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dying to get started for 2011 !

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  • [Deleted User]
    [Deleted User] Posts: 12,492 Forumite
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    me too. I am sitting here on the dullest of days with my notebook at hand as well as my 3 books. My new tools came today and all my seeds were bought at a garden show last autumn and have been sitting in the fridge in plastic boxes and now they`re in the shed. I have been thinking about my planting plan so that I won`t have to think too hard later and I am just about to decide what potatoes to order. I just have to keep saying to myself `go easy on the quantity` of everything that I plant or I end up with too much

    I am thinking about how to protect my carrots from fly and my leeks from leek moth. My cabbages would have been decimated by caterpillars and then pigeons if I hadn`t used mesh so my plot is going to be a sea of white, it makes it harder to weed but at least it gives the veg a fighting chance
  • [Deleted User]
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    I second that about land cress and also my perpetual spinach is still going strong after the snow
  • mardatha
    mardatha Posts: 15,612 Forumite
    What the utter hell are Leek Moths ? O god !!
  • RAS
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    mardatha wrote: »
    What the utter hell are Leek Moths ? O god !!

    Well, in all the years (nearly half a century), I have never encountered one.

    So ignore. Probably a problem for commercial growers
    If you've have not made a mistake, you've made nothing
  • [Deleted User]
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    edited 5 January 2011 at 5:09PM
    You wish RAS!!! the blighters are moving north. Every single leek on everyone`s allotment was decimated where I live. They look as though they are growing nicely then wham the moths get in and their grubs eat the insides of the leeks so they are ruined

    I can`t do without leekes and so they are going under cover this year.

    omg I just read that they are also attacking onions and garlic. That does it then I am getting all my onions under environmesh by the middle of april. They look good now but for how long?
  • Farway
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    RAS wrote: »
    Well, in all the years (nearly half a century), I have never encountered one.

    So ignore. Probably a problem for commercial growers

    Unfortunately not, it is a growing problem, more in the South with increasing warmer summers /climate change etc

    Bit like Lily beetle, unheard of years ago, now widespread
    When an eel bites your bum, that's a Moray
  • RAS
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    mardatha is in borders scotland, so she could be OK for a bit yet?
    If you've have not made a mistake, you've made nothing
  • kazire
    kazire Posts: 472 Forumite
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    i cant wait to get started either with growing this year!
  • mardatha
    mardatha Posts: 15,612 Forumite
    I'm on top of a hill in the borders. Hopefully the wee sods dont like heights !!
  • Rummer
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    I lost all my brassicas two years ago to caterpillars, I was devastated.
    Taking responsibility one penny at a time!
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