~ WORLDWIDE Vegetable Allotments ~ REVIVAL of last years thread ~

[Hattie the Hen]

Good morning -- lots of questions to answer.........!!

boggy b
I don't know what stinkbugs are so I presume we don't have them. Have they got a Latin name?

A lot of back gardens are very narrow here. I'm lucky as mine is not like that at all because it I have one of six houses that a land owner built for his estate workers in the 1920's. They weren't very well paid but the house was free with the job. He included a large garden so they could grow plenty of vegetables & fruit (he even gave them fruit trees) & keep chickens & even fatten a pig.
He was considered an enlightened employer who spoiled his men. He built the 6 houses hiring a local builder who built them out of wychert ( a local type of clay) & trees from his own land. So, esentially, I live in a mud hut........!!!

Couch grass was invented by the devil.....!! When I moved in the garden was full of it but eventually, thanks to free-ranging my chickens, it seems to be under control.

Now ducks4you

Re:"Fleece",

Take a look at this link to the company I buy mine from:

http://www.harrodhorticultural.com/...gry=Harrod&x=15&y=10&serial=10021636251121675

http://www.ciao.co.uk/Horticultural_Fleece__5129017

I could not do without it & I buy it by the roll -- it is 3metres wide.



:rose Hattie :rose

 

[boggybranch]

Good morning Hattie,

Check this link on the "stink bug"....it's even got a picture. There is a British "counterpart" listed, also.


http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stink_bug


Pretty cool history behind your home, too.

 

[Ladyhawke1]

Good morning -- lots of questions to answer.........!!

boggy b
I don't know what stinkbugs are so I presume we don't have them. Have they got a Latin name?

A lot of back gardens are very narrow here. I'm lucky as mine is not like that at all because it I have one of six houses that a land owner built for his estate workers in the 1920's. They weren't very well paid but the house was free with the job. He included a large garden so they could grow plenty of vegetables & fruit (he even gave them fruit trees) & keep chickens & even fatten a pig.
He was considered an enlightened employer who spoiled his men. He built the 6 houses hiring a local builder who built them out of wychert ( a local type of clay) & trees from his own land. So, esentially, I live in a mud hut........!!!

Couch grass was invented by the devil.....!! When I moved in the garden was full of it but eventually, thanks to free-ranging my chickens, it seems to be under control.

Now ducks4you

Re:"Fleece",

Take a look at this link to the company I buy mine from:

http://www.harrodhorticultural.com/...gry=Harrod&x=15&y=10&serial=10021636251121675

http://www.ciao.co.uk/Horticultural_Fleece__5129017

I could not do without it & I buy it by the roll -- it is 3metres wide.



:rose Hattie :rose

I do not know if they are present in the British Isles or not...but stink bugs are the impolite little devils that stick their bums in the air at you when you bother them.

They are black and are supposed to shoot stuff out their backsides and it has an offensive odor. When I was a kid, nothing scared me and I would pick them up quite often. They do stink and it is hard to wash off. They would complain a lot when I held them, but they never hurt me and I always let them go.

 

[ducks4you]

Isn't it funny how we never change from the stuff we did as kids!! You were a natural outdoorsman, even then.
I used to have a jungle gym that I could climb and also flip over 3 different ways. We have home movies of me hanging upside down from this and swinging. No WONDER that I still (at 52) LIVE outside on our 5 acres and that I like to ride and train my horses--and ride fast!!

 

[boggybranch]

Isn't it funny how we never change from the stuff we did as kids!! You were a natural outdoorsman, even then.
I used to have a jungle gym that I could climb and also flip over 3 different ways. We have home movies of me hanging upside down from this and swinging. No WONDER that I still (at 52) LIVE outside on our 5 acres and that I like to ride and train my horses--and ride fast!!

You got an "amen" from the back pew on that one.......with the exception of the horse "thing".
Almost got killed by one (took 2 years to recover) back in 2000. You can't put me in a sack, shake it up and pour me in a pen with a horse.

 

[Hattie the Hen]

Good Morning,

Another offering.....!

boggy b, this one has got a few photos but is mostly writing about his allotment; but I think you will find it interesting.

http://vortexs-veg-patch.blogspot.c...dated-max=2007-01-01T00:00:00Z&max-results=13

We had a bit of snow last night, just a sprinkle, not the 4" they were talking about. Anyway it is already melting -- so yet more MUD.....!!

*****By the way I have just started a thread on the uses of RockDust here on TEG.

http://www.theeasygarden.com/forum/viewtopic.php?id=27718. As I intend to post a lot of info, results etc. I thought it deserved a place of it's own.....!!

:rose Hattie :rose

 

[boggybranch]

Good morning Hattie,

How goes it with the Battle of the Bug? Hope you are making some headway to recovery.

This is a pretty good link. This will be my first year growing carrots. Knowing, through research, that they need deeply loose soil to produce the best, I was wondering about an alternative planting method. Think this link gave it to me. I have an over-abundant supply of 3 liter and gal milk bottles. Think I'm gonna try cutting the top and bottom out of the 3 litre soda bottles, burying them in the soil (to alliviate the need to constantly monitor the moisture level), fill with good, loose planting medium and give that a try.

Haven't ever thought about screwing the milk cartons to a timber and using them as planters....gonna give it a go now, tho. Got a perfect spot for it on the side of one of my shed....in partial shade. Should be a good spot for growing some greens during our hot summers.

 

[Hattie the Hen]

Good morning/Good night... ???

I have, at last, found a local allotmenteer; now you can have a look at the snow we have had this year (with more to come this week),

http://gwenfarslottie.blogspot.com/

She gardens in Oxford which is about 25miles from me.

I'm feeling a lot better today -- at last.....

Hattie

 

[Hattie the Hen]

Ah! I appear to have a break through............I have been trying to find more vegetable blogs in Europe. This one is from Belgium (but it's in English).

http://www.lusthof.org/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=12&Itemid=27


:rose Hattie :rose

 

[boggybranch]

Ah! I appear to have a break through............I have been trying to find more vegetable blogs in Europe. This one is from Belgium (but it's in English).

http://www.lusthof.org/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=12&Itemid=27


:rose Hattie :rose

Morning Hattie,

Sounds like this fellow is living a dream....he's lucky, indeed. It made me smile to see that one of his favorite books is Ruth Stouts "No Work Gardening"....which is, also, my gardening "bible".