the daydream fund challenge thread

lostinrates

Lotus, I have never seen them! They look great for buildings/garden/house....I think I might invest in a few, but the problem for the horses etc is the things out in the field. I could try a trap near the main areas they stand....one horse in particular is having a terrible time.

Lotus-eater

lostinrates wrote: »

Lotus, I have never seen them! They look great for buildings/garden/house....I think I might invest in a few, but the problem for the horses etc is the things out in the field. I could try a trap near the main areas they stand....one horse in particular is having a terrible time.

Oh right, yes sorry I hadn't thought about that.
I did mean to say horsey type people, as usual my fingers can't go as fast as my brain.

How about stapling some yellow fly sticky traps to their ears, would that help?
You certainly would be able to see them better in low light.

Lotus-eater

We have this huge crop of flies, they were last week, they go mad and you get them everywhere, usually lasts a couple of weeks then they are gone till next year. Very odd. Every single year since we've been here.
I reckon it's something to do with the septic tank, it's old and has more holes in it than a leaky sieve. But why just the short time, I don't know.

lostinrates

Flippen' 'eck. I just went out side and notice that the verges which were just sweetly winter ragged last week are now waist high with cow parsley and knee deep in dandelions.

rhiwfield

RAS wrote: »

Please rhiwfield. I really wanted to grow Winston because of its keeping qualities but was put off by the tip-bearing note in Crawford.

The trouble is the absence of tip-bearing notes in other books is no help, because they fail to list other varieties that I know from personal experience are tip-bearers.

RAS, some apples and pears:

Winston
Winston close up
Conference Pear front and apple Saturn
Cox
Cobra and Fiesta in wild area

lostinrates

rhiwfield.....its so neat and beautiful!

lostinrates

grrr.. just checked my veg seedlings and two of my tomotoes have rotted stems. And a butternut has died. Grrrr.

ukmaggie45

lostinrates wrote: »

grrr.. just checked my veg seedlings and two of my tomotoes have rotted stems. And a butternut has died. Grrrr.

There are always some casualties! But you're well ahead of me anyway - my seeds are still waiting to be planted. We should be at the garden now really, but it's so cold and cloudy here neither of us can be bothered. Prob a good idea to have a day of doing not a lot anyway as we're neither of us fully over the virus we've had. Just hope the sun shines tomorrow!

Lotus-eater

lostinrates wrote: »

grrr.. just checked my veg seedlings and two of my tomotoes have rotted stems. And a butternut has died. Grrrr.

I'm sure you have spare tomatoes.

Bit early for squash, no?

Winged_one

I need to do some pricking out at the weekend as well. I have some tomatoes that I sowed 2 to a pot, as the seeds were old, and both came up. And the same with some chillis. The calabrese have also come up, so I might move those into seperate modulse as well.

And I want to sow my mange tout against the fence. As there is now an astonishing amount of growth happening. I am eating my own salad leaves for lunch today (first of the year), and should have the first radish within the next 10 days or so.

I never thought to ask on the greenfingers board, as all those I am aware of living "up north" are all on the OS board. But my sis's DP is about to get possession of an allotment (used to be plots and was grassed over years ago, being rotorvated for them I believe) this or next weekend. They are living near to Inverness. Which is a lot further north than me here. As the only other veg growing person around (and only other one with a plot at all that they know), I am gearing up both for questions, and putting some seeds from my own stash into a parcel I am sending anyway this weekend (Nephew's borthday coming up). And I was thinking of organising a few plants to be delivered direct to help them get started this year (I know it's expensive, but they are only starting, and I can't physically give them any seedlings from here).

So any ideas about what would be good to grow there? Types of veg, and varieties too, and any tips for getting the best from what I understand is a much shorter growing season?

Ta muchly!!