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chez
Joined: 13 Aug 2006 Posts: 35935 Location: The Hive of the Uberbee, Quantock Hills, Somerset
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sgt.colon
Joined: 27 Jul 2009 Posts: 7380 Location: Just south of north.
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dpack
Joined: 02 Jul 2005 Posts: 46238 Location: yes
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Posted: Wed Mar 18, 20 1:41 pm Post subject: |
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sprouting seeds should arrive tomorrow, hooves crossed. good enough for shackleton, good enough for me to introduce as tunnel kit, good for times like now.
i planted onion sets for spring onions and maybe 30 full size ones later, mangetout at the back of those boxes to climb up the wall, assorted lettuce for cut and grow again.
i have peas and cucumbers to germinate and a few other things to pop in any bare earth as catch crops, radish are good cos the tops make good saag as well having radishes etc, same with peas, the young leaves are rather nice and pinching out gives an early crop and bushy plants.
this year everything is tried and tested for this yard so i am only growing stuff i know works well and fast.
as sensible dog walking is acceptable forage seems plausible so at this time of year there are tree buds, early vetches etc to be going on with and soon there will be enough salads than an hour foraging can feed 20 for a week. |
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Shan
Joined: 13 Jan 2009 Posts: 9075 Location: South Wales
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tahir
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derbyshiredowser
Joined: 11 Feb 2007 Posts: 980 Location: derbyshire
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Mistress Rose
Joined: 21 Jul 2011 Posts: 15987
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sgt.colon
Joined: 27 Jul 2009 Posts: 7380 Location: Just south of north.
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dpack
Joined: 02 Jul 2005 Posts: 46238 Location: yes
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Nicky cigreen
Joined: 25 Jun 2007 Posts: 9887 Location: Devon, uk
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dpack
Joined: 02 Jul 2005 Posts: 46238 Location: yes
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chez
Joined: 13 Aug 2006 Posts: 35935 Location: The Hive of the Uberbee, Quantock Hills, Somerset
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derbyshiredowser
Joined: 11 Feb 2007 Posts: 980 Location: derbyshire
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dpack
Joined: 02 Jul 2005 Posts: 46238 Location: yes
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Mistress Rose
Joined: 21 Jul 2011 Posts: 15987
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Posted: Mon Mar 23, 20 8:58 am Post subject: |
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Dog fur is more difficult to felt than wool. If you have any wool, even unusable woollen jumpers that are past any use, take the bad bits out of them (good bits can be reused for other items), tease apart a bit and mix with dog hair. Otherwise the way to felt is to put layers in opposite directions then rub and pound like mad with soap or washing up liquid and a very little water. Putting between two layers of cloth can be useful at this stage. If you just want pellets, form into a pellet larger than you want and do the rubbing like mad stage.
As far as peas are concerned, we were advised by our neighbour to start peas and beans indoors, and put them out only when they had grown on well. At that stage, the rats and mice are less interested, and if the remains of the seed are still there, the roots will take over and with any luck the plant will not be lost. If they are taking the growing part, then protection is the only way forward I would think. |
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