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- Fri Jul 20, 2012 7:28 pm
- Forum: The ish Local - (Chat)
- Topic: Bloody dog!!
- Replies: 6
- Views: 1885
Re: Bloody dog!!
Hi Demi, have had a good bit of experience with large breed dogs, had Great Danes and did Great Dane rescue for 9 years. One of the best things I have found for walking large breed dogs is a thing called a Lupi, it gives you complete control over the dog so you can control with one hand, there is al...
- Tue Jul 17, 2012 5:42 pm
- Forum: Welcome New People Say Hello
- Topic: Hello from Ireland
- Replies: 6
- Views: 2479
Re: Hello from Ireland
Thanks very much, have settled in well, been having a look round the place and it is lovely
- Tue Jul 17, 2012 11:42 am
- Forum: Herbs and Vegetables
- Topic: Sweet potatoes
- Replies: 5
- Views: 2420
Re: Sweet potatoes
Thanks Demi, I managed to read it this time. I am pleased my foliage looks just like the photo's, just have to hope they turn out ok, we do have long daylight hours here in the summer, so finger crossed
- Mon Jul 16, 2012 5:54 pm
- Forum: Herbs and Vegetables
- Topic: Sweet potatoes
- Replies: 5
- Views: 2420
Re: Sweet potatoes
Thanks very much MSM I won't be worrying much about the moles as we dont have any in Ireland, now slightly worried about triffidesque plants romping through the polytunnel. Demi, I can't access this link. I haven't read about taking off flowers, but I know flowers sap energy which is why I usually n...
- Mon Jul 16, 2012 11:32 am
- Forum: Herbs and Vegetables
- Topic: Tomatoes for low light levels ?
- Replies: 21
- Views: 9349
Re: Tomatoes for low light levels ?
I did try growing indoor tomatoes about 10 years ago and they got wall to wall aphids, but I didn't sow new seed, I rooted some sideshoots. Do you get any aphids on the indoor stuff??, they may have caught them off my citrus trees, which have now died from being exposed to -21 here in 2010. I HATE m...
- Mon Jul 16, 2012 10:33 am
- Forum: Herbs and Vegetables
- Topic: Sweet potatoes
- Replies: 5
- Views: 2420
Sweet potatoes
I got some sweet potato slips and they are now growing away in the polytunnel; as recommended, I planted the slips through some black plastic. I can't fnd much information on cultivation, has anyone any experience. If they flower, should I remove the flowers (I always remove potato flowers), the fol...
- Mon Jul 16, 2012 10:26 am
- Forum: Herbs and Vegetables
- Topic: Tomatoes for low light levels ?
- Replies: 21
- Views: 9349
Re: Tomatoes for low light levels ?
I had forgotten about the expensive postage to here. I live 20 miles from the border so I get mine sent to a Royal Mail post office and a friend picks up my post. I would be more than happy to share seeds as I save mine from year to year so my purchase 3 years ago is still going strong. Sorry you di...
- Sun Jul 15, 2012 10:11 pm
- Forum: Herbs and Vegetables
- Topic: Tomatoes for low light levels ?
- Replies: 21
- Views: 9349
Re: Tomatoes for low light levels ?
Not an expert, but if there are trusses and no tomatoes that have formed perhaps they did not get pollinated and the flowers just dropped off. Do you get many bees in your greenhouse?, do you grow flowers to attract pollinators into your greenhouse. Check out The Real Seed company, they have lots of...
- Fri Jul 13, 2012 10:03 pm
- Forum: Allotments, Veg Patches and Container Gardening
- Topic: Parsnip foliage as an insecticide?
- Replies: 8
- Views: 2525
Re: Parsnip foliage as an insecticide?
My rabbits and poutlry avoid parsnip foliage like the plague but eat most othery greenery quite happily, nothing seems to eat ground elder either
- Fri Jul 13, 2012 9:59 pm
- Forum: The ish Local - (Chat)
- Topic: Post Viral Fatigue ? is there life after ? how....
- Replies: 9
- Views: 4521
Re: Post Viral Fatigue ? is there life after ? how....
I had this and got better. I read a book called why ME which was helpful, there may be other books out there now. I cut things out of my diet such as bread and mushrooms as yeasts and fungi apparently cause the body to fight the off these organisms and also sugar as you can have an overgrowth of can...
- Thu Jul 05, 2012 2:34 pm
- Forum: Herbs and Vegetables
- Topic: Anyone grown Black Pepper from seed
- Replies: 5
- Views: 2495
Re: Anyone grown Black Pepper from seed
Thanks Boboff, a good link. Have been delving a bit more, I think they grow them from cuttings in India commercially. I found somewhere that said abrade them with sulphuric acid, the wizard I live with has got some (??) but won't let me touch it, but he will do it for me. They need soaking for two m...
- Tue Jul 03, 2012 7:20 am
- Forum: Herbs and Vegetables
- Topic: Anyone grown Black Pepper from seed
- Replies: 5
- Views: 2495
Re: Anyone grown Black Pepper from seed
They are, but you can grow them as houseplants so I thought I would give them a go
- Mon Jul 02, 2012 11:22 pm
- Forum: Herbs and Vegetables
- Topic: Anyone grown Black Pepper from seed
- Replies: 5
- Views: 2495
Anyone grown Black Pepper from seed
Hi, I bought some black pepper seed from a supplier in Canada. They look a lot like the sort I put in the pepper mil, not sure if I have been ripped off. Anyway, I have soaked them, sowed them and they are in the propagator cooking away. So far nothing has happened, have I done anything wrong, has a...
- Mon Jul 02, 2012 5:09 pm
- Forum: What's in the pot? Recipes and anything about Cooking
- Topic: Peaches
- Replies: 25
- Views: 7614
Re: Peaches
Wish I had a glut of peaches. I would probably make a bit of peach alcohol, same way as you would make sloe gin, I do a mean blackcurrant vodka, have also done plum and sloe vodka, this makes me sound a bit of a boozer, but I do give small bottles away to friends and a wee drop in the dark winter ev...
- Sun Jul 01, 2012 12:16 pm
- Forum: Fruit and Nuts
- Topic: Which fruit & nut trees
- Replies: 8
- Views: 5486
Re: Which fruit & nut trees
What about ballerina fruit trees, they only get to about 6 feet and they seem to fruit quite well, can even be grown in a large pot so you can always take them with you if you give up your allotment. I think you can get a cherry on pixie rootstock which is very small. A family apple tree is good as ...