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Re: Watercress
What an interesting site, thank you!
Still might give it a go though, it's not poisonous. The hens eat it
enthusiastically but there's enough for all of us :-)
Mary
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Re: Watercress
The message <486f2709$0$761$4c56b...@maste r.news.zetnet.net>
from "Mary Fisher" contains these words:
Doesn't sound very appetising ...
see:-
[link]
Jennifer
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Re: Watercress
I didn't see it up there ...
Oh, that would be a shame. I thought it might make a good salad ingredient.
Mary
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Re: Strange fruit, but what is it ??
Antony NT. Torpoint, Cornwall
Growing around the outer wall
Going from the leaves I thougt Magnolia, but googling 'magnolia seed'
images. They were nothing like it.
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Re: Strange fruit, but what is it ??
In message <674t64p88o4i8r28rphng8fpm9k55 if...@4ax.com>, nobody
writes
Try Cornus kousa or one of its allies, such as Cornus nuttallii or
Cornus capitata.
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Re: Strange fruit, but what is it ??
On 4/7/08 22:08, in article 674t64p88o4i8r28rphng8fpm9k55i f...@4ax.com,
Where was it growing? Location might make a difference to size, perhaps.
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Re: Oleander
On 4/7/08 17:26, in article bdsbk.150158$8k.17...@newsfe18 .ams2, "stuart
It's almost incredible! Poor child.
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Re: Echium candicans (syn. E. fastuosum)
On 4/7/08 18:29, in article 41ns64dgjq0o5rqvq7s5ocv94ptl21 5...@4ax.com,
For the first time this year, we have managed to get E.piniana though the
winter. We think it's because they had some shelter from other plants and
trees and were planted in a sloping well-drained border. They've just
flowered and we hope they're going to set seed and have babies all around
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Re: Strange fruit, but what is it ??
No its not a strawberry tree, they are approx the size of a small
marble 1cm dia and round. This is about 2.5cm or larger, but is more
squashed.
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Re: Blight - Grrrrrr
Yes the farming forecast has been giving warnings. I managed to tie my
French 'Blue Lake' climbers to the poles. They look a bit sad at 30cm high.
Most of my neighbouring allotmenteers, have gone for the English varieties
and they're almost 2 metres high!!! - (the beans) :-)
Bertie
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Re: Blight - Grrrrrr
The problem is when Continental Highs hang around over France, the Atlantic
fronts, stack up against them, often stationary over the West Country. When
the Highs decide to drift off East, the fronts follow in their wake, but
most of the water has already been dumped (on us), so in the SE you may only
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Re: My capsicum and aubergine plants
Rusty Hinge 2 writes
No, not unless you are harbouring a secret desire to enjoy aubergines
Doubt it. You presumably have a better palate for beer than me - I'd
prefer aubergine to beer any day.
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Re: Base for greenhouse
Colette A. O'Brien writes
I don't have that problem since my plants are all on trays. But unless
you need to water a lot in winter, any water spills should evaporate
pretty soon.
Depends on when you do that. Since my greenhouse is used for
overwintering a lot of plants, any cleaning has to happen in summer.
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Re: Base for greenhouse
Best solution is to dig a six inch deep by 9 inch wide trench foundation
underneath the base .
Dig similar 2ft wide trench similar to act as footway between ends.
This gives you a sort of 8 shaped concrete in plan
Pour barrow/ready mix with security fixings embedded therein, with assembled
base thereon.
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Re: Base for greenhouse
For what it is worth, here is my two pennyworth:
Our new greenhouse is on a concrete base nominal 4 inch thick, the
proprietry steel base is bolted to this, i used resin capsule anchor bolts
you can get from Screwfix.
The reason for this is the exposed location, and the soft sandy soil, (a few
hundred yards from the Irish Sea at the north end of the Wirral Peninsular).
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Re: Blight - Grrrrrr
Well we'll both be battening down the hatches at the moment then and
tomorrow, there's half a hurricane blowing out there
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Re: Scarifier
I used one like the the one in your link and got 2 bin bags full of
thatch from my front lawn.
And yes it was much easier than a garden rake, but you have to go over
it a number of times.
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Re: Blight - Grrrrrr
Both myself and my neighbour, planted in different areas of the allotment,
than the blighted areas of 2007. His got the first signs on Tueday and mine
this morning. However, my experience with 'blight years' is : when one
allotment gets it, we all get it - regardless of variety.
Bertie
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Re: Blight - Grrrrrr
30 miles West of you, just outside Liskeard. Yep I've been chopping the
haulms off. One plus about the recent rain, Tuesday I planted in total, 200
9ins high, caulies, brocolli, savoys and harvest cabbage.
Bertie
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Re: beware parsnips
'ang on. You wouldn't hve to travel to yours ...
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No, but I did it for very many years. British I hope?
Believe me I've tried all sorts of ways with strawberries.
I've met my match.
Sometimes one has to admit that one can't control the Earth. Even my little
bit of it.
Mary
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Re: A surprise!
In article ,
I wouldn't. Composting will destroy the spores, as far as I know,
and they are ubiquitous, anyway. I had my broad beans wiped out
by rust one year, composted the lot, and it didn't recur. To a
first approximation, rust is caused by miasma.
Like coral spot, incidentally.
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Re: beware parsnips
The message <486decdb$0$18031$4c56b...@mas ter.news.zetnet.net>
from "Mary Fisher" contains these words:
Did I say how big they had grown to in a couple of days?
Well, I don't want to rish a heart-attack. I might have to have regular
doses of medicine on the way, to reassure myself.
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Re: beware parsnips
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from "Kate Morgan" contains these words:
Ah, I meant half a sack of oblong quinces. Half a sack of strawberries
might make a lot of juice...
BTW, if you put a bottle of whisky into a larger bottle, add some sugar
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Re: beware parsnips
The message <486ded11$0$764$4c56b...@maste r.news.zetnet.net>
from "Mary Fisher" contains these words:
/wild strawbs/
Plenty of sun, some soil, and a good deal of water is all they require,
and IME, they will attack the surrounding plot en masse within a year of
planting.
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Re: $%*X$! Cats
The message
from fedupofsalt contains these
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Oil of citronella...
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Re: beware parsnips
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from K contains these words:
And judging by the results of sowing wild oats...
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Re: beware parsnips
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from "The Old OakTree" contains these words:
Oh, you've got horseflies in your neck of the woods then, too?
Lucky shot, but not unintended. Couldn't reach the thing to swat it...
( [link] )
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Re: Watercress
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from Sacha contains these words:
I mentioned that several times
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Re: Watercress
The message <486e3dd2$0$762$4c56b...@maste r.news.zetnet.net>
from "Mary Fisher" contains these words:
The answer was yes
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Someone will be along any minute to give you a recipe for duck soupweed.
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Re: My capsicum and aubergine plants
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from n...@cus.cam.ac.uk (Nick Maclaren) contains these words:
Well, cooked in a sauce of tomato purée, garlic, black pepper, marjoram,
ground celery seed, olive oil, a shake of Lea and Perrins, some dark soy
sauce, I'm sure aubergine would taste delicious - but that would apply
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Re: A surprise!
Thanks! Guess I've just been unlucky then!
The garlic was ready for harvesting anyway, and I'm still taking
rhubarb, so not adversely affected those, but I've had to pull up the
mange tout as it had spread to the pods and was worried about eating
them, so disappointed about that.
Would you advise I burn it rather than compost? I'd hate to spread
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Re: Watercress
Did you not see my post with a link to a site with a duckweed soup recipe?
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Re: A surprise!
In message , Nick Maclaren
writes
Yes. I suppose I should have caveated the possibility of an alternative
host.
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