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Posted: 24 January 2008 04:16 pm | 16th Post |
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Yes garlic will be fine, most people plant before xmas if they can it's the cold snap that makes them split into cloves and not just stay as one bulb or so I've been told.
Carrots just need sowing in their positions outside from march onwards, don't manure that part of your veg plot else they will make funny ones like you used to see on "thats life"
Lettuce are easy again from about march onwards I use a salad leaf mix packet of seeds these days so we get 3-4 different types of lettuce in one go, you can just take the outer few leaves off loads of them to make a salad and leave the rest to grow again. It's whats known as cut and come again.
Good luck with the lambing, sounds fun !
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Villageways
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Posted: 24 January 2008 04:25 pm | 17th Post |
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Hi Shadowland
Here are some ideas for container growing:
http://www.dobies.co.uk/GrowingGuides.htm
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Posted: 24 January 2008 08:03 pm | 18th Post |
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| Hi Shadowland, - I grew tumbling tom tomatoes ( yellow & red) and strawberries in hanging baskets last year -( i decided anything in the garden had to be edible/usable in some way but i also wanted some colour ) and they did really well and looked fantastic too - also good idea if you dont have much veggie ground - they did much better than what i put in the ground last year as well ....
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shadowland
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Posted: 24 January 2008 09:13 pm | 19th Post |
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Thanks everyone, can't wait to get started now. I will have pots and grow bags everywhere at this rate! There is going to be herbs in window boxes as well.
 
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Richyrich
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Posted: 24 January 2008 09:17 pm | 20th Post |
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| I love seeing plants and pots everywhere, you'll need some flowers too, sweetpeas to climb up a teepee of canes, lovely scent by the back door, undersow with night scented stock for the sweetest scent in the evening, purfec' as they say.
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shadowland
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Posted: 24 January 2008 09:26 pm | 21st Post |
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| Oh stop it! at this rate i won't have time to go to work! Where is that sunshine??
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Richyrich
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Posted: 24 January 2008 09:30 pm | 22nd Post |
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shadowland wrote: Oh stop it! at this rate i won't have time to go to work! Where is that sunshine??
Corr tell me about it, got soaked at work this morning why does it always rain at 5.30 in the bloomin morning then stops at 6.30 when I go back inside ?
That and I've just got a new greenhouse to put up and have turned the garden into a builders yard. 
Earllier in the week thought I may need to turn it into a boat house lol
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Posted: 31 January 2008 12:29 am | 23rd Post |
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| chickens and pigs and norfolk bronze and black turkeys thats what we keep at the moment. Have had sheep and goats and ducks and ............but I love my pigs and chickens best. Bye from me in sunny Norfolk. Wish I coild get some pics on but they are all too big and need to resize them.
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Posted: 31 January 2008 08:51 pm | 24th Post |
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wendy wrote: Wish I coild get some pics on but they are all too big and need to resize them.
I think I remember Anita saying the new software on here auto resize's if it's too large when you post them
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Posted: 31 January 2008 08:54 pm | 25th Post |
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Yes, that's right - if they are wider than 600 pixels the system will automatically resize them. If they are bigger than 1 meg, they won't be accepted, but you can always e-mail me at anita.lechmar@villageways.co.uk and I'll sort them out for you.
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Posted: 2 February 2008 08:55 am | 26th Post |
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| Thanks for that information. I will have another go and good work with the site anita its looking good, do you ever sleep!!
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Posted: 2 February 2008 09:14 am | 27th Post |
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