[LivvyW]

Vegmandan,  i dropped in on your diary today and the snowy/frost foggy tree photos are really beautiful.  (in Jan 09)

What a stunning place to live. Thanks for sharing them.

[Kagganz]

I've just spent nearly an hour reading it too, it's brilliant and so informative (plus a beautiful place to live)  

[vegmandan]

Wow !!. Thank you    

[thebear]

Yep, great photos. What camera are you using please?

[vegmandan]

Just a Sony Cybershot 7.2 mp

I think they're about £80.

So,nowt fancy.

[Kiwi]

I've just spent a happy hour or so reading it. It's brilliant! I've learned so much too. I did not know that's what you do with leeks! I think I'll copy your chicken wire thingy for peas.
I can't believe how neat it all is. I admit to being pretty anal about mine, but have to weed every day to keep it neat and tidy and it still doesnt look as good as yours ( it is hot and humid here so things do grow fast - that's my excuse anyway!)  The things you grow in your poly tunnel, could they be grown outside too? I grow most of the same things, but outside in the veggie patch. At the moment we're over run with courgettes.
I'm having gooseberry probs - in that I have none! looking at your diary we really are pretty much exactly 6 months different.

Thank you so much for taking the time to make such a lovely diary.

[nothinghasdiedyet]

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NVM I have found the link  :oops:

[corynsboy]

I'm a fan too.  I enjoy my visits to your site.  I'm always amazed by the cleanliness and order of your growing areas.  

Really great framing of the Haw Frost pictures.  Do you use a tripod for your shots?  

The growing of show of vegetables is a bit of a dark art.  You're growing prize onions from seed under lamps.  Hero!

I'll drop a link to your site on my blog when I post my latest musing next weekend.

[vegmandan]

I'm a fan too.  I enjoy my visits to your site.  I'm always amazed by the cleanliness and order of your growing areas.  

Really great framing of the Haw Frost pictures.  Do you use a tripod for your shots?  

The growing of show of vegetables is a bit of a dark art.  You're growing prize onions from seed under lamps.  Hero!

I'll drop a link to your site on my blog when I post my latest musing next weekend.

Cheers for the link.

I just keep my plot tidy and weeded because I'd rather weed when they're tiny rather than wait 'till they're ready to seed.

And It stops me smoking for an hour or so 'cos I can't roll a fag when my fingers are covered in cack.

The show onions under these new lights are a new experience.

Don't know how they'll do,but it's only a bit of a laugh anyway.

[tallulah]

Vegmandan,  i dropped in on your diary today and the snowy/frost foggy tree photos are really beautiful.  (in Jan 09)

What a stunning place to live. Thanks for sharing them.

Hear hear!  (or is it here here?)  I've often admired the skills of aforementioned vegman!

[annie b]

Edit
NVM I have found the link  :oops:

Well I wish I could! I'm sorry to be thick or obtuse...but I can't find the diary anywhere....please put me out of my misery....

[annie b]

Edit
NVM I have found the link  :oops:

Well I wish I could! I'm sorry to be thick or obtuse...but I can't find the diary anywhere....please put me out of my misery....

Somehow, from somewhere I can now see the pictures....ooh and when did all the avtar photos arrive?I swear they've just come on to the page and I've never seen them before.

[LivvyW]

annieb, just click on the box below vegmandan's message. It'll take you straight there.

Sorry i'm not computer literate enough to have left a link with my original message.

[pushrod]

Hi vegmandan - i see you are taking your onion attempts pretty seriously. I like to grow big onions as well but usually content myself with big examples of the "smaller" varieties as i like them to keep well and have good taste. I have tried robinson's mammoth onions in the past and had them well over 5lb without a great deal of effort other than digging a really deep bed for them in the previous october and loading it with masses of compost and fertilizer. The wind knocking them over is my biggest problem.

Are you growing Ailsae?  Do the little pips come from the flowering heads of other 2nd year onions? I thought i would try mammoth onions again this year but unfortunately the seed is not in my local shop yet. I have got some kelsae seed at the pricking out stage though. I think i will have to invest in some windbrake material if i am going to take it seriously. Where do you show yours?

[Parsnip]

It's superb Dan, I've been absolutely transfixed...keep it up!!! it's so interesting...I'll be poppong in and out regularily now..

I've signed your guest book too.