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Davesnave

lostinrates wrote: »

I'm after crabapples I can set in hedges, anyone know if any of the cheap places have any crabs? Or anything else I can put in the hedgerows for hedgerow bounty?:D

What about:
http://www.buckinghamnurseries.co.uk/acatalog/product_10173.html

Cheap as chips. They do the named ones too, but much pricier. See main list here:

http://www.buckingham-nurseries.co.uk/acatalog/indexAllCom.html

I'm doing hazelnuts, but if you have squirrels to any great degree that might not work. We have none in the garden.

Davesnave

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lostinrates

Davesnave wrote: »

What about:
http://www.buckinghamnurseries.co.uk/acatalog/product_10173.html

Cheap as chips. They do the named ones too, but much pricier. See main list here:

http://www.buckingham-nurseries.co.uk/acatalog/indexAllCom.html

I'm doing hazelnuts, but if you have squirrels to any great degree that might not work. We have none in the garden.

I can't believe those prices! Yep, that'll do. We want hazels too. we have one that fruited (it had six nuts) so must have others we haven't seen to have pollinated it. Think we might be less than purists and put some cobnuts in for decent size nuts.

Davesnave

We inherited filbert type nuts here, like Cosford Cob, and the purple one too, so I've been removing suckers from those and growing them on. I'll put some in the hedges when they're large enough root-wise, but I do expect to lose some to the squirrels there.

I'm getting my elms from Buckingham Nurseries. Had some dealings with them before at school, when landscaping there.

rhiwfield

Buckingham Nurseries supplied most of my hedging (hawthorn, beech, privet, lavender) as well as most of the fruit trees. They introduced me to rootgrow as well. I rate them.

Been dressing the 2011 potato beds with the municipal compost and using last years spent container compost to top up the compost heaps. As you might expect had one container that was just full of large, plump, vine weevil larvae. Hate the bu****s so tipped the lot into the hens run.

Will cut down the amount of containers planted this year to avoid too much watering.

Lots of things budding atm, a few leaves on the blueberries and lungwort in flower in the wild bed.

rozeepozee

Hi, I don't know if anyone here has horses but I noticed that there was some cheap equestrian gear in Lidl this morning. Fly covers and saddle equipment, Just thought I'd mention it.

lostinrates

rozeepozee wrote: »

Hi, I don't know if anyone here has horses but I noticed that there was some cheap equestrian gear in Lidl this morning. Fly covers and saddle equipment, Just thought I'd mention it.

Thanks. I might pop and ave a look tomorrow. ATM the frustration is that most of my brushes have gone walkabout. :mad: Horses are filthy. Can't wait till its warm enough to give'em a bath!

alfie_1

lostinrates wrote: »

Urgh, been digging and digging the muck heap today. weirdly its a job I really like, just, I'm not as strong as I used to be and its so unstable underfoot ATM. The chickens were all in there, and I reminded them what happened to Strawberry when she got stuck in quagmire poop, but they ignored me, of course. Speaking of strawberry, I saw her emerge furtively from the hay barn this morning and look cross that I saw her and found a clutch of 14 eggs....meanwhile I've got a broody hybrid.

Alfie, do you still want chickens....do they have to be pure breeds, or would some hybrids do?

yes im still after some chooks, anything, im not fussed as long as feed can go in one end and EGGS come out the other.....

alfie_1

lostinrates wrote: »

I'm reminding myself all the time it was a dry autumn and we'll be grateful for tis is we have another dry summer. I still have this water to empty, under contract and no where to put it yet, so I'm getting rather edgy now!

I'm after crabapples I can set in hedges, anyone know if any of the cheap places have any crabs? Or anything else I can put in the hedgerows for hedgerow bounty?:D

may or may not be able to help with the crab apples.... i have/had a trade acc with a BIG nursery that sells/sold from exotic to humble. i have been told on the grapevine theyve gone to liquidation so may be able to get some "backdoor" things before they shut shop. im amazed as they supplied the whole of england superstores and nurseries??? absolute bargains at trade price anyway so will be sad to see them go if its true...i will do a drive past tomorrow !!

lostinrates

alfie_1 wrote: »

yes im still after some chooks, anything, im not fussed as long as feed can go in one end and EGGS come out the other.....

right then, I'll leave some under the broody and pop some more on to cook in the incubator at the weekend.:)

Let me know about crab apples!