The Random seed pot!
Posted by: Veggie - 09-08-2020, 11:38 PM - Replies (12)

What do you do with old seeds? OK, you may do a bit of viability testing but seriously, you're never going to sow 1000 lettuces - why do they put so many in a packet?
I'll tell you what I do - not that you'll be surprised. Wink
I empty the old seeds into a jar/pot and give them a stir. One pot for seeds of edible plants, the other for flowers. Then, I find a bare patch of soil and scatter it with seeds, sit back and wait to see whether any germinate.
Since all the edible seeds will be together, I know that whatever germinates will be edible - just as all the flower seeds probably are not. 
I've been topping up the Edible seed pot today and it contains:-
Onions and leeks
Carrots
Fennel
Brassicas of all sorts
Radish
Celery
Cress
Coriander
Lettuce
Rocket.

Whatever grows is a bonus. All we are saying, is give seeds a chance.  Cool

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  Hazelnuts
Posted by: Veggie - 09-08-2020, 10:40 AM - Replies (6)

Found a few green nuts on the ground today - the squirrels take most of them.
Worth looking out for on your travels and earmarking for a later visit when they'll be ripe.

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  Elderberry
Posted by: Mikey - 09-08-2020, 07:33 AM - Replies (6)

In the south the elderberry is almost ripe, just pray for calm weather over the next couple of weeks.



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  Emoji’s
Posted by: Mikey - 09-08-2020, 06:48 AM - Replies (18)

Ok so I’m a bit lazy and prefer to do a quick response not a full one, as a result emojis aren’t available unless I create my own. So far I’ve sussed out the following,

: ) = Smile smile
; ) = Wink wink
: D = Big Grin grin
: P = Tongue sticks tongue out
: ( = Sad sad 
: @ = Angry angry 
: heart : = Heart 


These are pretty much my core responses and some I know but don’t use, do you know any others?

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  Forcing tomatoes to ripen by stopping watering them
Posted by: Curly - 09-08-2020, 12:27 AM - Replies (15)

Has anyone ripened their tomatoes by not watering them, I have read that you can force tomatoes into ripening by stopping giving them water, has anyone tried this

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  Purple podded peas
Posted by: Mikey - 08-08-2020, 09:42 PM - Replies (4)

I have grown these before but stopped as I found the flavour a bit of a cross between a pea and a broad bean. I don’t remember the variety.

I found a packet of 10 Heritage seeds Robinson which I’ve put into a tub so I can move it into the greenhouse later in the year. I’ve never grown this variety so don’t know how sweet they are but, for those that grow the purple varieties is there a really sweet variety?

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  Social distancing in the vegetable garden;)
Posted by: Veggie - 08-08-2020, 08:05 PM - Replies (8)

For the past few months we've been distancing ourselves from others by 2 metres/6 feet in old money.  Its an "exclusion zone" that nobody else should enter.
What if it were an "inclusion zone" and within that zone there should be something edible or useful growing?

I've been testing it out, standing in random places around the garden and imagining this circle in which I am the centre.  The area vaguely known as "lawn" was the most difficult - I had to move towards the edges to be within reach of an apple tree or raspberries. I'll work on correcting that because I don't like to be beaten by my own rules. Wink

Try it, I'll be interested in your results.  Cool

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  Hummingbird hawk moth
Posted by: Small chilli - 08-08-2020, 05:22 PM - Replies (8)

This needs to be in the what made you happy thread & wildlife photos thread. So it can have it’s very own little corner here. 
I’ve not seen one of these beautiful moths for over 10 years. So I was delighted to spot one feeding on my Buddleia This afternoon. 

Even happier that I got a half descent photo of it.

   

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  Blackberries
Posted by: Veggie - 08-08-2020, 05:13 PM - Replies (12)

    Plenty of blackberries around at the moment - picking some every day for breakfast.
These are in the wild hedge in the garden so I don't have to fend off any other pickers.
For most of the year I call these brambles and curse them because they're so scratchy - now I call them blackberries and welcome them. Smile

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  Hestia Dwarf Runner bean
Posted by: Veggie - 08-08-2020, 12:53 PM - Replies (3)

           

Very pretty, worth growing in a pot/hanging basket in the flower garden - but I won't grow them in the veg garden again as they take the space of a normal Runner and, so far, don't seem to be very productive. The Beans are normal size - not dwarf ones.

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