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 Topic: Scythe blade warped while peening |
gil
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 Forum: Land Management Posted: Sun Aug 06, 23 6:12 pm Subject: Scythe blade warped while peening |
| Really sorry to hear that, dpack. |
| Topic: Scythe blade warped while peening |
gil
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Forum: Land Management Posted: Fri Aug 04, 23 8:29 am Subject: Scythe blade warped while peening |
hi dpack, I'm fine. How are you ?
I only sharpen with the finest, smoothest sharpening stone when mowing soft flat meadow with the longer 'grass blade' I used for competition. Otherwise I use the ... |
| Topic: Scythe blade warped while peening |
gil
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Forum: Land Management Posted: Wed Aug 02, 23 4:58 pm Subject: Scythe blade warped while peening |
Good advice above.
Start by getting rid of the rough curly edge with a very coarse sharpening stone. That blade really is in quite a mess.
What kind of scythe is it ? Austrian or other (such as Eng ... |
| Topic: Hi from an unusual allotment |
gil
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Forum: Welcome Posted: Sun Sep 11, 22 2:12 pm Subject: Hi from an unusual allotment |
Welcome to the nuthouse!
Perhaps you can help me provide better advice to the folks I work with here in the US. Many want to grow elderberries, but every cultivated planting I've seen loses vigor d ... |
| Topic: My allotment |
gil
Replies: 26
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Forum: Grow Your Own Posted: Sun May 24, 20 6:52 pm Subject: My allotment |
| That all looks great - congrats, and hopefully you'll soon be seeing a return on all your hard work. |
| Topic: if we could, perfect forage dinner? |
gil
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Forum: Foraging Posted: Sun Apr 26, 20 2:32 pm Subject: if we could, perfect forage dinner? |
Nettle and wild garlic soup
Pot roast rabbit with wild garlic, sauteed ground elder
Wild rasps and blaeberries |
| Topic: Adventures in grafting |
gil
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Forum: Grow Your Own Posted: Sun Apr 26, 20 2:29 pm Subject: Adventures in grafting |
Looking good, dpack, and good to be keepng historical varieties alive.
A couple of years back, I did some grafting, and planted three proper apple trees in behind my existing cordons. I thought the ... |
| Topic: Manure or legumes |
gil
Replies: 12
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Forum: Grow Your Own Posted: Sat Mar 28, 20 12:33 pm Subject: Manure or legumes |
| slim - that's a much better way of explaining it. |
| Topic: Quick crops for isolation |
gil
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Forum: Grow Your Own Posted: Sat Mar 28, 20 12:32 pm Subject: Quick crops for isolation |
| That makes sense. I might try a few. I find if I cut or break the top off a cabbage of any sort, a fair number produce more tiny heads, which are good for 'greens' anyway. Do the young ones do that if ... |
| Topic: Manure or legumes |
gil
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Forum: Grow Your Own Posted: Fri Mar 27, 20 8:50 pm Subject: Manure or legumes |
Legumes are lazy, and will only fix as much N as the soil needs. So I'd save the chicken shit for another time, and let the legumes work for their keep.
(interesting fact I never knew before I did ... |
| Topic: Quick crops for isolation |
gil
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Forum: Grow Your Own Posted: Fri Mar 27, 20 8:45 pm Subject: Quick crops for isolation |
Nettles are coming along nicely up here, and wild garlic is looking good.
Other seeds to sprout : if you have trouble growing brassicas of any kind (e.g. too windy to grow tall ones, or soil too sa ... |
| Topic: the worst banquet ever |
gil
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Forum: Recipes, Preserving, Homebrewing Posted: Fri Jul 12, 19 10:33 pm Subject: the worst banquet ever |
| Glass noodles. An alternative to jellyfish. |
| Topic: Our New Plot |
gil
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Forum: Land Management Posted: Mon Mar 26, 18 12:03 pm Subject: Our New Plot |
| Exciting developments, Fee ! Hopethe move goes well and you get settled in. |
| Topic: World Naked Gardening day. Sat May 6th |
gil
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Forum: Grow Your Own Posted: Wed May 03, 17 8:18 pm Subject: World Naked Gardening day. Sat May 6th |
The carnival parade goes past my garden that afternoon. I don't want to add to the horror.
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It's all about the gherkins.
Great combo of post and sig  |
| Topic: Of Apple Blossom and a Knife. |
gil
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Forum: Grow Your Own Posted: Mon Apr 24, 17 7:58 pm Subject: Of Apple Blossom and a Knife. |
We had several hours of snow and hail today. Glad my apple trees are nowhere near blooming.
It's the wild fruits in blossom at the moment : the sloes and the geans I'll be worrying about. |
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