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- 31 Oct 2021, 21:13
- Forum: Grow your Own Diaries
- Topic: How does your garden grow?
- Replies: 336
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Re: How does your garden grow?
lucky you to have so much fruit to pick. All but 2 apples on my little braeburn disappearred before I got there - I think the squirrel had them!
- 26 Oct 2021, 12:15
- Forum: Members Chicken Keeping Diaries
- Topic: Blind Giblet & friends at Chickenopolous
- Replies: 842
- Views: 293254
Re: Blind Giblet & friends at Chickenopolous
Some memories of a very special hen. https://thumbs2.imgbox.com/06/65/yrpnkebB_t.jpg https://thumbs3.imgbox.com/54/5a/jzdQ2Ik8_t.JPG https://thumbs2.imgbox.com/5d/95/TSqYizv1_t.jpg I have lots of photos of Gib from hatching onwards, but stuck in Photobox. I downloaded all pics from there (took hours...
- 25 Oct 2021, 08:55
- Forum: Members Chicken Keeping Diaries
- Topic: Blind Giblet & friends at Chickenopolous
- Replies: 842
- Views: 293254
Re: Blind Giblet & friends at Chickenopolous
Thankyou Spreckly, I do miss Poppy, she was the one always underfoot when I did gardening & sneaking indoors when the back door was open. More sad news. I brought Giblet indoors last night as she didnt look well. She is dying, this time for real. she's in my arms where she loves to be- fading, my he...
- 24 Oct 2021, 13:16
- Forum: Members Chicken Keeping Diaries
- Topic: Blind Giblet & friends at Chickenopolous
- Replies: 842
- Views: 293254
Re: Blind Giblet & friends at Chickenopolous
Dear old Poppy has left us. She became very poorly last week & lost use of her legs. I think she had a tumour. She was pts on Friday. She was 9 1/2 years old, ex battery trans-hen with the most beautiful plumage. She didnt quite get to grow a full cockerel tail but her spurs were bigger than Bills. ...
- 03 Sep 2021, 22:32
- Forum: Grow your Own Diaries
- Topic: Kitty's Gardenning Adventures
- Replies: 51
- Views: 41313
Re: Kitty's Gardenning Adventures
Unfortunately LL, this year the green house plants were the first to go. My cucumbers in there got blight early on & last year the tomatoes in the greenhouse went but not the outdoor ones. I blame the cheap compost I used, toadstools popping up in all the pots. I actually chose varieties of tomatoes...
- 02 Sep 2021, 11:17
- Forum: Grow your Own Diaries
- Topic: Kitty's Gardenning Adventures
- Replies: 51
- Views: 41313
Re: Kitty's Gardenning Adventures
What a difference a day makes! last week I went to water tomatoe corner & found them in a bad way. It had happened so fast that I guessed my elderly neighbour had used weed killer on his side of the fence. However, its gradually spreading along all the plants so I suppose it must be blight. I've pic...
- 26 Aug 2021, 15:22
- Forum: Just for Pets
- Topic: Fish needing a home
- Replies: 1
- Views: 3131
Re: Fish needing a home
If you get stuck try a fish & pond centre, they will sometimes take them for rehoming. There is also a facebook group for fish rehoming.
- 10 Aug 2021, 07:49
- Forum: Members Chicken Keeping Diaries
- Topic: My attempt to keep chickens.
- Replies: 2471
- Views: 645800
Re: My attempt to keep chickens.
Bob the shepherd/farm boy! sounds like you fit right in there.
- 06 Aug 2021, 07:48
- Forum: Grow your Own Diaries
- Topic: Kitty's Gardenning Adventures
- Replies: 51
- Views: 41313
Re: Kitty's Gardenning Adventures
Perhaps you could try growing something in pots Spreckly. There are several miniture varieties of veg now. I found a "bargain seeds" place on ebay & grew some French beans & tomatoes in pots by the back door this year.
- 04 Aug 2021, 20:16
- Forum: Grow your Own Diaries
- Topic: Kitty's Gardenning Adventures
- Replies: 51
- Views: 41313
Re: Kitty's Gardenning Adventures
looong time past, the veggies have done their thing. This year I planted the seeds in a recommended(but more expensive) compost, everything came up well :-D . I had cayenne, banana & sweet peppers, of which I potted as many as I could in large pots in the greenhouse - using cheap compost from the lo...
- 18 Jul 2021, 21:33
- Forum: Other Wildlife
- Topic: Stray chicken
- Replies: 1
- Views: 5684
Re: Stray chicken
I hope she can catch it. A couple of years ago we had an escaped cockerel living the same way at the bottom of the field behind us, we'd hear him crowing every morning but couldnt find him. One day he stopped crowing & was never heard from again
- 02 Jul 2021, 10:27
- Forum: Environmental, Green & Ethical Issues
- Topic: Wasp Removal No Kill Way
- Replies: 8
- Views: 6266
Re: Wasp Removal No Kill Way
Mosquitos are another matter, I've not heard anything positive about them yet so they still get squished! Mosquitoes are food for flying insects and birds, while the larvae in water are food for umpteen aquatic species (including dragonfly larvae and fish to name just a couple who benefit) I know t...
- 30 Jun 2021, 22:19
- Forum: Environmental, Green & Ethical Issues
- Topic: Wasp Removal No Kill Way
- Replies: 8
- Views: 6266
Re: Wasp Removal No Kill Way
I used to feel like that Mo, but I've learned more about wasps & they are actually important as pollinaters & pest controllers. Mosquitos are another matter, I've not heard anything positive about them yet so they still get squished!
- 30 Jun 2021, 11:27
- Forum: Environmental, Green & Ethical Issues
- Topic: Wasp Removal No Kill Way
- Replies: 8
- Views: 6266
Re: Wasp Removal No Kill Way
if you can keep out of their way for a while they will abandon the nest in Aug/sept. Until then they are just feeding the grubs & the grubs give them syrup, once the grubs are gone they start to starve, hence the invasion of our drinks & jam! My theory is that if you then leave something sugary at t...
- 25 Jun 2021, 07:02
- Forum: Garden Wildlife
- Topic: what's in my wheelbarrow
- Replies: 3
- Views: 4237
Re: what's in my wheelbarrow
Ha, ants are great opportunists. I reckon if humans disappeared ants would soon take over all our stuff! Actually I found lots of ants in the bottom of my wheelbarrow when I'd emptied it the other day, I wheeled them back to the same spot so they could find their way home.