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gil
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Joined: 08 Jun 2005
Posts: 18416

Posted: Mon Jul 09, 07 6:43 pm Post subject:
Most of the ordinary peas never germinated (mange tout going well so far). Perpetual spinach beet - 2 rows as a temporary measure - almost zilch germination despite use of potting compost in drills. Cima di rapa 40 day - not a sign. Sown almost 40 days ago, too.

Vic

Joined: 16 Feb 2005
Posts: 387
Location: Sherborne, Dorset

Posted: Tue Jul 10, 07 9:26 am Post subject:
I'm finding this thread strangely cheering - how nice to know its not just us!

Nick

Joined: 02 Nov 2004
Posts: 34535
Location: Hereford

Posted: Tue Jul 10, 07 9:28 am Post subject:
Strikes me we need a recipe for slugs.

judith

Joined: 16 Dec 2004
Posts: 22789
Location: Montgomeryshire

Posted: Tue Jul 10, 07 9:28 am Post subject:

Nick Howe wrote:

Strikes me we need a recipe for slugs.

Sadly I think that even dpack couldn't come up with a good recipe.

Mary-Jane

Joined: 13 Jan 2005
Posts: 18397
Location: The Fishing Strumpet is from Ceredigion in West Wales

Posted: Tue Jul 10, 07 9:43 am Post subject:

judith wrote:

Nick Howe wrote:

Strikes me we need a recipe for slugs.

Sadly I think that even dpack couldn't come up with a good recipe.

Hark...I hear the clatter of a gauntlet hitting the ground...

cab

Joined: 01 Nov 2004
Posts: 32429

Posted: Tue Jul 10, 07 9:46 am Post subject:

Nick Howe wrote:

Strikes me we need a recipe for slugs.

Most slugs are only barely edible. Although I hear tell of them being dried out slowly over a fire, powdered, and turned into a porridge. Whether thats actually 'edible', or whether its even rather poisonous, I have no idea.

Blacksmith

Joined: 25 Jan 2005
Posts: 5025
Location: Berkshire

Posted: Tue Jul 10, 07 10:32 am Post subject:
Caps off, stand easy.............. Carrots, missing. Presumed engulfed under withy wind. Beetroot. missing. presumed captured by mares tail. We will remember them.

dougal

Joined: 15 Jan 2005
Posts: 7184
Location: South Kent

Posted: Tue Jul 10, 07 11:20 am Post subject:

Nick Howe wrote:

Strikes me we need a recipe for slugs.

If even the French wouldn't eat the things, I think we must presume that they really are inedible...

cab wrote:

... I hear tell of them being dried out slowly over a fire, powdered, and turned into a porridge. Whether thats actually 'edible', or whether its even rather poisonous, I have no idea.

Maybe someone misheard Heston Blumenthal? https://www.bbc.co.uk/food/recipes/database/snailporridge_74858.shtml

Even beetles don't eat them quickly. But frogs... OK, so we could go in for farming frogs for the table, and feed them on a diet of slugs...

cab

Joined: 01 Nov 2004
Posts: 32429

Posted: Tue Jul 10, 07 11:59 am Post subject:

dougal wrote:

Maybe someone misheard Heston Blumenthal? https://www.bbc.co.uk/food/recipes/database/snailporridge_74858.shtml

Wrong gastropod old chap

Snails are alltogether scrummier, they're less muscly, they rely on a shell for protection. Slugs are alltogether togher and slimier. Go on, go and finger some and see

Went

Joined: 19 Mar 2006
Posts: 6968

Posted: Tue Jul 10, 07 1:48 pm Post subject:

cab wrote:

dougal wrote:

Maybe someone misheard Heston Blumenthal? https://www.bbc.co.uk/food/recipes/database/snailporridge_74858.shtml

Wrong gastropod old chap

Snails are alltogether scrummier, they're less muscly, they rely on a shell for protection. Slugs are alltogether togher and slimier. Go on, go and finger some and see

Seems that our distant cousin ate them:

https://www.foodreference.com/html/artinsects9.html

tahir

Joined: 28 Oct 2004
Posts: 45709
Location: Essex

Posted: Tue Jul 10, 07 1:52 pm Post subject:
Something has eaten into the mesh (not wondermesh) tunnel that I was using to protect my carrots, a 15 mtr row nibble to the ground

Tittch

Joined: 17 Feb 2006
Posts: 1768
Location: Chichester

Posted: Tue Jul 10, 07 4:20 pm Post subject:
6 Sweet Corn plants. RIP. Fell victim to the sudden heat... We will remember them...

Bebo

Joined: 21 May 2007
Posts: 12590
Location: East Sussex

Posted: Tue Jul 10, 07 9:09 pm Post subject:

Potatoes - Blight (although I'm hoping the spuds are OK as I've cut the haulms off)
Ridge cucumbers - sowed them two early and they didn't even make it into the ground
Cabbage and cauliflowers - first sowing succumbed to the heat in April
Spring onions - the dog decided to sleep in the trough that they were planted in and flattened the lot just after they germinates
Peas - bloody crows got most of the first sowing
Carrots, beetroot and parsnips - poor germination in the hot weather at the beginning of spring

I thought things were going well here, but writing that lot down has just depressed me.

Aqui

Joined: 11 Jul 2007
Posts: 19
Location: somewhere between London and Essex

Posted: Wed Jul 11, 07 12:32 pm Post subject:

spuds. Still sitting in their chitting boxes on the spare room window sill. Oops. Was expecting Baby Aqui to arrive a little later than he did and then for it not to take 2 months before I could spend more than 10 mins not sitting down! Will they keep for next year? The 4 that I did manage to plant either dried out (lack of water earlier in the summer - remember that when it wasn't raining?) or eaten by the slimey b*ggers.

Everything else didn't happen this year - seeds still in packets. Oh well - next year!

tahir

Joined: 28 Oct 2004
Posts: 45709
Location: Essex

Posted: Wed Jul 11, 07 12:34 pm Post subject:

Aqui wrote:

Will they keep for next year?

Nope, but you might still be able to plant em now.

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