Posted by paulo232323 on May 26, 2006, 4:09 am
Has anybody seen the new gardening website www.pvgc2.co.uk? It is really
nice
to see a site that looks so nice and is easy to use. I found it
very cheap too.
I'll be interested to see what you all think about it
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paulo232323
Posted by Mike Lyle on March 21, 2006, 11:56 am
Bob Hobden wrote:
> Steve wrote after Bob Hobden replied:
[...we seem to have the attributions mixed up here...]
>>> Very nice Steve, but what's all this about planting Garlic on the
>>> shortest
>>> day? It should be planted in September or early October.
>>>
>> Thankyou Bob for the advice about when to plant Garlic, is this to
>> allow it to put on enough growth to withstand the winter better?
>>
> It's about the hardiest plant you can grow but the old gardeners
> thought it "foreign" and therefore tender so it was planted in the
> spring...wrong if you want big heads like in the shops. Where the
> shortest day comes from goodness knows.
> If you plant in the autumn it will get it's roots down and be into
> growth before the worst of the weather, then in any warmer spell
> during the winter it will grow some more and be quite large by the
> time spring comes when it will romp away giving you much better
> heads. It's had a longer growing season.
> I've tried using shop bought heads to plant (cheaper) and heads from
> seed merchants like Marshall's and now always use the latter, we get
> a much better crop.
I used to believe the shortest-day superstition, too. Joy Larkcom's Veg.
for Small Gardens says to put it in as early as possible from early
autumn. Some varieties, she says, need four to six weeks' frosting to
break dormancy. BUT if the soil is badly drained or very heavy, she says
to plant out in early spring -- preferably after growing in modfules in
a cold frame over winter.
I'd always use sets from a seedsman, not supermarket bulbs: the ones you
buy for cooking won't be varieties adapted to British growing
conditions, which is why they'll generally give a poor yield.
--
Mike.
Posted by Phil L on May 26, 2006, 10:30 am
paulo232323 wrote:
> Has anybody seen the new gardening website www.pvgc2.co.uk? It is
> really nice to see a site that looks so nice and is easy to use. I
> found it very cheap too. I'll be interested to see what you all think
> about it
OK, my thoughts are thus:
any site that requires spam to get noticed isn't worth visiting.
HTH
Posted by BoyPete on May 26, 2006, 3:54 pm
Phil L wrote:
> paulo232323 wrote:
>> Has anybody seen the new gardening website www.pvgc2.co.uk? It is
>> really nice to see a site that looks so nice and is easy to use. I
>> found it very cheap too. I'll be interested to see what you all think
>> about it
> OK, my thoughts are thus:
> any site that requires spam to get noticed isn't worth visiting.
> HTH
You can't anyway 'Page cannot be found' lol
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Posted by Janet Baraclough on May 26, 2006, 6:17 pm
> Phil L wrote:
> > paulo232323 wrote:
> >> Has anybody seen the new gardening websiteBzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzt? It is
> >> really nice to see a site that looks so nice and is easy to use. I
> >> found it very cheap too. I'll be interested to see what you all think
> >> about it
> >
> > OK, my thoughts are thus:
> > any site that requires spam to get noticed isn't worth visiting.
> >
> >
> > HTH
> You can't anyway 'Page cannot be found' lol
Yeah well, he did say he found it *very* cheap :-) It was probably
hand crafted by blind toddlers in the third world.
Janet
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