Get,Set,Grow - New RHS Youtube series
Posted by: Veggie - 11-03-2021, 07:39 PM - Replies (3)

New veg growing series - new videos every 2 weeks - what to do. Maybe aimed at new growers but it never hurts to see how you're supposed to grow things.Wink 
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MlY6g6B7TbQ

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  Dog Nail Clipping
Posted by: mcdood - 11-03-2021, 10:03 AM - No Replies

For anyone who has reluctant dog nail clipping experience. Poor pug.

https://www.tiktok.com/@kalikohlhof/vide...93?lang=en

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Question Rainbow carrots
Posted by: Vinny - 10-03-2021, 02:08 PM - Replies (11)

Just ordered some rainbow carrot seed to give them a try. Has anyone on here grown them and are they worth it. Idea

I thought they may add a bit of colour to the plate but wondered about taste ie are they bland or quite tasty? Huh

Its a day of questions for me and I am  waiting to see if I get any more feedback (couple of ideas up til now) from my Spinach query before ordering seed. Smile

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Question Spinach
Posted by: Vinny - 10-03-2021, 12:12 PM - Replies (14)

I like eating baby spinach and lightly cooked bigger leaves. I always fail miserably growing it though, usually jetting off to seed soon after sowing! Sick

Can anyone give me a recommended variety for taste and not being liable to bolting? Huh

I also toyed with the idea of using it as a green manure once I was finished with it. To get spinach year round would I need to plant different varieties?

 Everyone has something they just can't grow and spinach is one of my constant failures. Rolleyes

That's enough questions for now. Sick

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  Supermarket Fruit Trees / Bushes?
Posted by: Broadway - 10-03-2021, 10:20 AM - Replies (4)

Did someone say the supermarkets now had fruit bushes / trees in?

Do the pound shops also do them?

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  Seed availability
Posted by: Spec - 09-03-2021, 12:37 AM - Replies (12)

Had to go out this evening to get some milk so went down to lidels when it was quite, going through the entrance doors they have set up a seed stand where you just can't miss it, so how could I possibly walk past it, I have had a search through the seed stand looking for pansy seeds at tesco and had my daughter search for them a morrisons, without success, so I thought I would get them in lidels, but none there either, so does anyone know if there is shortage of pansy seeds this year, if so is there a shortage of other seed varieties

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  So long Wesley wheelbarrow.
Posted by: Admin - 08-03-2021, 06:38 PM - Replies (17)

Alas, poor Wesley wheelbarrow departed today Sad  after many years of service his frame could take no more.

He will be sadly missed by his 10 brothers and sisters  Big Grin

I know Danny will be particularly sad at his parting Wink

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  Bizarre marketing ploy of the day
Posted by: Eyren - 08-03-2021, 02:01 PM - Replies (8)

I get the Harrod Horticultural email newsletter, just in case they have any special offers, but today's edition left me scratching my head...

It started off mundanely enough, talking about growing leeks, then took a left turn into surreality with the suggestion that I might want a walk-in fruit cage to (and I quote) "help your leeks grow to their full potential".

Clearly this is why my leeks failed last year - I only had hoops and butterfly netting over them (the netting was there for the neighbouring kale). WTAF??

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  Another Random question
Posted by: Small chilli - 08-03-2021, 09:57 AM - Replies (6)

Anyone got a 3D printer? 

Real seeds have got plans for seed measuring cups. 
I think that’s brilliant and could be very useful to some of the seedaholics among us. 
I really do like the way real seeds do things. The information they share is just fantastic. Also a very good selection of some very interesting seeds. 

https://www.realseeds.co.uk/handscoops.html

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  Lettuce appreciation society
Posted by: Small chilli - 06-03-2021, 11:26 AM - Replies (30)

Following on from Eyren post on another thread. I thought lettuce should get a little slot of its own. 
There are so many different varieties, shapes, colours and some very interesting names. 
Do you have a favourite? Any varieties you have trouble growing? Any you don’t like? Do you think they have different flavours? (Also mentioned in a reply in the other thread  Smile ). 

I really like lolla rossa, Tom Thumb, and Morton’s secret mix ( from real seeds ). I grow these every year. Along with lots of others. I’m not a fan of lobjoits green cos & little gem ( also a cos, I think ). I find them to bitter,  but I still grow them! I just like growing lettuce. 

I grew a red iceberg lettuce a few years ago, I liked that. Never found any seeds again unfortunately. Iceberg not the most flavourful but I do like the slight crunch to it.

         

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