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- Fri Feb 22, 2019 4:20 pm
- Forum: Eco Products and Innovations
- Topic: Compostable plastic bags
- Replies: 2
- Views: 13
Compostable plastic bags
Just recently one of our local supermarkets has been dishing out compostable bags at the checkout for soap and other smelly stuff to keep separate from food, also for double wrapping fresh meat. Then a couple of days ago one of my radio magazines was delivered in a compostable bag. So as I knew noth...
- Tue Feb 19, 2019 11:59 am
- Forum: Herbs and Vegetables
- Topic: What are you growing right now?
- Replies: 43
- Views: 3195
Re: What are you growing right now?
Sub Arctic Plenty. Anybody had any experience with that? Yes I've grown them a few times I take notes of all the tomatoes I've ever grown and my notes for S.A.Plenty are; "Later than Stupice, ripe fruit in 147 days, nice size, reasonable taste but less acid" That 147 days is from sowing to 1st ripe...
- Tue Feb 19, 2019 10:19 am
- Forum: Herbs and Vegetables
- Topic: What are you growing right now?
- Replies: 43
- Views: 3195
Re: What are you growing right now?
Things that I'm growing right now and harvesting. I still have several parsnips and quite a few leeks still, plus my sprout plants are still there for harvesting "sprout tops" and then spring greens, plus a row of turnip greens (grown specifically for greens) We've eaten nearly all the overwintering...
- Tue Feb 19, 2019 8:32 am
- Forum: Herbs and Vegetables
- Topic: What are you growing right now?
- Replies: 43
- Views: 3195
Re: What are you growing right now?
Pollinate by hand.
As I grow courgettes and squash in the tunnels, and I have mesh barriers on the doors, if I didn't pollinate by hand I wouldn't get any fruit at all.
The barriers are to keep butterflies and moths out, not bees.
- Sun Feb 17, 2019 12:52 pm
- Forum: Allotments, Veg Patches and Container Gardening
- Topic: Water butt - no down pipe
- Replies: 11
- Views: 334
Re: Water butt - no down pipe
I will say that I have a problem with the temperatures though. Everything is far too forward, my mirabelle plum is in bloom and my nectarine is just about to flower as are the cherry trees. I assume that it's probably the same in the south east of England fruit growing area, so I really hope for the...
- Sun Feb 17, 2019 12:43 pm
- Forum: Allotments, Veg Patches and Container Gardening
- Topic: Water butt - no down pipe
- Replies: 11
- Views: 334
Re: Water butt - no down pipe
Not a problem here, although it rarely is.
I irrigated both of my tunnels yesterday which used roughly 700 litres of water from my storage tanks.
This morning the tanks are full again.
I irrigated both of my tunnels yesterday which used roughly 700 litres of water from my storage tanks.
This morning the tanks are full again.
- Thu Feb 14, 2019 10:19 am
- Forum: Welcome New People Say Hello
- Topic: Hello from South Africa
- Replies: 11
- Views: 269
Re: Hello from South Africa
Welcome to our forum Tbird, nice to meet you
Good luck with your plans, one thing's for sure you can't beat freshly harvested fruit and vegetables.

Good luck with your plans, one thing's for sure you can't beat freshly harvested fruit and vegetables.
- Thu Feb 14, 2019 10:14 am
- Forum: Allotments, Veg Patches and Container Gardening
- Topic: Water butt - no down pipe
- Replies: 11
- Views: 334
Re: Water butt - no down pipe
Carrying on from Doofa's idea, what's wrong with a cheap shed, maybe even with no door, just to sit in when a shower comes along?
Just a small shed, nothing stored in it, serving as shelter and rainwater harvesting.
Just a small shed, nothing stored in it, serving as shelter and rainwater harvesting.
- Wed Feb 13, 2019 3:48 pm
- Forum: The ish Local - (Chat)
- Topic: anything strange?
- Replies: 6
- Views: 317
Re: anything strange?
Hiya Doofa, nice to see you again, where you bin? 

- Mon Feb 04, 2019 10:08 am
- Forum: Allotments, Veg Patches and Container Gardening
- Topic: Second flowering of peppers.
- Replies: 10
- Views: 1117
Re: Second flowering of peppers.
...and grow a pot or two of tomatoes, they're a doddle on a south(ish) facing windowsill.
- Thu Jan 31, 2019 9:17 am
- Forum: Reduce, Reuse, Recycle
- Topic: Mattresses
- Replies: 22
- Views: 4764
Re: Mattresses
These people who find second hand mattresses objectionable, I wonder what they would think of feather mattresses? I spent the first 8 years of my life sleeping in a feather bed, which was replenished every now and again when a few chicken were slaughtered. I loved it as you could snuggle down in a h...
- Tue Jan 29, 2019 3:51 pm
- Forum: Reduce, Reuse, Recycle
- Topic: Tidying up with ...
- Replies: 32
- Views: 1096
Re: Tidying up with ...
I'm firmly in the camp of "it will come in useful one day", and so I keep nearly everything that could have a use, or could be used to repair something else. Last year we had a skip in and I foolishly threw a lot of stuff, just so my wife could get her car in the garage, and at least twice since I h...
- Tue Jan 29, 2019 1:26 pm
- Forum: Herbs and Vegetables
- Topic: F1 or open pollinated?
- Replies: 6
- Views: 309
Re: F1 or open pollinated?
I always thought that carrot fly was attracted to carrots by smell, and parsnips smell nothing like carrots. But that could be an old wive's tale as well ... not that I'm suggesting that you're an old wife, Flo. :iconbiggrin: On the other hand there was a very large vine weevil grub buried in the mi...
- Tue Jan 29, 2019 12:26 pm
- Forum: Herbs and Vegetables
- Topic: F1 or open pollinated?
- Replies: 6
- Views: 309
Re: F1 or open pollinated?
Good theory Flo, except I am growing Guernsey parsnips next to Countess F1 parsnips and the Countess are canker free (and a better texture and flavour)
- Tue Jan 29, 2019 11:54 am
- Forum: Herbs and Vegetables
- Topic: F1 or open pollinated?
- Replies: 6
- Views: 309
F1 or open pollinated?
Years ago before F1 seeds were commonly available I always had problems with my sprout plants. I only needed about 6 plants and every year some of those plants had problems, stunted growth, open "blown" sprouts with maybe 2 growing into useful productive plants. Then Peer Gynt F1 appeared in seed ca...