Gardening for kno bends.

[steve_earwig]

Just a quick word of warning to all you budding (hur hur) gardeners out there - if you go to the store and see a load of bulbs under a picture of a pretty flower DO NOT ASSUME that this is what the bulbs are. I did this last autumn, rushed out and planted about 100 of what I though were crocuses and I've just been out and examined them - thems aint crocuses, thems onions The moral is: always read the label especially if it's in foreign

Ooooh we gonna have lots and lots of pickled onions this year

[sirwiggum]

Would be handy enough. Never seem to have enough onions for cooking.

Our peas withered and the tomatoes never appeared.

[lozz]

Lmfao,
couidnt you have noticed by the smell of them they were onions ?

[steve_earwig]

I know, it's obvious now I think about it but they're tiny seed onions about the size of a finger tip

Would be handy enough. Never seem to have enough onions for cooking.

Our peas withered and the tomatoes never appeared.

I gave up with peas here, and sweetcorn and any form of root vegetable - if the pests don't get them it's because their teeth aren't sharp enough. I grew spuds 3 years ago and they did very well, so I planted more the following year and I didn't even get back as many as I'd planted - bluddy Colorados ate the damn things upwards, so I'll not be bothering again. I usually grow about 100 tomato plants and they do fairly well, not enough for a market but more than we know what to do with, courgettes coming out of our ears, cukes, french beans, I've even found a way of growing lettuce without them bolting after the first couple of leaves using nets for shade. I don't usually bother with onions though because they get in the way of ploughing. Not in flower beds they don't though

[lozz]

weve got 100s of bulbs growing in our gardens
our weeds are Blue bells they look nice but when you see millions of them theyre weeds to me,

as for bulbs in one of the gardens flower beds ive used for getting rid of engine oil suprisingly crocus dont mind abit of castrol they come up every year nice and shiney

im still waiting for the old drop links and stuff like that to grow but nowts happening yet

[steve_earwig]

You want horses, where I grew up there was a forest full of bluebells, every spring there used to be a beautiful blue carpet of the things. Then they decided to fence the forest and the surrounding fields off and keep horses there, the bluebells were trampled to extinction

Imagine it on Gardener's World - "ahh, Peugeoicus droplinkious, the Seized Drop link plant". You'd probably do best to find plants that like iron in the soil. Like nettles

[lozz]

The blue bells are nice but they sort of take over everything,
someone told me its ilegal to dig them up as there protected so ijust give them a hair cut with the strimmer,

[FarmerPug]

a typical french garden, some onion trees up the drive.

I made a similar purchase one time, i wanted to get some different breeds of hens at the car boot sale, and got 2 young pullets, they were great for the first 6 months. Then one started to crow, it quickly made itself known as a rooser, the other one was also a fecking rooster, i started to realise this a month later.
They had to go quick before they started to fight.

[lozz]

Im Thinkin of getting some chickens for the top end of the garden,
they might help clear off the weeds up there,
Im just abit worried about my dogs tho ithink theyl shred them as they can jump a 5ft fence

[FarmerPug]

My dog did eat a few hens in the early days, and still enjoys the thrill of chasing them, however one time i do remember watching him getting one hen that was in the middle of the yard, with ruthless efficency, he then took the hen and dropped it off back at the hen house, and left it. The hen sat frozen there not doing a thing.

The only solution is to fence them in well, or train them. If the dogs good with cats it will be ok with hens.

[lozz]

My dogs are cat trained but there not friendly with birds,
weve no rabbits so the only substitute is wood pidgeon there soft feathers get stuck in there throat tho,
we not allowed to fox hunt so theres not much else for em to catch chase other than pidgeons for a bit of sport,

ithink it be a bit cruel too greyhound the chickens iwill get some and see how they go

[steve_earwig]

One of our neighbour's chickens decided to come in the garden here with the dogs, it was one of those fancy chickens with feathers on its feet. "Was" being the operative word

Hold on, I did a thread at the time viewtopic.php?f=5&t=5306&p=51678&hilit=+chicken#p51678

[FarmerPug]

we have problems with the pheasents coming and taking the chickens food, and the rooster tries to fight with the male pheasent who just flies off.

[lozz]

One of our neighbour's chickens decided to come in the garden here with the dogs, it was one of those fancy chickens with feathers on its feet. "Was" being the operative word

Hold on, I did a thread at the time viewtopic.php?f=5&t=5306&p=51678&hilit=+chicken#p51678

aww the poor chicken

My dogs wouidnt ave left it in one peice
one of my hounds caught a tree rat today ididnt know theyd had it at 1st till iwent up to see what all the noise was about they was playing tug of war with it all the noise from the dogs musta of been them saying its mine ihad it 1st

[lozz]

we have problems with the pheasents coming and taking the chickens food, and the rooster tries to fight with the male pheasent who just flies off.

pheasent is better than steak ,
its expensive get some caught