A catalogue of trial, error and advice

-taff

If you have an old fashioned GC locally, you could get some blood, fish and bone, but beware, the foxes love it, so keep it firmly stored somewhere. You can also make your own feed, either by drowning comfrey[potassium and others] and nettles [nitrogen] and waiting until it smells like a sewer  before putting a splosh in a watering can to dilute, or by drowning any old weed in a bucket and doing the same thing. Chuck a banana peel in there for a bit of extra potassium..

twopenny

Taff you've been reading the same book as me I think 
I used to have a large bcket of comfrey and nettle juice but it was easier to lob a spoonful of powder into a watering can and it does work well.
I've now stopped putting banana skins rouns my roses and lob them on the compost heap.

Farway I nearly went for that gadget too.  But I don't have a lot of luck with these attachments. Once fell for the hose and brush in a bucket of water selling in a market. Worked fine for the bloke, only ever got it to work once.

Farway

twopenny said:

Taff you've been reading the same book as me I think 
I used to have a large bcket of comfrey and nettle juice but it was easier to lob a spoonful of powder into a watering can and it does work well.
I've now stopped putting banana skins rouns my roses and lob them on the compost heap.

Farway I nearly went for that gadget too.  But I don't have a lot of luck with these attachments. Once fell for the hose and brush in a bucket of water selling in a market. Worked fine for the bloke, only ever got it to work once.

SNAP, but I had the one that went on the end of the hose while washing the car, I think you could buy some soapy stuff to stick in it as well.

Taff, and anyone else, if a GC is not handy,  Asda sell BFB, just bought some the other week £2.97 for 1.5Kg

-taff

2p, the comfrey and nettle, certainly, but the any old weed came from my father who routinely stuck dandelions etc in a bucket that absolutely stank. When I asked him what was it for he told me, for feeding, so I remembered The stench was so powerful it ingrained itself in my memory, exactly like a sewer but a plant sewer...

Farway, thanks for the info, it's a case of six of one, half a dozen except in going to a gc, there'll definitely be more of six than half a dozen because I can't resist getting something I have no room for...

twopenny

If it's any comfort to Abs, my courgette plants looked much the same.

I ought to go out and check but they were improving without much help.

ampersand

Bon juillet au jardin , AR.
Overcast and a bit blowy in the Fens today.
Why not grow your own garlic?  
Last year, I just separated cloves of a supermarket cheapie and plonked them in 2 old Belfast sinks.  1st crop last year gave loads for this year's planting too, probably ready to lift now, but they're patient enough.  I use a lot - c'est bon, l'aïe!
Making my own aïoli, also pesto, using own walnuts - not exorbitantly priced pine nuts - is gratifying and 😀yum.

ArbitraryRandom

It's been a busy week or so, but I now have a waterbutt - and in the 2 days since it's been fitted, it's full already! 

It's not a huge one (only 100L) but I also live in a fairly wet part of the country so there's not many days/weeks when I should need to rely on it heavily when there won't be at least a shower to top it back up. 

-taff

You only have one now...just wait until you need more water

ArbitraryRandom

Well, my plan is to have a fairly large shed/workshop/store room at the end of the garden (c.3 by 6-8m), which I reckon will have the guttering for at least another one (and probably a fairly large capacity one. 

But I 'shouldn't' need that much water given the plan doesn't include much in pots or much in the way of actual allotmenting. She says. So it's written down. All the better to mock in years to come... 

twopenny

Glad to see you back Abs, I was just getting worried.

Waterbutts no use here - sheesh no rain to wet the ground for months!

Perhaps you could syphon it down my way ;-)