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    WHAT ARE WE DOING IN THE GARDEN TODAY - 2021

    Picked and shelled the last of our climbing french beans and dehyrated them to store over winter. Lifted the butternut squash - seed packet said...
    Post by: Dave W, Oct 26, 2021 in forum: General Gardening Discussion
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    Land/Water Wildlife

    Thanks Vicky XX
    Post by: Dave W, Oct 15, 2021 in forum: Wildlife Corner
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    Land/Water Wildlife

    Thanks. It was a case of right place, right time and a bit of patience.
    Post by: Dave W, Oct 14, 2021 in forum: Wildlife Corner
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    Land/Water Wildlife

    Gordon the gastropod, snapped while he was racing along the windowsill. I was rather pleased with this as it's hard to get a photo of the mouth...
    Post by: Dave W, Oct 13, 2021 in forum: Wildlife Corner
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    Compost Bins and CardBoard/Paper ?

    Just about all of our kitchen waste, except meat, goes into out two worm composting Dalek bins and gets pretty rapidly consumed by the...
    Post by: Dave W, Oct 12, 2021 in forum: General Gardening Discussion
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    Comfrey again.

    I harvest my comfrey bed about three times a year. I chop the stems and leaves up and put them in a plastic bin covering them with water and leave...
    Post by: Dave W, Oct 12, 2021 in forum: Compost, Fertilisers & Recycling
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    Tomato Growing Thread 2021

    Today I cut my losses and picked all the toms in the tunnel - some red and some still green, binned all the iffy looking ones and put the rest on...
    Post by: Dave W, Sep 28, 2021 in forum: Edible Gardening
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    Tomato Growing Thread 2021

    Worst incidence of blight I've ever experienced. On 8th August my outdoor cherry toms were looking great and we'd started picking a few, but 2...
    Post by: Dave W, Sep 25, 2021 in forum: Edible Gardening
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    WHAT ARE WE DOING IN THE GARDEN TODAY - 2021

    Spent the past couple of days digging out hundreds of bluebells that had spread like a virus. They have been consigned to our garden waste bins...
    Post by: Dave W, Jun 4, 2021 in forum: General Gardening Discussion
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    Where do you sell your own grown on excess plants?

    I advertise any of mine on the village FaceBook and put them out at the bottom of our drive. Folk in the village are pretty good at sharing plants...
    Post by: Dave W, May 24, 2021 in forum: General Gardening Discussion
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    Breakfast is simply nuts!

    Hi Pete! I've been in the garden :-) ;-). I've been a bit distracted from GC over the last few years due to some health issues, but am more or...
    Post by: Dave W, May 23, 2021 in forum: Members Gallery
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    Breakfast is simply nuts!

    Breakfast entertainment at present. [ATTACH]
    Thread by: Dave W, May 23, 2021, 9 replies, in forum: Members Gallery
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    Where do I begin?

    I'd be tempted to give it a good raking or scarifying and then scatter lawn seed and tread or roller the seed in. Then keep moist for a few weeks...
    Post by: Dave W, Aug 19, 2018 in forum: Lawns
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    Cordon tomatoes - Time to snip the top off and call it a season?

    Do an online search for Blightwatch and subscribe as an amateur grower. You'll get email alerts when there's a Hutton Period - when temperature...
    Post by: Dave W, Aug 19, 2018 in forum: Edible Gardening
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    Cordon tomatoes - Time to snip the top off and call it a season?

    I'd be tempted to stop them now so they swell and ripen. I'm starting to pick our outdoor baby plums when orange and pop them into trays in the GH...
    Post by: Dave W, Aug 18, 2018 in forum: Edible Gardening
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    Weed fabric when planting new hedging

    I do use membrane and bark chippings in some areas of our garden and have found that blackbirds DO dig for worms as the chippings break down....
    Post by: Dave W, Aug 9, 2018 in forum: General Gardening Discussion
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    Cucumber glut - A solution at last.

    I'm doing much the same tomorrow and taking the nurse a bag of baby plum toms and a cuc. It's nice to be able to share.
    Post by: Dave W, Aug 8, 2018 in forum: Edible Gardening
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    Cucumber glut - A solution at last.

    Our cuc plant is gaining on us and producing far more than we can use. I picked 5 on Monday and already had a couple in the kitchen. I didn't want...
    Thread by: Dave W, Aug 8, 2018, 18 replies, in forum: Edible Gardening
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    Will olive tree survive tap root being cut?

    We've an 11 year old potted olive grown from a cutting we took in Greece. I've repotted it twice and never noticed a tap root. Had lots of blossom...
    Post by: Dave W, Aug 7, 2018 in forum: Trees
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    Removed Ivy from tree

    You'll probably find the ivy starts to grow again at the base. If it does, spray it with glyphosate and if a thick 'branch' bore a hole and inject...
    Post by: Dave W, Aug 7, 2018 in forum: Trees
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