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Post by Cherry on Jun 6, 2011 6:33:36 GMT
My husband was shown some veggies a man in the next village is growing. He had caterpillars on his cabbages and sprayed them with a bottle handmarked 'poison' which an allotment holder gave him. He doesn't know what is in this poison, but there must be an organic way. After all, we eat these and he will give me one.
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Post by steve on Jun 6, 2011 11:43:28 GMT
Too much info! It can be either rhubarb leaves or nicotene based, or some other recipe?...both toxic to us as well as caterpillars, I would'nt eat anything sprayed with it but that's just me
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Post by Cherry on Jun 6, 2011 13:32:01 GMT
I thought you might tell me how he should get rid of the caterpillars. You have yours under a net. Is that the reason?
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Post by steve on Jun 6, 2011 16:41:48 GMT
The net was mainly for Wood pigeons which decimate brassicas in our area but it is fine enough for cabbage whites too
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Post by Cherry on Jun 6, 2011 17:01:59 GMT
Thanks Steve. A lad you would like and he is the same age as my older son. He works nights and does pigs and goats as well. I give him what hay is left from the baler for the goats.
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Post by Cherry on Jun 6, 2011 18:33:35 GMT
I think I am getting Rose Currants, Gloire de Sablon, on Thursday evening so I must get somewhere ready for them. I had never heard of them, but they are going out for Suttons.
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Post by Tel on Jun 7, 2011 18:21:19 GMT
After giving the dahlias priority, i thought i had better turn my attention back to the veg beds. Tomatoes are starting to grow away now.
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Post by wildlifefriendly on Jun 7, 2011 18:30:31 GMT
Wow Tel, that is a lot of tomato plants Your veg beds are looking good. I might try some alcathene pipe to put netting over.
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Post by Tel on Jun 7, 2011 18:38:24 GMT
Wow Tel, that is a lot of tomato plants Your veg beds are looking good. I might try some alcathene pipe to put netting over. The price of the piping was very reasonable, i found it on the new allotment, cut it into 4 and pushed each end into the ground by about 1ft.
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Post by steve on Jun 7, 2011 18:41:15 GMT
Very healthy looking Toms! big dark green leaves
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Post by esther on Jun 7, 2011 19:31:47 GMT
Everything is looking great Tel ;D
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Post by Cherry on Jun 7, 2011 20:23:20 GMT
Tel my tomatoes go into a pot like yours, then that is bottomless and runs into growbags, shortened to take two tomatoes. What is that stuff in the bottom of the pots and do you think this is a better way?
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Post by Tel on Jun 8, 2011 4:08:47 GMT
Tel my tomatoes go into a pot like yours, then that is bottomless and runs into growbags, shortened to take two tomatoes. What is that stuff in the bottom of the pots and do you think this is a better way? The stuff in the bottom of the pots is large gravel, the person who had the greenhouse before me always grew his toms that way, he watered into the gravel and fed the toms in the bucket, it worked very well for him, so i followed on when he retired from gardening. Just like anything else in gardening Cherry, we all have our own way of doing things, if it works the way we do it , why change it.
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Post by grindle on Jun 8, 2011 4:51:06 GMT
it's all looking good Tel
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Post by merlin on Jun 8, 2011 6:19:40 GMT
A sort of Aqua-ring-culture Tel looks good to me. I like the white chair but with not a weed in sight, when do you get time to sit in it?
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