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thriftwizard

Which papers, BSB?

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thriftwizard wrote: »

Which papers, BSB?

Well, the Sun yesterday, carried a particularly (IMO) gh0ulish article, but others had similar stories.

Mojisola

Did anyone catch The Food Chain - http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p059s1vb - What Will You Eat if the Apocalypse Comes?

mardatha

Not seen it but have saved that to listen to later, thanks Mojisola.

Karmacat

Afternoon all back again, or rather, my laptop is back again

I'm slogging, on and off, to clear weeds, though that means that the brambles are racing ahead again

The radio programme looks interesting - it doesn't look like its on iplayer, so its legal to listen to, even tho I don't have a licence, thats right, isn't it?

moneyistooshorttomention

It's a radio programme. The TV licence is for tv programmes. So - yes in a word.

GreyQueen

I have thrown my hat into the ring to have the part-allotment alongside my own, should it come up for re-letting this autumn. There are currently plenty of vacant plots on our site, so I don't feel like I'm being greedy.

My reasoning is to increase the growing land and thus improve crop rotations, especially of potatoes. There is also the wonderful bonus in, that if I get what I've asked for, I will have secured a very overgrown boundary on one flank of my lottie, one which creates a lot of extra work each year with maintaining the hebiage growing through and over the fence between us. Elimination that perpetual PITA will off-set the extra time required to maintain the extra (half) plot.

Anyway, allotments change hands in autumn in these here parts, so we'll see what happens. I'd give it a go for a year, if it ends up being too much, I'd surrender it in much better fettle than it is now.

jk0

Regarding crop rotation GQ, I thought this article from Jersey might interest you:

http://jerseyeveningpost.com/news/2017/08/06/theres-something-strange-growing-in-trinity/

GreyQueen

Very intersting, thank you, jk0.

To my embarrassment, it had never occured to me how an island like Jersey managed its potato crop rotations. I like the idea of Jersey tea.

Some pests and disease processes, such as clubroot (a disease of the brassica family) require the land thus infected to have a long rest from that particular species to eliminate it. I think it's supposed to be six years for clubroot (mebbe incorrect, I don't grow brassicas due to the dreadful pigeons who ravage the lotties).

I'm getting pretty excited about the idea. The current incumbent has been there for years, perfectly pleasant individual and ab-so-lute-ly flippin' useless as a gardener. Not having to look at that mess whilst gardening on my own plot, never mind dealing with the incoming brambles, nettles, bellbind, 4 ft tall grasses dropping thousands of seeds into my plot ...... grrrrr!

I already have to stop my rows about 60 cm shy of the boundary so I have room to get around and deal with the horrors coming over and through the fence.

Nargleblast

Greyqueen over on the Garden Fence thread Fuddle posted today about some hassle she had with her allotment neighbour. It seems the old gits on that allotment don't like women invading their cosy boys club. Needless to say, the Fencers Army rallied to the cause armed with hoes, spades, pitchforks and a few well chosen expletives.