Giving up for Lent
Posted by: Veggie - 04-03-2025, 12:29 AM - Replies (14)

Some people use the 40 Days of Lent to give up things that they enjoy - like chocolate or wine. 
Lent  starts on March 5th and ends on Thursday April 17th this year.

Are any of you giving anything up? 

I'm going to work on my Seed hoarding.  I plan to release 40 out of date packets of seed into the wilderness. One packet or type of seed every day until April 17th.

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  Today's Achievement
Posted by: Veggie - 25-02-2025, 03:15 PM - Replies (52)

Over the Pond, employees have been asked, by a Muskrat, to name 5 things they've achieved in the previous week - that's if I understand it correctly?? 
Anyway, I thought we could put our own Nutty spin on this and list our own achievements. Smile 
Remembering what we did last week may be a problem, so how about  a daily achievement? It could be something really challenging - like getting up before 10 or eating a whole Mars bar.    Please note, these are not my achievements although I did get up before 10 today. Big Grin 
Over to you!

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  Plant Identification Please
Posted by: Broadway - 23-02-2025, 12:32 PM - Replies (10)

Morning Folks

Any idea what this is please, looks like some sort of brassica to me?



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  Garden Organic Member's Experiments
Posted by: Veggie - 19-02-2025, 08:50 PM - Replies (4)

Some interesting information has come out of these experiments. Worth a browse! 
https://www.gardenorganic.org.uk/what-we...archive/p3

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  UK seed producers (not the big boys)
Posted by: Veggie - 14-02-2025, 04:16 PM - Replies (5)

Where can you buy seeds that have been produced in the UK - not imported in bulk from anywhere in the world and repackaged - you know who I mean.

Real seeds https://www.realseeds.co.uk/
Vital seeds https://vitalseeds.co.uk/
Wales Seed Hub https://www.seedhub.wales/
Seeds of Scotland https://www.seedsofscotland.com/
Beans and herbs https://www.beansandherbs.co.uk/


Please add to this list - I know there are more seed growers in the UK.

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  Moon meadow
Posted by: Small chilli - 13-02-2025, 10:08 AM - Replies (2)

I’ve just signed up for a moon meadow guide from the butterfly conservation. It popped up on my Facebook feed. The link is via google not Facebook.
https://butterfly-conservation.org/join-the-dark-side

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Music Happy Birthday, Broadway
Posted by: Veggie - 10-02-2025, 12:40 PM - Replies (4)

Happy Birthday, Danny Broadway! Hope your day is filled with happiness ..........and cake.  xx

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  Not just the Three sisters
Posted by: Veggie - 09-02-2025, 12:18 AM - Replies (9)

We've all heard about the Three Sisters method of growing where sweetcorn, climbing beans and squash are grown together and provide benefits to each other. The beans climb the corn stalks, the squash shades the ground between the plants and the beans add nitrogen to the soil.  The RHS suggests growing sunflowers in the mix too. too. https://www.rhs.org.uk/advice/grow-your-...ee-sisters

I've just read an article about Hodmedod's grower of Carlin peas who grows the carlin peas alongside Triticale cereal which provides a  support for the peas to climb up. https://digital-mag.co.uk/waitrosefood-m...eb2025/#90

This has me wondering what other crops could be "buddied up" (as the Hodmedod's grower calls it). Two plants grown in the same place providing double the harvest. 

I'm not really thinking about "companion planting" where one plant acts as a pest deterrent to another, like onions and carrots, but where one plant takes advantage of the physical characteristics of another - like beans climbing up sweetcorn. It could be like hedging your bets - if your sweetcorn is a failure, never mind, because you may still have beans, idea.

Any ideas for other combinations?

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  Seed snails!?
Posted by: SarrissUK - 08-02-2025, 12:51 PM - Replies (5)

Have you guys heard of the latest trend on Tiktok and Instagram? People are laying out plastic or something that isn't penetrable, laying compost on it, sow seeds, then roll it up into 'seed snails'. It apparently makes it easier to separate the plants later on, and it holds moisture etc, and removes the need for seed trays.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d9AinRRQ89o

Have you tried it? I might experiment with that!

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  Echium pininana snow tower
Posted by: Small chilli - 07-02-2025, 11:33 AM - Replies (10)

Does anyone have any echium pininana snow tower seeds. They would be willing to swap. Hopefully I’ve got something in my stash you’d be interested in. Unfortunately my 2 snow towers haven’t made it though the winter so I can’t save seeds Sad and I have 2 big gaps in my flower bed  ( which I can easily fill, I’m being a drama queen   Wink ).
Thank you.

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