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Hi Lizzy,
I’ve bought a pkt of mixed all sorts of lettuces(I couldn’t decide or buy 10 varieties) from Real Seeds, & have just now potted on in the polytunnel, yes they are coming out of my ears now. Will be selling plants too @ this rate on the roadside. & I wouldn’t accept one pkt as compensation either, ask for the compost too delivered!More expensive than the seeds!!!!I like the Energy I get from Real Seeds too(comes FOC too) with every delivery. Or am I just saying honesty.
Good Luck
DavidScary, yesterday I was looking @ my Apricot tree, It’s got lots of big shinny buds on it,
For the last 2 years it has produced wonderful Apricots of all sizes from huge4″ down to 1″ diameter fruits, yes they are very delicious too, so much so that one has to keep checking. Yes the tree has been well composted around, given a bit of worm fluid & ocaisional human too. I do grow it with a competing Rambling Rector(& me hacking back under control). It’s along a south wall with a little overhanging gutterabove, @ 300′ in Hereford. Yes I feel I’m due a bad year where the flowers don’t time it right with the frosts….we will find out soon enough, as my Apricot tree is the first fruit of the year by miles. & I guess the bees like them to because it’s warm & fragrant.i like roses in my fruit trees & this winter I found why I really like them in fruit trees, the deer seem to leave them alone, but this year I went on a rose pruning spree because they were dominating everywhere especially the hedges, well the deer have had a field day & lots of trees look upset! Going to have to hang human hair everywhere.
Looking forward to delicious Apricots!!
Have decide to fall in love with my Couch Grass, yes I’m doing all of the above, & my two prong implementation hoe is getting very shinney too!! Hopefully it decides to give up the ghost before I do, long enough for the beds to grow veges!!
My dog Audrey has visited Charles’s garden, I don’t think she got into too much trouble & I think Steph fell for her & took pictures too! She has loads of training(Audrey) & will chase all sorts & great for keeping cats from poohing who do @ night.
Shame neither like slugs, now that would great!!
I think raised beds help too, a small boundry which what dogs like, you are the boss & they like/want that too!
Yes, I collect the the water in the curved gutters too & give it back to the raised beds, when I want too!
Yes I curved it, yes completely mad I know, but a lot of fun too, the cover was easy, esp when only tension it on a very hot day(definitely don’t try on a cold or cool day). There are so many manufacturers out there, some are helpfull some are rude. I chose http://www.robinsonpolytunnels.co.uk/ & delt with Mr Robinson the whole time. I found he helped me every step of the way.
One clever thing I did by mistake was to buy one of his min-polytunel 8’x4′ which I can move around my raised beds, it teaches you so much about putting the big one up.
One bit of advice I read was to put up the biggest poly tunnel you can ‘manage’ & the next bit I would give is prepare for some ‘HOT BEDS’ too.
Seeing Charles’s Hot Bed in his greenhouse is just amazing, the freeheat proporgating & you get some compost 2 years down the road too.
Yes it’s worth-it & can be beautiful too!
a donf’ go for it
Yes I plant Spinach in amongst my strawbs, it worked last year with a good crop of strawbs unaffected by the birds. This year the spinach was planted in spring & is not covering the strawbs as well. So this autumn I will plant spinach in strawberry patch. It is an amazing crop this year with loads of strawbs & flowers. Going to have to net this year.
Yes it’s wonderful you can now blow-up the pics to see them much clearer!
& yes this version is no-dig too bigger & faster!
Or/& try this:
http://lazydogtools.co.uk/how_to_use_lazy_dog.html
Docks need to be done when ground is wet or else you’ll loose some of the tap root
It’s been great this winter with the ground so wet they just slid out!Hi Stringfellow,
We’d all love to know where you found these magic seeds…….
I too am waiting for mine to appear.My local organic grower has celeriac & beetroot like footballs, he says he uses loads of muck & loads of water.
My wild strawbs are like triffids & seem to appear anywhere for no apparent reason, & may turn into a delicious weed.
Yes Bluebell we all have this & me too I reckon I get diff. weeds from the same field in different years, this year I’ve got grass, the beauty is get-in-quick & it’s doddle to weed, Next year or this if you put it on before the winter it’s usually gone or nearly so & it’s even easier, but as Charles says elsewhere, the weeds are nothing compared to those who dig. My weeds this are pathetic compared to last year., & much easier to pull up! What I’m saying is next year will be even easier. Wish I had 2yr old stuff!
Thank you Jayjay,
http://www.potatoday.org/potatodays.htm
This link is fantastic & gives us all opportunity to buy tubers for this year @ incredible prices & organic if we want too! & will keep the link for next year.
& also talk to the experts or as the chap’s wife told me ‘the potatohead’!!Oh dear, seems I’m very forgetful & it’s only the 3rd!
My mother used to roast pumpkin in NZ, to die for!!(never a pie though),
probably much better for you baked!Hope you are continuing your Shumei Test next year….