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Started this discussion. Last reply by Neil J Oct. 19, 2009.
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charlie .. oh yes, I can understand the excitement!! I have just finished building my shed (3 odd days in the making) I am chuffed to bits :O) It was such a major decision to do!! I ended up buying my metal shed online www.asgardsss.co.uk as previou…
Hi neil thanks for replying i had to ask somebody just in case i poison myself..chas
---------Hi Charlie,
These are known as rogues in the trade, even the commercial growers get them in their fields. Yes they will produce quite edible spuds after a while. I have had some good ones come up in my rough compost heap in the past and th…
Hi people i have noticed that i got potatoes growing from last year can these be eaten can anybody let me know ..thanks chas
Hi Charley, Frost damage can be really really localised. One part of our plot can get frost damage and other parts completely escape it. So some plants getting hit and some missing it is still consistent with frost damage.
But if it's not frost dam…
Hi paddy thanks for the reply its been cold but not frosty and i have put compost around the stems.I planted about 20 and only half of them are brown leaved and the rest are fine .chas
My money's on frost given the weather this week. My 200 odd potatoes look like somebody has taken a flamethrower to them.
Have you had any frost recently?
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- At 7:02pm on September 5, 2008,
Lady North said… - Hi Charlie: Darn! We were in Vancouver at the time you visited. We have just moved back to the Island after 25 years on the Mainland. (husband and I both born Islanders- so nice to get home!) The town you are thinking of is called Tsawassen - has a ferry terminal to the Island and goes to Victoria - which is about 45 minutes north of where we live and the other town close to Pt Roberts - could it have been White Rock? or Surrey.
waving from Quail Hill - LN
- At 7:17pm on September 4, 2008,
Lady North said…
Hi Charlie: hello from t'other side of the world! I live in the Cowichan Valley, southern tip of Vancouver Island and our climate has been classed 'mediterranean' - however our weather is usually your weather - in other words..Summer? what Summer? I have three terraces all UPhill, little soil, many rocks (glacial moraine) which had been neglected for 20 years. So it is compost compost - I have two going at the moment, one black box and the other an envirocycler (mounted on rollers and you rock it back and forth). I have been pleased with baby spanish olive trees I planted last summer- they are fruiting (thought they are the size of pencil erasers) and I was very glad I had boxed them up for the winter as we had very unusual low temps -12C. That's all from Quail Hill - waving LN
- At 3:53pm on September 1, 2008,
Ian said… - Hi Charlie,
Thanks for your message. I saw from Sarah's page that your house is up near Mansle. I'm a couple of hours drive further south in Perigord, near issigeac.
Tell us all about your garden. There is a link on my page to my blog where you can find out what I'm doing..
All the best
Ian
- At 2:56pm on September 1, 2008,
Sarah said… - If that's near Angouleme I looked at a house near Mansle about 18 months ago, but ended up buying somewhere about an hour further south - I love it here. I have taken on quite a lot with renovation and big garden, 2 other gardens and I have started a veg box scheme. It keeps me busy and I make time for all the other stuff too.
- At 2:44pm on September 1, 2008,
Sarah said…
- Hi Charlie
Thanks for your message and for inviting me to be your friend. Where is your house in France? Do you get to spend much time there? How did you get into gardening? Have you been gardening for a long time or are you a novice like me?
I hope you have had a good summer in the garden, I certainly have. Although some things have been a bit later than I would have expected. My tomatoes are only just ripening and peppers and aubergines just about big enough to get excited about. How about your garden?
Sarah
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