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 Topic: Which red Onion seed |
ArnoldBlack
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 Forum: Grow Your Own Posted: Fri Dec 16, 11 10:40 pm Subject: How well do they keep? - depends! |
| Growing conditions and then storage are key for all Onions. Ideally you should grow them on until the tops fall over and dry out! We got Onion rot 3 years ago and have had to grow them in raised box ... |
| Topic: Which red Onion seed |
ArnoldBlack
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Forum: Grow Your Own Posted: Fri Dec 16, 11 8:02 pm Subject: Red Bunching onion |
The red bunching ones are called North Holland Blood Red. Search the Justseed site for 'Onions'. Or just ping me and I'll point you in the right direction.
Arnold |
| Topic: Which red Onion seed |
ArnoldBlack
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Forum: Grow Your Own Posted: Fri Dec 16, 11 7:54 pm Subject: Alternatives Red Onion's |
Susan's say try Red Brunswick from Justseed (of course Unwins, Fothergills etc all do them too). They also do a red bunching onion.
http://www.justseed.com/seeds/catalogsearch/result/?q=Red+Bruns ... |
| Topic: Introduction -Arnold (and Sue) |
ArnoldBlack
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Forum: Site guidelines, Announcements, Problems and Suggestions Posted: Fri Dec 16, 11 7:34 pm Subject: Introduction -Arnold (and Sue) |
Hi, I'm Arnold (married to Sue, with married daughther Samantha and Grandson Dominick).
We have been living in North Wales for the past 25 years in a village setting. The stone built house was onl ... |
| Topic: Clueless townie gets allotment.... |
ArnoldBlack
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Forum: Grow Your Own Posted: Thu Dec 15, 11 5:20 pm Subject: Clueless townie gets allotment.... |
Try planting small amounts of most things (try the allotment or small packs from www.justseed.com) to see what grows best where! Otherwise you get gluts of things and lose heart.
http://www.justse ... |
| Topic: advice on chicken poo and compost please! |
ArnoldBlack
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Forum: Grow Your Own Posted: Thu Dec 15, 11 5:16 pm Subject: advice on chicken poo and compost please! |
Little and often as it quite hot - don't use it direct on veg as it burns them to a crisp  ! We have ours on shaving so the wood bit needs to compost too. 3 months in summer, 6 in winter.
Cheer ... |
| Topic: Chinese artichokes |
ArnoldBlack
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Forum: Grow Your Own Posted: Thu Dec 15, 11 5:12 pm Subject: Chinese artichokes |
Not really but I guess soil condition is key ingredient. Cheers
Arnold |
| Topic: GYO Web Resources: Advice, seeds, supplies and more... |
ArnoldBlack
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Forum: Grow Your Own Posted: Thu Dec 15, 11 5:04 pm Subject: GYO Web Resources: Advice, seeds, supplies and more... |
Allotment packs from www.justseed.com is a good way to get started we found.
Or try Small Garden packs http://www.justseed.com/seeds/vegetables/small.html
Cheers
Arnold |
| Topic: Vegetable seeds in bulk |
ArnoldBlack
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Forum: Grow Your Own Posted: Thu Dec 15, 11 4:54 pm Subject: Vegetable seeds in bulk |
Try going on www.justseed.com they seem to have http://www.justseed.com/seeds/catalogsearch/result/?q=bulk+ of most things and if not they'll get them for you. Just ask for Nick.
Cheers
Arn ... |
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