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Nick



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PostPosted: Tue Mar 23, 21 12:31 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
    

HA! I haven't yet grown anything except brambles.

 
Shan



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PostPosted: Tue Mar 23, 21 1:03 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
    

Nick wrote:
Shan wrote:
Nick wrote:
Shan wrote:
Nick wrote:
sgt.colon wrote:
Looking good Nick. I like how you have roped the dog in to helping as well.

Have you decided what you are going to grow in them?


Well. Beans (runners and French), peas, onions, sweetcorn, red cabbage and rocket were winners last year. I've added in beetroot, leeks and pak choi into the mix so far. Also some spuds for one of the heavier beds, to break it up a bit. And strawberries and cut flowers in one. Baths get used for sweetpeas, successfully. Plus the asparagus bed, and I appear to have bought, on Shan's hearty reccomendation, some Jerusalem Artichokes. They'll go in a bath, too, I suspect. Last time I planted them we got rid of them eventually, by selling the house.

Greenhouse is for tomatoes and chillies. My usual supplier has let me down this year, so I'm having to plant my own.


You're 'special'. I wouldn't wish them on anyone else.


They are the vegetable that keeps on giving. Louise will enjoy them immensely.

Self generated tub bubbles?


Redneck jacuzzi.

Now then. Poly tunnel. We’ve a space for one. Lots of frames on ebay. Are replacement skins easily available off the roll, to fit any size?


How on earth would I know - I spend my life replacing sheets of glass on the damn greenhouse, not plastic sleeves on poly tunnels.

PS the 'bubble tub' is about to become another casualty. Will be up for sale, in May.

 
Nick



Joined: 02 Nov 2004
Posts: 34535
Location: Hereford
PostPosted: Tue Mar 23, 21 1:11 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
    

Poly carbonate in the greenhouse. Rookie error there.

I thought the bubble tub was going to be your new chicken house on the mountain?

 
Shan



Joined: 13 Jan 2009
Posts: 9075
Location: South Wales
PostPosted: Tue Mar 23, 21 1:22 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
    

No. I don't do polycarbonate.

After drawing up a list of what needs to happen, we came to the conclusion that it was one bridge too far. J is now actually refusing to even look at 'the list'.

 
Nick



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Location: Hereford
PostPosted: Tue Mar 23, 21 2:15 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
    

Shan wrote:
No. I don't do polycarbonate.

After drawing up a list of what needs to happen, we came to the conclusion that it was one bridge too far. J is now actually refusing to even look at 'the list'.


ROFLMAO.

 
sgt.colon



Joined: 27 Jul 2009
Posts: 7380
Location: Just south of north.
PostPosted: Wed Mar 24, 21 7:52 am    Post subject: Reply with quote
    

Nick wrote:
sgt.colon wrote:
Looking good Nick. I like how you have roped the dog in to helping as well.

Have you decided what you are going to grow in them?


Well. Beans (runners and French), peas, onions, sweetcorn, red cabbage and rocket were winners last year. I've added in beetroot, leeks and pak choi into the mix so far. Also some spuds for one of the heavier beds, to break it up a bit. And strawberries and cut flowers in one. Baths get used for sweetpeas, successfully. Plus the asparagus bed, and I appear to have bought, on Shan's hearty reccomendation, some Jerusalem Artichokes. They'll go in a bath, too, I suspect. Last time I planted them we got rid of them eventually, by selling the house.

Greenhouse is for tomatoes and chillies. My usual supplier has let me down this year, so I'm having to plant my own.


ETA. Obviously, I’ll be planting far too many courgette plants.


Sounds like you should have a busy and productive year.

Never tried Jerusalem Artichokes. Are they nice?

 
Shan



Joined: 13 Jan 2009
Posts: 9075
Location: South Wales
PostPosted: Wed Mar 24, 21 8:45 am    Post subject: Reply with quote
    

Nick wrote:
sgt.colon wrote:
Looking good Nick. I like how you have roped the dog in to helping as well.

Have you decided what you are going to grow in them?


Well. Beans (runners and French), peas, onions, sweetcorn, red cabbage and rocket were winners last year. I've added in beetroot, leeks and pak choi into the mix so far. Also some spuds for one of the heavier beds, to break it up a bit. And strawberries and cut flowers in one. Baths get used for sweetpeas, successfully. Plus the asparagus bed, and I appear to have bought, on Shan's hearty reccomendation, some Jerusalem Artichokes. They'll go in a bath, too, I suspect. Last time I planted them we got rid of them eventually, by selling the house.

Greenhouse is for tomatoes and chillies. My usual supplier has let me down this year, so I'm having to plant my own.


ETA. Obviously, I’ll be planting far too many courgette plants.

You cheeky arse.

 
dpack



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PostPosted: Wed Mar 24, 21 9:02 am    Post subject: Reply with quote
    


 
Nick



Joined: 02 Nov 2004
Posts: 34535
Location: Hereford
PostPosted: Wed Mar 24, 21 9:09 am    Post subject: Reply with quote
    

Shan wrote:
Nick wrote:
sgt.colon wrote:
Looking good Nick. I like how you have roped the dog in to helping as well.

Have you decided what you are going to grow in them?


Well. Beans (runners and French), peas, onions, sweetcorn, red cabbage and rocket were winners last year. I've added in beetroot, leeks and pak choi into the mix so far. Also some spuds for one of the heavier beds, to break it up a bit. And strawberries and cut flowers in one. Baths get used for sweetpeas, successfully. Plus the asparagus bed, and I appear to have bought, on Shan's hearty reccomendation, some Jerusalem Artichokes. They'll go in a bath, too, I suspect. Last time I planted them we got rid of them eventually, by selling the house.

Greenhouse is for tomatoes and chillies. My usual supplier has let me down this year, so I'm having to plant my own.


ETA. Obviously, I’ll be planting far too many courgette plants.

You cheeky arse.


🤷‍♂️?

 
Nick



Joined: 02 Nov 2004
Posts: 34535
Location: Hereford
PostPosted: Wed Mar 24, 21 9:11 am    Post subject: Reply with quote
    

sgt.colon wrote:
Nick wrote:
sgt.colon wrote:
Looking good Nick. I like how you have roped the dog in to helping as well.

Have you decided what you are going to grow in them?


ETA. Obviously, I’ll be planting far too many courgette plants.


Sounds like you should have a busy and productive year.

Never tried Jerusalem Artichokes. Are they nice?


Yeah. I like them. Sort of nutty potato. Good roasted or in soup. Dead easy to grow. Impossible to get rid of. Make you fart. That’s about all you need to know.

 
Shan



Joined: 13 Jan 2009
Posts: 9075
Location: South Wales
PostPosted: Wed Mar 24, 21 9:23 am    Post subject: Reply with quote
    

May your Asparagus cross breed with your Jerusalem artichoke.....

 
dpack



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PostPosted: Wed Mar 24, 21 9:48 am    Post subject: Reply with quote
    

ja's are ace if you have sunny space, they are robust

 
Nick



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Location: Hereford
PostPosted: Wed Mar 24, 21 1:41 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
    

dpack wrote:
ja's are ace if you have sunny space, they are robust


Robust. Before and after harvest.

 
sgt.colon



Joined: 27 Jul 2009
Posts: 7380
Location: Just south of north.
PostPosted: Wed Mar 24, 21 6:16 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
    

Quote:
Farting and hard to get rid of


Hmmmmm, you've not really sold them to me.

 
Nick



Joined: 02 Nov 2004
Posts: 34535
Location: Hereford
PostPosted: Wed Mar 24, 21 6:18 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
    

sgt.colon wrote:
Quote:
Farting and hard to get rid of


Hmmmmm, you've not really sold them to me.


Sounds like every husband, ever.

 
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