jok
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Anywhere near Grantown on Spey by any chance??
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Three of us. Ferret. Digging spade. Rabbit bury looking absolutely brilliant. Nothing out of the ordinary. 7 brocks ? Would not have believed it in a milion.
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Would be some travelling my girl.
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Where are you in relation to South Staffs. Tamworth would be good
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Blinking eck Scott. What do you you do? 2 and 3 hole buries about a foot deep where you can just stick your arm in and retrieve the ferret oh and the rabbit.?? These buries might be 30 or 40 holes with the chance of a fox or similar in there. On a high bank on the side of a railway or whatever. What do you mean you don't see the need to dig. Sheltered life pal.LOL
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FAO Hily. Dave. Did you follow up on my post. Supermarkets are willing to get rid of vegetables and fruit. Saves them skipping it. I've fed for years admittedly alongside barley sweepings. Never put spuds in though as the sour the water. All right to feed on the fringes I guess.
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The recipe I follow is from Mrs Beeton's everyday cookery. The strange difference is that at no point is there any mention of cooking the vegetable mix at all. Vinegar with the chillis boiled for 3 minutes. Mixing part of the vinegar with the mustard tumeric etc, jarring whilst warm, but ain't no cooking. Works good for me though and have the benefit of growing all the ingredients. Happy days.
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Hazel it certainly is not. Damson is by far more likely Certainly the leaves suggest this.
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Bananas Dave. All day long. Local supermarkets and shelf life. Works a treat mate.
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You'll find stranger things that them in this part of the world me lad. Don't go out after dark
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That was a shit response. If you know the locale let me know and meet for a beer. we are all farmers round here in one form or another.
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Swinnertons by any cnance
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Warton Allotments Nr Atherstone Warks.
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This is going to sound bad , big headed and believe me totally out of the park. BUT. Just been asked to the award ceremony for best allotment in North Warwickshire. I had best newcomer last year so all in all it's looking promising. HOWEVER. The deal is for the whole of our allotment including individual plots, management, tidiness, produce etc etc. We do have an amazing bunch of people who pull together over everything. In the end everyone gets the benefit and the local community , the older people and the harvest festival all look forward to our contribution.
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To Terryd. Yep, The sense of the old timers kicks in. Not trying to be patronising in any way but why grow scaffold planks and slabs The ground is for growing and feeding the family and friends, I don't mind walking between rows collecting produce as all you have to do is pull a fork behind you once in a while. My next door neighbour has grown more clover than veg and when I asked him to collect the raspberries over my garden he just grunted. I feed my family.
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Mr T. Here we go again. First of all you are in the enviable position of choice. I personally go for the traditional way, meaning rows down the length of the allotment. Very easy to remember if you want crop rotation. The thing I hate above all else is gardeners who seem to want to grow more scaffold boards and 2 x 2 slabs. The ground is for for growing for your family and friends so why not just have a walkway between veg plots. I know it makes the job look nice by the way but slabs?? anyhow that's my only pet hate. Back to your allotment in general. You obviously are getting it cleared an
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Walshie. Get your hands on a good Knights Templar book, Sit yourself down comfy like and learn a bit. I think you'll be surprised.
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Back to August and things were looking good. Well, I know it's early but just had to check the parsnips. Sound, clean and sweet as a nut. Most surprised.
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two things wrong with that. Price and Merseyside.
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You guys just know that I would respond. Well done getting a good looking plot. Listen to all the advice, don't go down the horse muck route stick with well rotted cow muck, don't set too early, (if you read my posts that will be explained), if it looks like a weed it is, get it out because veg and weeds need the same moisture. Get your crop in as it matures. (most people plant about 20 of everything at the same time and obviously it can't be eaten. ) Good luck and look forward to hearing of your results. (As an old hand I've just had it stuffed up me) I listened to the local gurus who sai
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Never had that kind of problem. A gaff. aluminium tray and torch seems to work.
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Well. Found three today and as luck would have it, my mate dropped me off 2 greylags and a canada. Some onions from the garden few spuds and I reckon pies are in order. We will see.
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Took some Puff Balls into the pub today and had some very strange looks.
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Can't beat coming home from the allotment with a basket of beans , sitting down with a bottle of wine, a sharp knife, bowl and watching the rugby or whatever. Why do you need a machine?
