Permaculture & Getting Going in the Garden.

RenewableCandy · Post by **RenewableCandy** » 26 Feb 2008, 22:06

There is one gardening job I do by Torchlight: slug-assassination

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Keela · Post by **Keela** » 26 Feb 2008, 22:09

RenewableCandy wrote:There is one gardening job I do by Torchlight: slug-assassination !

Our slugs are still dormant.... hiding away... mind you I found a snail retreat the other day and I offered them up to the thrushes.

SunnyJim · Post by **SunnyJim** » 27 Feb 2008, 09:12

Put potatos in the conservatory (posh word for a falling down structure on the back of the house) last night, and put my precious 'Sweet Chocolate' Sweet Pepper seeds into modules for keeping on the window ledge last night.

This evening I hope to get my Aubergine and Tomatos in modules too....

Love this time of year!

Andy Hunt · Post by **Andy Hunt** » 27 Feb 2008, 13:12

My spinach beet is germinating!

RenewableCandy · Post by **RenewableCandy** » 27 Feb 2008, 13:31

SunnyJim wrote:Put potatos in the conservatory (posh word for a falling down structure on the back of the house) last night, and put my precious 'Sweet Chocolate' Sweet Pepper seeds into modules for keeping on the window ledge last night.

This evening I hope to get my Aubergine and Tomatos in modules too....

Love this time of year!

Modules?

SunnyJim · Post by **SunnyJim** » 27 Feb 2008, 13:54

I thought we all had escape modules???

RenewableCandy · Post by **RenewableCandy** » 05 Mar 2008, 11:32

Interesting garden info site I stumbled across while looking for information about diseases on currants...
CoDown
Pictures of types of pest (e.g. reversion), and on the other hand useful plants (e.g. feverfew), particularly useful for beginners like me.

Totally_Baffled · Post by **Totally_Baffled** » 05 Mar 2008, 20:04

How do I post pics from my PC onto these pages?

I have been slogging my guts out at the allotment and I would like to post some pics as the season progresses?

Do I need an internet page? How do I get one?

Apologies for the noob questions!

SunnyJim · Post by **SunnyJim** » 05 Mar 2008, 20:12

Andy Hunt wrote:My spinach beet is germinating!

Yay!!!!!

Off to check my seeds now......

Oh! I actually bought something this week. Rare I buy anything any more...

Got one of these....

http://www.earthway.com/1001b2006.htm

Should save loads of time on those long rows of carrots, salad and peas etc....

RenewableCandy · Post by **RenewableCandy** » 05 Mar 2008, 21:31

You're taking a bike-ride through your carrots??? Or is that some kind of weeding-machine?

RenewableCandy · Post by **RenewableCandy** » 05 Mar 2008, 21:34

Totally_Baffled wrote:How do I post pics from my PC onto these pages?

I have been slogging my guts out at the allotment and I would like to post some pics as the season progresses?

Do I need an internet page? How do I get one?

Apologies for the noob questions!

Yer right you can only post them up on here once they have net-addresses from having been posted somewhere else on the net. I have a few pictures on my facebook page: if you join facebook this is dead easy to do and facebook's free.

hardworkinghippy · Post by **hardworkinghippy** » 05 Mar 2008, 23:00

I like www.flickr.com.

You have to join, which takes a few minutes.

You get three free albums so you can store loads of photos and when you want to post them in a forum you just click and get a link which you can post in a message.

It's the fastest way I've found of storing photos and having them to hand when you're on the 'net. I was so impressed I paid extra to "go pro" and now I've more than 5,000 in Flickr (also stored on my external hard disk

) and I can post a photo in just a few seconds.

Irene

(We've finished doing all the work for the elections, now we just have to wait until Sunday to see who wins.....

)

SunnyJim · Post by **SunnyJim** » 06 Mar 2008, 08:39

RenewableCandy wrote:You're taking a bike-ride through your carrots??? Or is that some kind of weeding-machine?

That, my dear RC, is a precision garden seeder. Put seed in top. Wheel down prepared bed and it opens a trench, drops seeds in it a regular spacings and covers them up again for you. My least favorite bit of gardening is trying to create a nice trench with a hoe and then leaning over trying to space carrot seeds and the like..... I'm positively looking forward to sprinting down the rows with that though. Appropriate technology I feel. Next I want a wheel hoe which is again a human scale device for speeding up inter-row weeding. This is kind of human scale farming implements. A bit OTT for a small garden, but great on say an acre of land.

These things are time intensive but very cheap to run! Here's a wheel hoe I've got my eye on....

Ippoippo · Post by **Ippoippo** » 06 Mar 2008, 09:26

Anyone heard anything good (or bad) about Tuckers Seeds? (http://www.tuckers-seeds.co.uk/)

I got a good supply from RealSeeds (thumbs up to them)... but Tuckers have some additional Japanese varieties that the missus keeps pestering me about.

Just want to make sure I'm not going to waste money.
Seems a reputable company though.

Andy Hunt · Post by **Andy Hunt** » 06 Mar 2008, 12:46

My pumpkin seed (or it might be my butternut squash seed, I don't know because I couldn't find my white plastic things you stick in the soil and write on what's in there, I found them immediately after I'd put everything in) germinated the other day, on the very day that it snowed!

It's inside though, above a radiator. Another one has come up too - it's either a cucumber or a melon. Time will tell.

Got celery germinating too, and even chilli peppers indoors!

Might be a good year this year, fingers crossed!