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mmmm 'tomatoes' you say, are these the ones you're growing indoors in a foil-lined room
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'I was assured by the lady at the WI that these were tomato plants, your honour'
Last year it wasn't too much of a problem as I didn't go away for long and I was growing 'tumbling toms' in baskets so I could take them to a neighbour to water for a bit. This year I'm going to try some Marmande tomatoes in a grow bag which I can't shift easily and I'm goign to be away during the hottest part of the year (if we are lucky).
That said - does anyone have any tips for shielding your house from those thermal imagint cameras the police use?
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^ that works a treat
all sorted for tomatoes but Mint is piss easy, its a weed and grows all over the place
i also got half a dozen special seeds shooting.. i just hope they can grow big enough before that BigRippedBurning machine smells them from Bronkley and decimates my garden
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Cheers BDW - I'll take a look at that!
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Please can someone take some tomato plants off my hands. I have a million too many. Lovingly raised and ready to plant out, but the majority now need saving before I chuck them on the compost. I also have spare runner bean plants and courgette plants. Pick up Brockley :)
I'll take some of those, we've been really slack getting our terrace veggie plot together... This would be perfect... :]
Yep, in.
Joe, could you drop some for me off on your way back ;)Joke. Chat Weds?
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I've just gone and bought some plant food, (of the non manure variety), as my soil is pretty exhausted and I didn't get around to adding enough shite to it over winter. So I've now got a massive box of it (indoor and outdoor) if anyone needs any? I can't see myself using it all. Water soluble stuff, so can easily bag it up and pretend it's ricin.
I've also got hundreds of unused small plastic planting pots (sort of the 5 - 10cm ones) and some random plastic buckets if people need? I can't use 'em all. Oh and artichokes. Bleddy millions of them, you'd be doing me a favour to take the bulbs off my hands - but obv. not until end of season.
Hops, I'd love to take some of the toms off you, but I'm not going to be free in the evening until Friday / weekend. Or depending on whether they bolt or not, maybe the Bronxley Drinks?
I can organise a Dulwich Shite Trip to the stables too if anyone is interested? Hmm, manure.
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Oak timbers for your raised beds, or for your 'stick' if you're BDW. £5 each
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@ OP - Wayne
Take a tip from Greasy. Grow high cost / expensive plants and buy the cheep ones.
Use the space to put in thyme / sage / basil / corriander / bay ... the stuff you buy by the gram / ounce
Buy potato / carrot / swede the stuff you buy by the kilo / lb
Potato's take up quite a bit of space which in Londons Famous London is in short supply -
I've just gone and bought some plant food, (of the non manure variety), as my soil is pretty exhausted and I didn't get around to adding enough shite to it over winter. So I've now got a massive box of it (indoor and outdoor) if anyone needs any? I can't see myself using it all. Water soluble stuff, so can easily bag it up and pretend it's ricin.
I've also got hundreds of unused small plastic planting pots (sort of the 5 - 10cm ones) and some random plastic buckets if people need? I can't use 'em all. Oh and artichokes. Bleddy millions of them, you'd be doing me a favour to take the bulbs off my hands - but obv. not until end of season.
Hops, I'd love to take some of the toms off you, but I'm not going to be free in the evening until Friday / weekend. Or depending on whether they bolt or not, maybe the Bronxley Drinks?
I can organise a Dulwich Shite Trip to the stables too if anyone is interested? Hmm, manure.
Where are you based?
If SE22 then I'd love to come get some pots n tings.Praps we should have a bring n buy / drinks to swap gardening stuffs!
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SW2, so not far away. In fact a spat tomato pip or gently lobbed potato away from Jeanstain.
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Free logs and woodchip for norths and easts, possibly further away if I like the cut of yer jib. Could be useful for someone? Mushroom logs ftw. Need to be spored withn a couple of hours of being cut ideally.
How would you spore the log?
Tried one of those mushroom boxes but never really worked well.
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SW2, so not far away. In fact a spat tomato pip or gently lobbed potato away from Jeanstain.
I'll take some pots, Chris... We need to get cracking on our 'terrace farm'...
Ha, me too.
Might have to arrange a round trip to HOPS and yours with either a massive bag or a car, then.I heart this forum.
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do you still want the spuds
I have some earlies looking for a home.
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eeeh pete, that would be reet grand - where ya based?
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I said I had a few spares. Let me know if you are interested although this is probably the wrong time of year for many of them...
Wild Garlic (Allium ursinium)
Cornfower (centaura cyganus)
Bergamot (Monarda didyma)
Wormwood (Artemisia Absinthium)
Lady's Mantel (Alchemilla Mollis)
Viper's Bugloss (Echium Vulgare)
Flanders Poppy (papaver rhoeas)
Venus fly trap
Wild rocket
Carrot (Amsterdam 3-sprint)
Chinese Pak Choi
Spinach Picasso F1
Onion (spring) White Lisbon
Dil
Chives (Allium schoenoprasum)
Foxglove (Digitalis purpurea)Some are bought, some are home grown so Ican't always guarantee that they are viable.
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As we are talking about growing stuff - has anyone ever made their own 'irrigation device' for wont of a better word, that's cheap but'll keep my tomatoes going for two weeks during the summer?
Tomatoes actually like it dry, if you water them while fruit is ripening youll get poor flavour.
If your plants are fairly big and sturdy at the time you are leaving, and they are not in a container/growbag they should be fine.
I would just make sure that youve pinched them out fully before leaving.
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pinching the tommies is paramount.
i have some botty-burners on the way again, as well as the usual kale/spinach/lett/toms/onions/beans, etc.
the new additions this year are a fig tree and a blueberry bush.
the rhubarb is dominating, too.
i will be ready for swappery in a bit.
there are also a few spesh plants in there this year
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As we are talking about growing stuff - has anyone ever made their own 'irrigation device' for wont of a better word, that's cheap but'll keep my tomatoes going for two weeks during the summer?