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 Topic: Chives - what to do with them? |
Andrea
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 Forum: Grow Your Own Posted: Tue Apr 05, 16 8:20 pm Subject: Chives - what to do with them? |
Soups would be a good way of using a decent sized pile.
I really enjoy breaking up the flowers and sprinkling on salads along with calendula petals when I'm feeling posh. |
| Topic: Fill the Gap With Foraging |
Andrea
Replies: 16
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Forum: Foraging Posted: Tue Apr 05, 16 8:14 pm Subject: Fill the Gap With Foraging |
| We're having wonderful salads at the moment based on chickweed, with navelwort, sheep sorrel, mallow and dandelion and a handful of pretty blue flowers I don't know the name of. Masses of wild radish ... |
| Topic: The Hungry Gap - what's seeing you through? |
Andrea
Replies: 13
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Forum: Grow Your Own Posted: Tue Apr 05, 16 8:01 pm Subject: The Hungry Gap - what's seeing you through? |
| We'd probably have finished the leeks ages ago only I'm often too lazy to go get them when it's dark in the evenings. |
| Topic: The Hungry Gap - what's seeing you through? |
Andrea
Replies: 13
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Forum: Grow Your Own Posted: Tue Apr 05, 16 7:57 pm Subject: The Hungry Gap - what's seeing you through? |
Fresh - Leeks, cabbages, turnip top, a few beetroot (voles keep scoffing them from under, leaving just the leaves) and lots of lovely foraged things
Stored - the last potatoes, a few marrows, plenty ... |
| Topic: No tubers on my sweet potatoes |
Andrea
Replies: 10
Views: 18696
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Forum: Grow Your Own Posted: Thu Dec 17, 15 7:08 am Subject: No tubers on my sweet potatoes |
So can you give a guesstimate of how many good growing days they had?
May to November? Went in as fairly decently rooted plants, so got away fairly quickly. |
| Topic: No tubers on my sweet potatoes |
Andrea
Replies: 10
Views: 18696
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Forum: Grow Your Own Posted: Wed Dec 16, 15 6:25 am Subject: No tubers on my sweet potatoes |
Only just seen the updates to this.
Slim, they died off following our first frost.
Roobarb, that's really interesting thankyou. Yes, they were sprawling beautifully and I did notice multiple ro ... |
| Topic: No tubers on my sweet potatoes |
Andrea
Replies: 10
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Forum: Grow Your Own Posted: Sun Nov 29, 15 12:50 pm Subject: No tubers on my sweet potatoes |
Sweet potato leaves are edible
Yes, which means the crop wasn't entirely wasted!
Sun, lots of. Good soil, tick. Water, no problem. Can't remember when they went in, but perhaps they were simply ... |
| Topic: No tubers on my sweet potatoes |
Andrea
Replies: 10
Views: 18696
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Forum: Grow Your Own Posted: Sat Nov 28, 15 4:59 pm Subject: No tubers on my sweet potatoes |
Beautiful crop of leaves but no root to speak of. Where may I have gone wrong?
Doubtful it would be a lack of sun or water. Wondering if a too rich soil might be to blame? |
| Topic: How we can help our libraries. |
Andrea
Replies: 20
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Forum: Reduce, Reuse, Recycle Posted: Thu Nov 12, 15 7:48 am Subject: How we can help our libraries. |
| I used to really enjoy a trip to the library with the kids when they were small. |
| Topic: squirrel origami phone cosy |
Andrea
Replies: 3
Views: 11922
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Forum: Make Your Own/DIY Posted: Wed Nov 11, 15 6:31 am Subject: squirrel origami phone cosy |
| .... but it's probably not a good idea to ask! |
| Topic: Acidic compost |
Andrea
Replies: 45
Views: 62135
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Forum: Grow Your Own Posted: Mon Oct 19, 15 7:59 am Subject: Acidic compost |
| Unless you've vast quantities of coffee grounds and orange peels, why do you compost them separately? |
| Topic: Canker in Cherry Trees |
Andrea
Replies: 2
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Forum: Grow Your Own Posted: Sat Oct 10, 15 6:30 am Subject: Canker in Cherry Trees |
Can anyone offer any advice on treating canker in cherry trees? I have a client with a cherry orchard which is absolutely rife with it.
Advice seems to be to prune off affected branches, but this ... |
| Topic: Considering cows - Dexters? |
Andrea
Replies: 31
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Forum: Livestock and Pets Posted: Sat Oct 03, 15 6:45 am Subject: Considering cows - Dexters? |
there are a few good books,i cant quite remember the one rob recommended to me but it was called something like "cattle behavior"
Hope I just bought the right one. It cost me 1p on Amazon  |
| Topic: Considering cows - Dexters? |
Andrea
Replies: 31
Views: 61072
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Forum: Livestock and Pets Posted: Fri Oct 02, 15 3:09 pm Subject: Considering cows - Dexters? |
| Firstly I know nothing of cattle other than my neighbours using my land for their beef herd. Living in the back of 'beyond' myself it is difficult to do AI as you need to know what you are doing, and ... |
| Topic: Considering cows - Dexters? |
Andrea
Replies: 31
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Forum: Livestock and Pets Posted: Fri Oct 02, 15 3:00 pm Subject: Considering cows - Dexters? |
is there a good reason why there are very few moos in your area?
There used to be, on a small scale. My place housed 4 at once stage (2 milking, 2 working). But it's very much an ageing population ... |
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