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Grow Your Own / Re: Gone-to-seed leeks still edible
« Last post by cc on Today at 15:23 »I fry the stem the bit flower head on.
Very nice.
You can use the flower stem in a salad.
Very nice.
You can use the flower stem in a salad.
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Grow Your Own / Re: Magpies eating slugclear?!
« Last post by cc on Today at 15:17 »I think you will find many birds don't need grit.
"ALL seed eating birds consume grit in one form or another regardless of whether they hull their seeds or not"
" pigeons and doves ingest seeds whole and seem to do fine without grit."
I think I will throw in parrots who hull the seeds themselves and owls!!
"ALL seed eating birds consume grit in one form or another regardless of whether they hull their seeds or not"
" pigeons and doves ingest seeds whole and seem to do fine without grit."
I think I will throw in parrots who hull the seeds themselves and owls!!
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Chatting on the Plot / Re: What’s the weather like where you are? 2024
« Last post by Lardman on Today at 11:33 »Bit of a mixed bag so far today - bright warm sunshine one minute and the dark thunder clouds the next. The only constant is the bitter wind from the West keeping everything moving along swiftly.
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Chatting on the Plot / Re: Bird watch
« Last post by Glosterboy on Today at 11:25 »Photo taken today. I did originally count ten eggs. And then six fledglings. One left. Who does appear to be looking fairly healthy. The cold, wet weather certainly not good for raising a successful brood!!! Tens days later than last year and still counting.
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Grow Your Own / Re: Slugs and Snails EVERYWHERE
« Last post by New shoot on Today at 11:01 »When the new pellets were first introduced someone on here (and forgive me but I can’t remember who) posted to say they needed to be used a bit differently to the old ones.
Use sparingly, but regularly and start before you plant up was the gist of it. I have been doing this with scatterings across areas I intended to plant up for a week or 2 beforehand, then top up scatterings every few days afterwards. So far, not so bad. I have been using the blue ones.
It is also worth making sure your plot edges are cut if they are grass and that you keep weeds down so there is as little cover as possible. If you have raised beds, patrol the edging boards and any other spots likely to provide a spot to nest up - piles of pots and the like.
My main casualties have been ornamental plants I potted up in the back garden at home, because I am very wary of using pellets anywhere the chickens could get to them. Survival of the fittest here and a process of trying to select things that are not attractive to them
Use sparingly, but regularly and start before you plant up was the gist of it. I have been doing this with scatterings across areas I intended to plant up for a week or 2 beforehand, then top up scatterings every few days afterwards. So far, not so bad. I have been using the blue ones.
It is also worth making sure your plot edges are cut if they are grass and that you keep weeds down so there is as little cover as possible. If you have raised beds, patrol the edging boards and any other spots likely to provide a spot to nest up - piles of pots and the like.
My main casualties have been ornamental plants I potted up in the back garden at home, because I am very wary of using pellets anywhere the chickens could get to them. Survival of the fittest here and a process of trying to select things that are not attractive to them
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Chatting on the Plot / Re: What’s the weather like where you are? 2024
« Last post by mumofstig on Today at 10:03 »Here, for our delight, we have grey skies, drizzle and 12C, YUK!
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Grow Your Own / Re: Slugs and Snails EVERYWHERE
« Last post by Cavolo Hero on Today at 09:56 »Oh dear, I’m sorry to hear of all the devastation!
We are currently in sunny Spain but know it was pouring yesterday back home so dread to think what it’s all going to be like when we get back
We are currently in sunny Spain but know it was pouring yesterday back home so dread to think what it’s all going to be like when we get back
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Chatting on the Plot / Re: What’s for tea? 2024
« Last post by Lardman on Today at 09:42 »Day #3 of slow cooked piggy dinner with trimmings. I managed to forget the apple sauce again yesterday. Tried the M&S sage and red onion stuffing - no bueno - won't buy that again back to paxo. Spuds are still turning to soup in the water so I'm slicing them and layering with leeks and nuking them.
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Grow Your Own / Re: Are you giving your tomato plants asprin?
« Last post by hasbeans on Today at 09:38 »Mr 'Garden Myths' has a decent but inconclusive explanation here: https://www.gardenmyths.com/aspirin-spray-tomatoes-vegetable-garden/
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Grow Your Own / Re: Slugs and Snails EVERYWHERE
« Last post by Hampshire Hog on Yesterday at 23:33 »Perfect time to not allow effective slug killing pellets ?!