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I don't post on this thread but do poke my nose in now and again. I'm another who wants to leap to POLL's defence. You said nothing wrong on that post, nothing was said in malice it was just what we have always thought and needed to be said. The constant poor me attitude, in her various guises over the years, gets wearing. Don't you dare mention leaving us again/ You have offered endless help and advice over the years, to lots of people. ()Me included in the dark days of Bob's illness and treatment at the Royal Liverpool). Take care lovely lady and don't let this get you down x"If you dream alone it will remain just a dream. But if we all dream together it will become reality"22
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monnagran said:
I don't usually post on this thread, but sometimes the temptation to smash someone in the face overcomes me.
I still maintain that she is not a real person, that someone has invented her as a joke.Solar Suntellite 250 x16 4kW Afore 3600TL dual 2KW E 2KW W no shade, DN15 March 14
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Shropshire Lass, I had a packet of Rainbow Lights chard in about 2009, which bolted when I was on holiday and left the lottie to its own devices. Ever since then, I have had Feral Chard 80% silver, 20% ruby, grow at random alll over the allotments. I garden around it and several lottie pals have a long-standing instruction to help themselves to whatever they like.
A self-sown colony of Feral Chard near the top of the allotment is seeding, but there are also baby seedling chards in other places. Sparrows seem to like feeding on the seeds. It really is a very useful veg for 356 days of the year.Butternut squash........... hmm. Everytime I've seen these for sale, they've been F1 hybrids. I've got a dozen growing from seeds saved from a grocery BNS. Due to the hybridisation issue, I am expecting something not true-to-type. If it's true enough to be palatable, I have the rest of the saved seeds in a tupperware in the fridge. One BNS produces about 100+ seeds, it can only be the hybridisation issue causing the ridiculous expense.Talking to gardening pals, the inability to access shops easily has caused them to be creative in their sowing, including sowing long-OOD seed with some successes. I'm trying to raise tomatoes from seed saved from shop tomatoes. They're just babies thus far, but they germinated like crazy. As did the BNA - 12 out of 12.Every increased possession loads us with a new weariness.
John Ruskin
Veni, vidi, eradici
(I came, I saw, I kondo'd)
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GreyQueen said:... including sowing long-OOD seed ...I think our best under that heading was some Golden Bantam sweetcorn seed. We don't like sweetcorn that just tastes of sweet, and were assured that if we wanted sweetcorn that tasted of proper sweetcorn we needed to grow Golden Bantam. So we ordered some. From a specialist supplier in ... Baltimore, USA. That was 1992, and the last of it cropped in 2008.We couldn't afford to get any more from the US, so we got a packet of "Golden Bantam" from a UK supplier a few years ago, and it was nothing like ...We're all doomed14
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Greyqueen I remember your previous mentions of feral chard, although I am not a vegetable grower as we normally spend lots of time away from home including a 4 week stretch April/May (causes enough havoc in my herbaceous borders). I managed to obtain some rainbow chard seeds, germinated well, but only tiny. I hope to find some of them spaces between the perennials and have some feral plants in the future.The best thing about the future is that it comes one day at a time. (Abraham Lincoln)14
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maddiemay said:Greyqueen I remember your previous mentions of feral chard, although I am not a vegetable grower as we normally spend lots of time away from home including a 4 week stretch April/May (causes enough havoc in my herbaceous borders). I managed to obtain some rainbow chard seeds, germinated well, but only tiny. I hope to find some of them spaces between the perennials and have some feral plants in the future.
Last year, I actually bought another pkt of Rainbow Lights. I was thinking of adding to the variety going feral on the lotties, particularly as the ruby chards are becoming fewer. They germinated poorly and ended the season about 6 inches tall! Meanwhile, all over the lotties, were feral chards growing like triffids. Go figure.
Every increased possession loads us with a new weariness.
John Ruskin
Veni, vidi, eradici
(I came, I saw, I kondo'd)
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VJsmum said:I wouldn't want anyone to leave. there've been loads of spats on this thread over the years - we generally get through it and there is always the 'ignore' button. Far too nosey myself to use it, but it is there...
Anyways - no one answered my question of ages ago, can i pickle my radishes (this is not a euphemism...).
Sorry, just catching up on thread. Glad pollyanna has decided to stay. As for the other poster, with multiple usernames, I'm pretty certain their intent is to upset and disrupt, so I've stopped responding.February wins: Theatre tickets18 -
I have been able to get a bottle of hand sanitizer. Not been able to buy any before and there was a bottle on the shelf when I did my last shop. My question is how do you use the gel when you need to pull open the top and squeeze the bottle with contaminated hands and then need to handle the bottle with your clean hands. Do you keep something else in your car/bag to decontaminate the hand sanitizer bottle. Sorry stupid question I know which must have an easy solution.
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GreyQueen what in your opinion is theee one most useful green thing you grow in the allotment? I mean useful as in versatility in cooking.
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littlemoney said:My question is how do you use the gel when you need to pull open the top and squeeze the bottle with contaminated hands and then need to handle the bottle with your clean hands. Do you keep something else in your car/bag to decontaminate the hand sanitizer bottle. Sorry stupid question I know which must have an easy solution.
A farming friend who designed the spring latch to control calf feed escaping the sack said designing it was easy after he'd shovelled up several thousand pounds worth of calf food. Can you find a one handed operating container & decant? (Some waste & much frustration likely but any dispenser that works with gravity is an ally.)13
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