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This is the place to discuss not just allotments but all general gardening problems and queries which don't fit into the specific categories below.
(formerly allotments and tips, hints and problems)
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marshlander
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Post: # 99430Post marshlander »

red wrote:why llamas?
Don't Llamas look after flocks of sheep 'cos they think the sheep are baby llamas ?

Hay is often in short supply and the farmers will cut it for you and pay for the pleasure if it's good enough quality.
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Post: # 99447Post snapdragon »

Millymollymandy wrote:1/4 of an acre is slightly over 1000m2. That's pretty big for a veg patch!!!!! :shock: .....................?
sorry MMM i was most probly getting mixed up with an old edict that said 1/4 of an acre was sufficient to feed a family - many of the twixt wars bungalows were built with that size of garden (now mostly split into three, sold off and built on)
maybe the 1/4 would include a chicken house and possibly a pigsty, I doubt if grains would have been grown but certainly crops of tatties/beets, peas and beans for dry storing, and all year crops like kale and cabbages - I guess I must have read this at some time cos generally I have notaclue
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