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The highs and lows of growing your own dinner 2015

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  • wishus
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    I love it too, I saw my resident toad yesterday, not really sure how many I have but they/him are always hiding in the cool at the base of the garden wall. So good to see the good wildlife. My new neighbours at the side and the back have cats they live in my garden. I am SO fed up with it. One got a wetting from the hose and hasn't been back but the two others are here all the time. They spoil plants by lying on them and of course cat pooh is everywhere. Is there anything non-harming I can do?
    Have you tried tiger/lion pellets? You can buy them in hardware stores and pop them round your borders. It smells to them like a jolly big cat, so they stay the heck away.
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  • Dizzy_Ditzy
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    I've been to both plots today, mostly to have a good water, but I left one today with a carrier bag full of broad beans and potatoes! :j :j

    One of the long time allotmenters saw me rooting around in the potatoes and we were just chatting, as you do, and he said that my potatoes looked really good and was even more surprised when he saw the size of some of them! I've a couple that are the size of my fist :j :j

    The leeks are coming home with me tomorrow. They'll be making space for beetroot and carrots. The onions and garlic will be ready in a couple of weeks, although I'm already disappointed in the garlic as the stems are matchstick thin and it looks like the cloves haven't seperated :(

    I need to get thinking on what I'm going to plant there next - need to start going through the seed box :)
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  • Ken68
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    Put out marrows, pumpkins, courgettes. Beetroot and swedes up.
    Will dig up spinach and sow a fresh row for salads mainly.
    Made up a sun blind for the greenhouse. It's all go.
  • Dizzy_Ditzy
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    Sparkling wine yeast on order in readiness for all the gooseberries on the allotment :beer:

    Don't you all love this time of year? :D
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  • unrecordings
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    Now winemaking is definitely on my list (but probably one hobby too far)

    Planted Oca today in place of the old broccoli and generally weeded & cut things back. Poor old toad died sometime yesterday

    In terms of cats - i use short canes planted around all the inviting areas, also seems to work for pigeons

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  • Jazee
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    I didn't wee on the plants today, didn't yesterday either! Today each meal has contained something from the garden - strawberries, salad stuff, broad beans and parsley.

    Idiot alert again - I have 92 celery plants. Have put a paddling pool into use as a temp veg patch.
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  • Dizzy_Ditzy
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    I made wine from plums and blackberries last year :beer:
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  • The_Only_Girl
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    Is it okay to eat leeks if it has started to bolt?
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  • Dizzy_Ditzy
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    Is it okay to eat leeks if it has started to bolt?

    I asked this question today and was told yes. She said they were great to freeze too
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  • I asked this question today and was told yes. She said they were great to freeze too


    Thank so much.
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