Plans for planting

[pargyle]

Yes!!

If you leave it long enough the stink does recede to a manageable level. I leave it to stew for a few months, strain it off the solids and decant it into an old brewing barrel with a tap on it. Dilute it down to about 10% for use.

I also add in seaweed (washed), picked up above the high tide mark on the beach and nettles which I grow in a tub for that purpose - it's a pretty potent mix eventually and a teaspoon of Epsom salts in the watering can before making up the watering mixture finishes the job off !

 

[Nannysbees]

If you leave it long enough the stink does recede to a manageable level. I leave it to stew for a few months, strain it off the solids and decant it into an old brewing barrel with a tap on it. Dilute it down to about 10% for use.

I also add in seaweed (washed), picked up above the high tide mark on the beach and nettles which I grow in a tub for that purpose - it's a pretty potent mix eventually and a teaspoon of Epsom salts in the watering can before making up the watering mixture finishes the job off !

Why Epsom salts?

 

[Erichalfbee]

Why Epsom salts?

Magnesium

 

[Antipodes]

I'm going to try to raise a few bursaria spinosa (prickly box). My understanding is that bursaria (bursa) refers to the shape and structure of the seed pods which are shaped as heart-like purses. Also sometimes called the castanet bush because the seeds rattle inside the pods when ripe. Sown, wetted down and put in the fridge for a few weeks is supposed to work. Here is a photo from this morning.

 

[Curly green finger's]

If you leave it long enough the stink does recede to a manageable level. I leave it to stew for a few months, strain it off the solids and decant it into an old brewing barrel with a tap on it. Dilute it down to about 10% for use.

I also add in seaweed (washed), picked up above the high tide mark on the beach and nettles which I grow in a tub for that purpose - it's a pretty potent mix eventually and a teaspoon of Epsom salts in the watering can before making up the watering mixture finishes the job off !

I haven't for a while but I use to make my own seaweed comfrey and molasses liquid feed, also use to add milk once a month to the mix.

 

[Skinfaxi]

I haven't for a while but I use to make my own seaweed comfrey and molasses liquid feed, also use to add milk once a month to the mix.

Yes that will really get the microbes going. Have you seen the bugs that grow in the nettle stock. Really cool

 

[Nannysbees]

I haven't for a while but I use to make my own seaweed comfrey and molasses liquid feed, also use to add milk once a month to the mix.

Gosh that sounds a bit complicated, bet it was wonderful for the garden.

 

[Erichalfbee]

Just preparing my dose of Oxalic for the week

 

[Nannysbees]

Just preparing my dose of Oxalic for the week

Wow, very jealous, can't grow rhubarb to save my soul!!!

 

[Nannysbees]

Desperate to plant out my borage but the forecast is telling me to wait until after next week. My greenhouse is bursting at the seams. To many seeds sown and not enough room to transplant!!!

 

[Erichalfbee]

Desperate to plant out my borage but the forecast is telling me to wait until after next week. My greenhouse is bursting at the seams. To many seeds sown and not enough room to transplant!!!

Same problem here. Grow too many. I usually advertise free ones on local next-door neighbour group

 

[jenkinsbrynmair]

Just preparing my dose of Oxalic for the week

Mine is coming along nicely, my mother will be pleased that I've managed to carry on my grandfather's tradition of having rhubarb by Easter - and using the root I got from his garden - which he got from his grandmother's garden

 

[JamezF]

As my son is now back from university today we had what is probably our last full roast dinner of the winter, with parsnips, sprouts and the last of the carrots from the garden (almost the last of the sprouts, too). Rhubarb (also from the garden) fool for dessert.

James

 

[JamezF]

My greenhouse is bursting at the seams.

Mine too. Some stuff is going to have to start getting planted out this week I think, under fleece if required.

James

 

[E&MBees]

Very glad I held off planting loads of seeds at home with the forecast for next week looking as poor as it does. Keeping everything ok at work is going to be a challenge!

 

[Gilberdyke John]

Mine is coming along nicely, my mother will be pleased that I've managed to carry on my grandfather's tradition of having rhubarb by Easter - and using the root I got from his garden - which he got from his grandmother's garden

Our firstborn was fed using a glass baby bottle which was sterilized by boiling in a big pan of water. Living in a hard water area the pan became encrusted with limescale. When bottle boiling was done we found that stewing rhubarb left the pan gleaming like a brand new one. We didn't eat that particular stewing but generally stewed rhubarb and custard was regularly eaten in our house.

 

[Moobee]

Wow, very jealous, can't grow rhubarb to save my soul!!!

really? just needs a good sunny spot and loads of compost/mulch I find.

 

[jenkinsbrynmair]

always pays in the first year after planting to not pick any of it but let it grow the whole season and die back naturally just to build up the root.
I remember one of my Chief Engineers (we didn't call him the Knuckle Dragging Oaf for nothing) who'd interpreted it as 'do not eat any in the first season' as if it was poisonous or something!! so just kept cutting it back and throwing it in the rubbish. Needless to say it didn't look very healthy the next year either.

 

[Nannysbees]

Mine is coming along nicely, my mother will be pleased that I've managed to carry on my grandfather's tradition of having rhubarb by Easter - and using the root I got from his garden - which he got from his grandmother's garden

Wow how lovely

 

[Nannysbees]

really? just needs a good sunny spot and loads of compost/mulch I find.

Tried everything failed miserably