An overenthusiastic idiot. With a spade.

gunners71uk · Sat Feb 18, 2006 7:23 am

well i be bumswizzled aunt sally has been looking for you !!!
hiya hedgie please to meet you hope the weather is good for us gardeners this year
regards
gunners

hedgewitch · Sat Feb 18, 2006 8:33 am

A HUGE welcome to the forum

I'm a Dorset lass myself, though I don't live there anymore. Where abouts in Dorset are you?

hedgewizard · Sat Feb 18, 2006 12:30 pm

I'm near Dorchester, at a little place called Tincleton near Puddletown. No, really, you skeptical folks - we're in the Piddle Valley. Welcome to Dorset 8)

I bookworm a lot, but I have very little real experience... learning as I go, and very happy to share, but I'm here to learn from the rest of you!

woolcraft · Post: # 11923Post **woolcraft** » Sat Feb 18, 2006 1:09 pm

Great picture Catweazle Hedgewitch. Isn't this site great, I've spent my spare minutes since I joined reading through a real wealth of experience. Sue

Andy Hamilton · Sat Feb 18, 2006 1:35 pm

Hello there hedgewizard, just round the corner from where I live then (sort of) - good to have another person from the south west about. - have you seen much in the way of wild food about at the moment? We managed to get a bumper hall of oyster mushrooms the other day, so much so that we ended uyp drying loads.

Welcome to the forum mate.

Tigerhair · Post: # 11977Post **Tigerhair** » Sat Feb 18, 2006 6:47 pm

Welcome to the site!

Libby · Post: # 11990Post **Libby** » Sat Feb 18, 2006 7:57 pm

Hiya Hedgewizard

diver · Post: # 12122Post **diver** » Sun Feb 19, 2006 7:23 pm

hello, hedgewizard and welcome to the site

Jessica · Post: # 12250Post **Jessica** » Mon Feb 20, 2006 8:05 pm

Hello Hedgewizard, and a big welcome from ireland, you sound a bit like me with poly tunnel and hens and raised beds it,s a great site i even got water butts in last week to save on the well water, i am only new to this site myself , i even got OH to put lights out in the poly tunnel thats how bad i am gone now out in tunnel till all hours.

Well good luck jessie

hedgewizard · Wed Feb 22, 2006 1:31 pm

Ah yes... I do all my best lawnmowing by moonlight and I'm NOT joking (although that was before Earthmoving Day last year - much less grass now)

I'm Irish by birth myself - born and bred in Belfast city. I escaped though. We had a saying, "All wise men come from Ballymena - and the wiser they are, the faster they come"

ina · Post: # 12451Post **ina** » Wed Feb 22, 2006 9:34 pm

This is not a joke either - tilling your soil at night reduces certain weeds... Can't remember which ones, but they need the light impact for germination, so working at night does make sense at times!

hedgewizard · Wed Feb 22, 2006 10:08 pm

That is so cool. Now I have an excuse!

ina · Post: # 12461Post **ina** » Wed Feb 22, 2006 10:30 pm

Wear one of those headlamps. And be prepared for neighbours calling out the men with white coats...

hedgewizard · Wed Feb 22, 2006 10:36 pm

Yeah, they sell LED headlamps that run forever on one battery in Focus. One of my friends here goes slug-hunting with one and lifts about a hundred in her tiny back garden before she gets bored. Trouble is, she's the slugs' number one predator... doesn't that mean that the other predators won't move in?

ina · Post: # 12465Post **ina** » Wed Feb 22, 2006 10:40 pm

Quite possible... I could never be bothered to go out slug hunting at night. I use the trap method - newspaper and carpet traps, which I lift more or less regularly and collect the beasties. That probably leaves enough for other predators. I had always hoped a hedgehog would move in, left piles of branches etc in the corner, but no luck so far. And haven't got round to digging my pond yet for frogs and ducks, so those predators aren't here yet, either!