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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...

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...

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...

Green Aura wrote: ↑

Mon Feb 18, 2019 8:05 pm

no insects to pollinate it though.

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.

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...

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.

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.

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.

Hiya Doofa, nice to see you again, where you bin?

...and grow a pot or two of tomatoes, they're a doddle on a south(ish) facing windowsill.

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...

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...

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...

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)

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...