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Post by Rosie on Feb 23, 2016 10:59:55 GMT
Thats amazing
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Post by roofgardener on Mar 5, 2016 10:55:22 GMT
Thank you Rosie. My next project is to turn an old wheelbarrow into a stunning planter. You're thinking of growing Stuns ?
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Post by daitheplant on Mar 24, 2016 20:34:28 GMT
At the new, new plot today. After doing a bit in my shed first off I then planted 2 rows of shallots (Golden Gourmet), 9 rows of onions (Stuttgarter Giant, Sturon, Turbo and Red Baron) and finally a row of broad beans (Bunyards Exhibition).
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Post by daisy on Mar 24, 2016 22:48:38 GMT
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Post by roofgardener on Mar 25, 2016 7:44:44 GMT
You plant more in a day than I do in a Month, daitheplant I'm guessing the Red Baron is ... well.. a red onion ? What attracted you to the other three varieties ?
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Post by daitheplant on Mar 25, 2016 21:10:38 GMT
Daisy. I took on the NEW plot 3 years ago. I took on the NEW, new plot, last year. Roofus, Stuttgarter Giant is a parent of Sturon which is a parent of Turbo. I have decided to play them off against each other.
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Post by daisy on Mar 25, 2016 23:35:47 GMT
Oops I thought it was new - oh well good luck anyway @diatheplant :-))
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Post by roofgardener on Mar 26, 2016 8:20:21 GMT
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Post by daitheplant on Mar 26, 2016 21:02:45 GMT
Roofus, isn`t it time YOU found yourself an allotment?
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Post by roofgardener on Mar 27, 2016 20:20:38 GMT
Meh.... “And now at last it comes. You will give me an allotment freely! In place of the RoofGardener you will set up a Horticulturalist. And I shall not use plantpots, but be bountifull and terrible as the Morning and the Night! Fruitfull as the Sea and the Sun and the Snow upon the Mountain! Dreadful as the Storm and the Lightning! Stronger than the compost of the earth. All shall love my courgettes....
....and despair!
(hands the One Ring back to daitheplant)
I pass the test. I will diminish, and go into the Polytunnel, and remain Roofgardener.”
(with apologies to J.R.R. Tolkein)
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Post by daitheplant on Mar 27, 2016 20:32:13 GMT
Daft sod.
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Post by roofgardener on Mar 27, 2016 20:38:24 GMT
OI... keep it civil daitheplant. That's MR Daft Sod, to you Anyway... back to business.... What is it that attracts you to those particular types of Onion ?
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Post by daitheplant on Mar 28, 2016 19:46:06 GMT
They are a good kitchen size plus they have a good, sweetish, onion flavour. They are very versatile. They are good raw in a salad, but are also good roasted. At the old new plot today, I potted on some Borage, potted up some donated onion sets, sowed a lot of seeds along with 60 Dwarf beans.
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Post by daitheplant on Apr 2, 2016 19:38:56 GMT
Had a sort out the the tunnel this morning. My 36 Fuchsia cuttings have started budding, so they were tidied up and transferred to the greenhouse. Alium Moly, Aquilegia, Sedum, House Leeks, Ranunculus and Chionoxis, were put on sale. I also potted on some Rhodohypoxis. Roofus, I forgot to mention it yesterday, but I have been given another FREE greenhouse.
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Post by daitheplant on Apr 3, 2016 18:57:15 GMT
At the allotments this morning I started on the first of the wheelbarrow planters.
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