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- Tue Mar 22, 2011 10:46 am
- Forum: Allotments, Veg Patches and Container Gardening
- Topic: Homemade sowing / potting mixes?
- Replies: 14
- Views: 4316
Re: Homemade sowing / potting mixes?
I've been spreading out leafmould, letting it grow a flush of weeds, weeding it, then doing the same again. So far so good, the weed problem is minimal. Quite lucky to have a large formal garden near me where I know the gardeners really well - they have a big pile of ten year old leaf mould and they...
- Mon Mar 21, 2011 5:55 pm
- Forum: Allotments, Veg Patches and Container Gardening
- Topic: Homemade sowing / potting mixes?
- Replies: 14
- Views: 4316
Re: Homemade sowing / potting mixes?
I've always had good experiences with leaf mould - straight and mixed, the older the better. Always worth having a supply of it.
- Mon Mar 21, 2011 5:45 pm
- Forum: Herbs and Vegetables
- Topic: Interesting & tasty alternative crops for this year's garden
- Replies: 20
- Views: 5012
Re: Interesting & tasty alternative crops for this year's ga
Pignuts are really tasty!! I think EU is fine, American things are okay too it just might take a long time and from what I hear they tend to riffle through just about everything. You only have to grow things once to be a British supplier (saving seed/tubers etc), I'm surprised more people don't comm...
- Mon Mar 21, 2011 3:08 pm
- Forum: Herbs and Vegetables
- Topic: Interesting & tasty alternative crops for this year's garden
- Replies: 20
- Views: 5012
Re: Interesting & tasty alternative crops for this year's ga
Thanks for the replies. Found some oca on ebay, hadn't thought of looking there. Going to have to weigh up if I buy quamash too, can get expensive these unusual vegetables.
- Mon Mar 21, 2011 2:06 pm
- Forum: Herbs and Vegetables
- Topic: Interesting & tasty alternative crops for this year's garden
- Replies: 20
- Views: 5012
Re: Interesting & tasty alternative crops for this year's ga
Hello everyone. I'm keen on growing some quamash too if anyone finds them, not come across them before they sound like a fun thing to grow. Also yakon and oca would be interesting, I've drawn a blank trying to find tubers on the internet. I had some success with Chinese Yams last year, http://en.wik...
- Sat Mar 19, 2011 9:14 am
- Forum: Author-ish Photographer- ish - Write or take photos for Selfsufficientish
- Topic: Apple Tree Grafting - A Guide
- Replies: 2
- Views: 25537
Re: Apple Tree Grafting - A Guide
Casper - I meant to say something at the time you posted this but I got side tracked. This is an absolutely fantastic post, really helpful and well presented, if you don't mind I'll put it up on the main site this Autumn.
- Sat Mar 19, 2011 9:04 am
- Forum: The ish Local - (Chat)
- Topic: what to do with a burnout?
- Replies: 30
- Views: 8059
Re: what to do with a burnout?
Boboff - I should have put a wink after my comment, sorry if you were offended, I was trying to make light of the situation.
- Thu Mar 17, 2011 7:02 pm
- Forum: Herbs and Vegetables
- Topic: Pak Choi is up!
- Replies: 25
- Views: 7754
Re: Pak Choi is up!
Hurray!!!
- Thu Mar 17, 2011 4:54 pm
- Forum: The ish Local - (Chat)
- Topic: what to do with a burnout?
- Replies: 30
- Views: 8059
Re: what to do with a burnout?
Berti - Believe me, what ever you are going through will get better. Life has a tendency of dealing us crap when we don't need it (do we ever need it?). I've had my fair share and have to be philosophical during those times, a belief it will get better and it ALWAYS does, don't loose perspective. If...
- Thu Dec 23, 2010 9:19 pm
- Forum: Site Information and Announcements
- Topic: Selfsufficientish Bible sells 12 000 copies
- Replies: 27
- Views: 17101
Re: Selfsufficientish Bible sells 12 000 copies
Hello Greenoreise - I don't know who stocks it in Ireland, Andy seems to know that kind of thing. You could see if your local Bookshop will order it in, mine does with most things.
- Thu Dec 23, 2010 12:24 pm
- Forum: Site Information and Announcements
- Topic: Selfsufficientish Bible sells 12 000 copies
- Replies: 27
- Views: 17101
Re: Selfsufficientish Bible sells 12 000 copies

Happy Christmas.
- Mon Dec 20, 2010 6:20 pm
- Forum: Site Information and Announcements
- Topic: Selfsufficientish Bible sells 12 000 copies
- Replies: 27
- Views: 17101
Re: Selfsufficientish Bible sells 12 000 copies
Hello Mike - We're told the sales figures whenever we ask for them. I think it's nearer 13000 copies now. I'll ask again after Christmas. Thanks to everyone who realised there are two names on the front cover ;)
- Fri Sep 24, 2010 12:24 pm
- Forum: Herbs and Vegetables
- Topic: Kiwano
- Replies: 4
- Views: 1297
Re: Kiwano
This seems to smell okay but taste foul. Are you thinking of a durian fruit, they smell like rotten cheese.
- Fri Sep 24, 2010 6:34 am
- Forum: Herbs and Vegetables
- Topic: Kiwano
- Replies: 4
- Views: 1297
Re: Kiwano
Shall I take that as a no?
- Sat Sep 11, 2010 4:13 pm
- Forum: Wild Foods and Foraging
- Topic: walnut tree?
- Replies: 17
- Views: 37497
Re: walnut tree?
Someone said they were ready here too, I'm sure it was a couple of weeks later than this last year. Will take a look when I get a chance to escape my desk