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- Wed Mar 06, 2024 4:37 pm
- Forum: Food, Nutrition and Agriculture
- Topic: Advice for a hopeless gardener
- Replies: 678
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Re: Advice for a hopeless gardener
Whatever you see fit. The seeds right on the end though , grow like billy o ! Sorry, what do you mean by "The seeds right on the end"? Do you mean the ones to the outside edge of the cluster with new ground available to them? I guess I should harvest from the middle of the patch because t...
- Wed Mar 06, 2024 9:34 am
- Forum: Food, Nutrition and Agriculture
- Topic: Advice for a hopeless gardener
- Replies: 678
- Views: 39716
Re: Advice for a hopeless gardener
Reporting in on the egyptian tree onions..... With some questions... Of the 10 or so that survived initial growing. there's now about 8 big chunky and well established multi bulblet plants. I gave the treetop bulbs extremely little help and it looks like 3 or so set themselves down and prospered. S...
- Tue Mar 05, 2024 8:51 pm
- Forum: Food, Nutrition and Agriculture
- Topic: Advice for a hopeless gardener
- Replies: 678
- Views: 39716
Re: Advice for a hopeless gardener
Optimistically I chucked some protective net over. Should I have raised that off the ground a bit? Beginners question on protective netting over seeds..... should it be propped up like a gazebo/canopy or am I ok just laying it on the ground and whipping it off when the seedlings sprout through ( ca...
- Tue Mar 05, 2024 8:47 pm
- Forum: Food, Nutrition and Agriculture
- Topic: Advice for a hopeless gardener
- Replies: 678
- Views: 39716
Re: Advice for a hopeless gardener
We have just eaten perennials Welsh onions. Other perennials are on the way soon! Zero problems with growing. Perennial plants are the winner. Reporting in on the egyptian tree onions..... With some questions... Of the 10 or so that survived initial growing. there's now about 8 big chunky and well ...
- Tue Mar 05, 2024 6:08 pm
- Forum: Food, Nutrition and Agriculture
- Topic: Advice for a hopeless gardener
- Replies: 678
- Views: 39716
Re: Advice for a hopeless gardener
ONIONS Rest In Peace :D Dammit, the wind has done for me again! I had germinated a window propagator full of onion seeds and had given them a week in my poly greenhouse shed thingy and all was well. My tray of tomato seedlings were also put out there to acclimatise. And what do i find this morning? ...
- Mon Mar 04, 2024 8:43 pm
- Forum: Finance
- Topic: 24hr Spot prices Live
- Replies: 89
- Views: 77199
- Sun Mar 03, 2024 5:51 pm
- Forum: How are you preparing
- Topic: What Preps are you doing this week? Part 11
- Replies: 269
- Views: 17488
Re: What Preps are you doing this week? Part 11
Mr A accused me of being a "doomsday prepper" the other day just because I bought 4 jars of cranberry sauce. They were cheap as it's now the season of eggs, bunnies and hot cross buns and not Christmas. They have a long shelf life but won't last that long because I love the stuff. Do you ...
- Sat Mar 02, 2024 9:24 am
- Forum: Food, Nutrition and Agriculture
- Topic: Advice for a hopeless gardener
- Replies: 678
- Views: 39716
Re: Advice for a hopeless gardener
Possible problems Too cold - this will encourage fungus Old seed - germinates more slowly/unevenly letting fungus take a hold. Too wet - seed drowns. tisfsue or compost should be damp not wet. Probably all of the above, especially too wet. If you try again use cooled camomile tea to water Useful to...
- Fri Mar 01, 2024 1:35 pm
- Forum: Food, Nutrition and Agriculture
- Topic: Advice for a hopeless gardener
- Replies: 678
- Views: 39716
Re: Advice for a hopeless gardener
Reporting my failure:- I thought I'd give you a laugh at my expense. Cress: Simplest microgreen to grow. Ideal candidate for hydroponics. Kids can do it. Pathetic and abject failure image below. Failed again. How hard can it be to grow enough cress for an egg butty? This time I used a bed of coir c...
- Thu Feb 29, 2024 6:59 pm
- Forum: Food, Nutrition and Agriculture
- Topic: Value Range foods compared
- Replies: 301
- Views: 14055
Re: Value Range foods compared
A quick comparison of Bolognese sauces. Candidate #3 : Cucina bolognese sauce from ALDI 65p Dolmio £1.50 : Baresa 49p : Cucina 65p It's 18 months on since I taste tested these pasta sauces and prices have lurched ahead, typically doubling. Even at Lidl. So today, a heads up...... Cucina pasta sauce...