds that have been cropped by several other crops as the ground will be too rich in phosphates etc.
Look up crop rotation of manured ground for a better insight .
Adding such a compost will also help make a wick to retain a consistent level of moisture in the free draining chalk infill .
When they're almost 50 mm high try planting some in a shady ground .. they will grow slowly and tend to resist bolting & being slow grown not so rock hard but keep an eye out for slugs having a feed .
The ones we pickled this year in May were sown in late April last year and planted in a south shaded north facing bed , none of them were woody when we lifted them for pickling . We topped & tailed them ,then scrubbed them then slow cooked them in the slow cooker for five hours ( first time wee've done this ) we found it's much better than pan boiling them and nowhere as stinky too.
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I refuse to buy Cucumbers the rest of the year as the shop bought ones are a pale imitation of home grown ones.
In the greenhouse they're amazingly productive too with 2 plants giving us more Cucumbers than we can use and give away from June until late September every year.
Well worth growing in my opinion if you've got a greenhouse or warm south facing outside wall the grow them up.
In the greenhouse they're amazingly productive too with 2 plants giving us more Cucumbers than we can use and give away from June until late September every year.
Well worth growing in my opinion if you've got a greenhouse or warm south facing outside wall the grow them up.
Eat them whole washed like a hotdog sausage as soon as they get to 3 inches long.... raw with strips of cheese \or ham, chicken or beef. They are also good onntheir own when chilled well .
Olha our Ukrainian house guest ( now flown the nest to live with a great guy ) used to nick any cucumbers that didn't have a bit of red wool tied to it .
We also grew cornichons & round hairy apple cucumbers outside for her , for straight forward eating and some for salt & sugar pickling .
I've hung a shop cool fridge reflective curtain across the back north facing wall of the glasshouse the reflected light , heat made an amazing difference though having everything in tubs and on five 16 yr old hostess trollies on hot days & simply wheeled them outside and connected things up the auto water to a different tap point
