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COOLTRIKERCHICK

Thanks Davesave..

the silly thing about the courgettes, we dont really like them:rotfl: I grate them into spag ball etc to bulk it out, and to give some sort of veg/vitamin variety in our diet... They are soooooooooooooooo easy to grow, they are also good for greens etc for the chooks and hopefully later on the pigs...

I think every brussel sprout seedling i transplanted has come on in leaps and bounds,:eek::rotfl:Why do they put so many seeds in the packets, and why am i dull enough to sow them all ( with the intentions of selling some, but havent got enough room at mo to grow them on to the same size that are being sold around the place at mo)

Davesnave

COOLTRIKERCHICK wrote: »

Thanks Davesave..

the silly thing about the courgettes, we dont really like them:rotfl: I grate them into spag ball etc to bulk it out, and to give some sort of veg/vitamin variety in our diet... They are soooooooooooooooo easy to grow, they are also good for greens etc for the chooks and hopefully later on the pigs...

Don't you stir fry them? Bloomin' lovely, and go into nearly every stir fry we do in season.:D

The Blue Banana squash we grew last year are STILL OK, but their skins are so hard I have to hit them with a club hammer.:eek: They are going to the chooks now. I would do slices for them if I had a circular saw! :rotfl:

lostinrates

I love cougettes i make a middle eastern recipe with them, that is deeply satisfiying, rich and flavourful. And cut them lengthways to put on pizza with cheese but no tomato sauce.

But some thing i find people like if they do not like courgettes is often something that sounds really off putting, a courgette frittata. Soften onions till really soft and sweet on the hob, add grated apcourgette, havving squeezed off all the excess water, then, after that has had a moment to heat through add your beaten eggs to the pan, finish under grillif necessary, but i just cook throughon low heat on the hob. Cut into squares and eat at room temperTue or cool. Its delicious.

RAS

alfie_1 wrote: »

query ???.............what is the risk that the [my] bees could get cross and ie attack my dogs. iv not been worried but various people think it could happen .??:(

whats the verdict peeps

i guess i should ask ie...people aswell :rotfl:

alfie

It is remotely possible that bees could attack anything that gets in their flight path or damages their hive.

There were two incidents in the UK last year when a person and horses were stung and died. In both cases a hive or hives had been knocked over and the colony started to sting the subject that they believed had knocked over the hive.

Any chance that your dogs or horses could knock over the colony in your roof?

When siting a hive the basic requirement is that the flight path (to the south east usually) does not cross the track of people or animals. We recently refused to house a hive where the bees would have been flying at ground level across a public footpath. But they are fine in the apiary because we force them to fly to 2 metres before they fly across the plots. How high above ground is your colony? If they are above head height there is no problem.

If you decide that you need to remove the colony at any time, I would suggest that you keep humans and animals out of the way and preferably have keep the animals inside building with doors shut.

It is unlikely that the bees would be flying more that 10 metres from the hive even then. And the human removing them would be fully suited.

A couple of extra points:

There are problems in the lower USA with Africanised bees that are much more territorial. So people may have heard of horror stories from there. There are none in the UK.

When a bee stings, the smell of the venom alerts other bees to the location of the "attack". This allows them to target their defence and they are more likely to sting the attacker again. This can be halted by spraying the site of the sting with a smell that disrupts the bees senses. Bee keepers waft their smoker over themselves but room fresher would do.

Lotus-eater

Davesnave wrote: »

Don't you stir fry them? Bloomin' lovely, and go into nearly every stir fry we do in season.:D

The Blue Banana squash we grew last year are STILL OK, but their skins are so hard I have to hit them with a club hammer.:eek: They are going to the chooks now. I would do slices for them if I had a circular saw! :rotfl:

I've got given a plant of one of those Interesting to see how it gets on.

alfie_1

WOTS THIS ????

alfie_1

thankyou RAS....puts my mind at rest. they are about 12ft up and on a SE corner and they all go over a hedge to get anywhere
.. and the only draw back is that i have GOT to sort out a screen over my window as im cooking without it being open !!:eek: as my bedroom has a 12ft ceiling up into the roof and it just heats up ...

Davesnave

alfie_1 wrote: »

WOTS THIS ????

It looks like a variegated nepeta to me, but I don't think I've noticed the flower much. Maybe I just havent looked hard enough.

We have some, and they aren't flowering.

The flower shows it one of the scrophulariaceae family. Try saying that with false teeth!

alfie_1

Davesnave wrote: »

It looks like a variegated nepeta to me, but I don't think I've noticed the flower much. Maybe I just havent looked hard enough.

We have some, and they aren't flowering.

The flower shows it one of the scrophulariaceae family. Try saying that with false teeth!

:rotfl::rotfl::rotfl: how did i know youde know !!:D many thanks ,its been puzzling me as they are growing at a rate of knots ,must have been in the baskets from last year ? i cant remember buying/planting/seeing them before !! they have finished flowering now so unless they "go" again....?? they were early.
i thought the leaves smelt herby which fooled me as thats what ive been looking for in my books

COOLTRIKERCHICK

Hi All,

I got a flipping summer cold, thought it was hayfever when it first started.... turning into a nasty cough now:mad: plus this hot weather isnt a nice mix for trying to get some sleep in the nights..

got more bean poles for the new place yesturday 10 for £4 so got 3 bundles.....:D I will prob plant everything in the wrong position in the new garden, but hayho..... live and learn... they are all going to be temp positions this year anyway, Its just that i want something productive there this year in the fruit and veg department.... I know the hazel/cob nuts are very productive by the amount of squirrels that are there:mad: practically every flipping tree is a hazel/cob nut tree.... So i think there will be a race in the autumn between me and the tree rats for the nuts....:rotfl:

Trying to think of where to put my swee pea plants up in the new place too???/