Allotment.
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Quite right! After all it's his hard work that supplies what goes into it.Outrageous! If I was you I'd be demanding Chips for tea at the very least twice a week!
My hard what that goes into what ? this is supposed to be a family site,
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Taddy….I think that the ‘hard what’….was hard work.
It is not an easy job looking after growing things.
Seeds do not plant themselves…neither do spuds and onions leap out of the ground and into your barrow.
Nor do slugs commit suicide rather than eat tender young shoots.
Taking care of an allotment is a lot of BAS (britches ar$e steam) and I would not be giving it away either.
Charity is all very well but a hungry belly makes a good worker.
It is not an easy job looking after growing things.
Seeds do not plant themselves…neither do spuds and onions leap out of the ground and into your barrow.
Nor do slugs commit suicide rather than eat tender young shoots.
Taking care of an allotment is a lot of BAS (britches ar$e steam) and I would not be giving it away either.
Charity is all very well but a hungry belly makes a good worker.
A quick update for Skuta, I have just returned from the "Allotment", with four plus pounds of "Blue Lake" green beans, they actually go by the name of French Beans but I cannot call them that when I have grown them in Lancashire, to me they are Lancashire grown green beans and yes Skuta, I have given a quarter of them to a friend. no offence meant.
the birds have nabbed my blueberries ... ive only had one from the bush .. the rest have disappeared!!!
Blueberries are a bush that I would love to grow but I believe they need an acidic soil, I have tried to introduce composted leaves into the soil but it does not seem to have any effect, I have been told that by adding a cup full of vinegar to a gallon of water over the whole bed is a quick way of making the soil acidic, I would love any advice on the matter.
Taddy, I cannot take the credit for this info…it was Googled.
It seems that ammonium sulphate is needed to acidify the soil for blueberries.
My sister in law used to grow lemons(out in Oz)…..she used to save pee to pour on the roots of the tree….she said that this made for very good juicy lemons.
Yes…I know…too much information!
It seems that ammonium sulphate is needed to acidify the soil for blueberries.
My sister in law used to grow lemons(out in Oz)…..she used to save pee to pour on the roots of the tree….she said that this made for very good juicy lemons.
Yes…I know…too much information!
Margaret, we had a lemon tree at the bottom of the garden which for some 40 or more years produced so many lemons that we were able to keep family and friends well supplied, as well as satisfying our own needs. We never needed to do anything to it except water it, but I will say that if we were having any sort of get-together we would encourage the blokes to go and ‘water’ the roots of the tree rather than use the loo, the men’s ‘equipment’ making it easy for them to do so. That tree produced the juiciest lemons you could wish to have.
I hope that you get some of the fertiliser that allows you to grow blueberries, they are really beneficial to health and they taste good too.
Thanks Marge, when I used to wander the fells around Clitheroe with dog, gun and ferrets forty odd years ago, (with the local farmers permission) I might add, in the spring and early summer I used to leave the said gun and ferrets at home and just take "Rags" one of the best little rabbit hunting dogs that I have known and sadly missed, and we would wander across "Birdy Brow and Longridge Fell picking Billberries/Whinberries, which Mrs Taddy would turn into tarts. Blueberries are of a similar species and probably the nearest that I could artificially Cultivate, if you don't try you won't succeed is a mantra I have Always believed in.
Bilberries are a bit more tart….and I remember going up over the tops of Todmorden…..towards Gaddings dam…over the moors.
I took a jam jar but ate as many as I collected….as my blue tongue and teeth would confirm.
You could not eat those in secret.
I saw some punnets of these delights recently…priced at £7.50.
I took a jam jar but ate as many as I collected….as my blue tongue and teeth would confirm.
You could not eat those in secret.
I saw some punnets of these delights recently…priced at £7.50.
i grow my blueberry bush in a pot .. its got ericaeous compost in it and its grown plenty i get a bag of it from wilkos. according to what ive read .. if you can grow azaleas then you've got the kind of soil to grow a blueberry bush ..
taddy this is my blueberry bush .. now there is quite a lot of new growth on it .. if you want you can try to take a cutting and grow it on .. and at least ive found some tomatoes on the seeds i threw in some of the pots ..
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Thank you for that, it is really informative, as it happens I have a friend who is a tree surgeon so I have no problem obtaining differing kinds of woodchip, I shall certainly try turning over one of the allotment beds and adding pine tree woodchip this autumn and planting my blueberries into it this, watch this space next year for an update. again, Many thanks.
good luck taddy xx
Oh dear, nearly September, for the next couple of months I will be turning over all the beds (vegetable I may add), with a garden fork, with me being a high priest of the "tight arses" religion, there will be no mechanical cultivators involved. I will then have to spread a liberal amount of what is ejected from the rear of farm animals that has been quietly steaming away since March/April and then cover all the beds in black plastic in order to allow the worms and other beneficial organisms to do their work.