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EADD Gardening Club: Ploughing FUBAR's infertile Fields

Small but perfectly formed and still warm:

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Only Bob's laying (named by a 4 year old who says they go bob bob bob, but full name Roberta Flock), one yesterday and one today, but don't think Maggie's going to be too far behind (as in Thatcher - evil bitch, bosses the lot) :)
 
YellowPolkaDotHalo said:
I put slug pellets down the other day around me lupins and beans. Then someone kindly informed me that inexperienced baby birds eat the poisoned slugs and die.

Is that true do you think? I'm not going to google a green page i'll feel even worse..

I felt like the black bird was having a go at me today.:sus:
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Be a responsible slug pellet user & get out first thing and collects the dead slugs :)

sorry for the multiple posts mods
 
badandwicked said:
Small but perfectly formed and still warm:

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Only Bob's laying (named by a 4 year old who says they go bob bob bob, but full name Roberta Flock), one yesterday and one today, but don't think Maggie's going to be too far behind (as in Thatcher - evil bitch, bosses the lot) :)
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<3 <3 <3 and congrats!!

was watching countryfile a few weeks ago, and their presenter/farmer guy set up some chucks. said each one was expected to produce about 300 per year? also, the different coloured ones had similar coloured eggs ... brown, white etc

good look with em, in the pics they seems happy n healthy.

how long do they stay in the pen in the picture before theyre let out, or are they always in there?
 
Thanks Marmz <3 I was told 3 days, and to do it just before dusk so they stay close and go back in on their own, so tonight 7pm's the big moment. next doors already said he'll chuck em back if they fly over and told me I can mooch round his garden when ever I need to. I'm hoping not to have to clip their wings and I have a fishing net as back up.

Are you thinking about getting any?
 
How are the girls getting on now B&W - egg updates?

All of a sudden I have a glut of cabbage and lettuce, really miscalculated there. I'm googling like a meerkat looking for decent recipes I can freeze, there's only so much can be steamed, strirfried, salad'd etc The swiss shard and kale are heading this way too. And the broad and runner beans are flowering already - fucking vegetables are taking over the place 8o Is this normal - I'm panicking? 8(

Advice please?

I've slowed down the succession planting, I'm running out of room...do I pull all the big stuff up, try and preserve as much as i can and slow everything right down? ffs :|
 
I've tried offering it but this is scotland and not a lot of folk are that into home-grown (maybe its just mine) green veg lol. Everyone else just does flowers apart from my mother-in-law, however (luckily :sus:) she lives in the other side of the country.

as do you :D

Valuable lesson *shakes head* :\

The Polish do an interesting ara of cabbage related recipes.

There's 48 beetroots out there 8( least I can pickle em and send to dan :D
 
They're great thanks Kate I <3 them. So funny & sweet. Only the one laying every day without fail, the others must be a bit younger. No hassle at all, put themselves to bed - all i do it top up the food and water and shut the door at night & let them out in the mornings. If I had a big enough secure run attached to the house I wouldn't even need to do this so I could go away for weekends and leave them but mines a bit small so they roam while i'm at home. Amazing how much more you get done when you're up at 7 :)

They love surplus greens from the veggie patch - its the green stuff that makes the yolk yellow. And if you move the run around the plot at the end of growing season they'll fertilise it and clear it ready for spring. Chickens & veggies seem to go hand in hand. If Felix came to love the cats, he'd do the same with the chickens guaranteed ;)

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Heres an old family recipe for white cabbage, we've always called in choucroute but it's nothing like the choucroute recipes I've googled. Its really really good as an accompaniment to meats like gammon and my favourite is with lasagne.

4 cups shredded white cabbage
1/2 cup malt vinegar
1/2 cup sugar
1/4 cup water
1/4 tsp celery salt
Salt & pepper

Combine ingredients, pour over cabbage, refrigerate over night turning occasionally.

If you're not growing white cabbage I don't know if the irony will let you buy half a one, but I'd recommend you try it.
 
Got a challenging one for you gardeners. I've a few sunflower seeds here thanks to my Sunflower Festival ticket...is it too late to plant them? Hearing mixed opinions and I've honestly no clue. Just want to get some sort of use out of them and if I have to wait till next year I may as well.
 
:) What strain is that?

How did your straggly uncared for ones get on in the end?

I've got to get my Frisian Dews planted out now, got a couple of spots sorted, could do with one or preferably two more really.
 
I'm considering growing poppies soon if that counts?
There's a few acres of fields near me so some ninja planting and boom!
Purely decorative ofcourse ;)
 
I scattered a couple of packets of seeds SOS and only one germinated. They aren't as easy as you would think to grow considering they are classed as a weed in some countries.

I read, though, that Poppy seeds can lay dormant for decades in the ground. It gets turned over and hundreds germinate.. thats what happened in the Flanders fields.
 
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Obviously the soil will need prepping and the usual horticultural things.
Plus at 79p for 100g of the things means if even a single one germinates it's great value for money.
 
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