What crop are you growing this year? (1 Viewer)

[the_jen]

yes - bought 'horticultural' garlic i think years ago, but we've just been keeping cloves each time since and replanting. was it yourself i collected a load of coffee stuff off a few years back? i could arrange to drop some cloves in to you.

IIRC most shop bought garlic is soft neck, but hard neck garlic is more suited to our climate.

Yes! I'm the coffee person and would love some hardy Irish garlic! Happy to travel for it either.

 

[magicbastarder]

the cider is really light tasting. nice colour too, just the vaguest hint of pink from the apples.

 

[magicbastarder]

Yes! I'm the coffee person and would love some hardy Irish garlic! Happy to travel for it either.

hadn't forgotten about this btw; just finished planting ours and have about 20 cloves left over, and three or four elephant garlic cloves; you're welcome to take them.

 

[the_jen]

I think I got my first scape, @magicbastarder !

 

[magicbastarder]

Our elephant garlic are doing that too - if you're a garlic fiend, snap then off and munch on them raw, they are lovely and juicy and crisp. My wife deep fried them last year, also good.

 

[magicbastarder]

lifted the spuds that were in the ground today - looks like blight got to the plants, so i reckon we'll lose some of the spuds to that. not a heroic haul, and also the slugs got to a lot of them. the ones grown in bags seem to have done better.
also collected a load of nasturtium seeds. the plan is to pickle those. i've never tasted them before, but by god are they peppery (with a hint of mustard).

also chopped down the plum tree; it's been ailing for the last few years. it overcropped one year and broke a branch, and silverleaf got in. so it was pretty much done.

 

[magicbastarder]

this year's crop of cooking apples.

 

[magicbastarder]

also, my wife has made jam from the damsons and has been singing 'jam, i wish i was your lover' for the last day or two and i can't get it out of my head now.

i chopped the damson tree down yesterday - it had grown way too big; was supposed to only grow to about 3m but was easily double that, so we couldn't get most of the damsons. plus, it had started to show a little of what looked like silverleaf, which claimed the plum tree which had been next to it, and when i too the tree town, the stump clearly shows something had started to attack it.

 

[ann post]

I got fuck all apples, like maybe 4kg. I'm gonna work on that part a bit over the winter if I ever finish all the other things.

 

[ann post]

Another winter possible is to build an arduino based greenhouse watering / maintenance type machine.
The ones online use those moisture sensors and then also say those things corrode and keep having to be replaced.
Was thinking i'd go more with some kinda math based thing. like read the temp/humidity every two hours from dusk till dawn (use a light sensor here) and dump water at somepoint based on temperature and use a time funciton based on the flow rate - i think that takes out the corrosion issue and Its really mostly because UTM doesn't really do the watering the herbs thing when i'm away.
I want a greenhouse but I kinda want to have the maintenance robot built first because everything else everywhere also needs maintenance.

 

[magicbastarder]

my wife is talking about getting a greenhouse for where the damson and plum trees used to be. there's a probable max footprint of 8' x 6' there i think.

 

[ann post]

my wife is talking about getting a greenhouse for where the damson and plum trees used to be. there's a probable max footprint of 8' x 6' there i think.

I was down with a retired relative recently who's running tomatoes, herbs, salad veg in one and they were amazing. I'd say it might have been 12x8ish kinda range - i've not been in a lot of them but I defo think the biggest you can cram in is best. I did have mates growing tomatoes and weed years ago too, both were great

 

[ann post]

edit - sorry the point of all that was, he gets a lot of enjoyment out of it @magicbastarder

 

[pete]

also, my wife has made jam from the damsons and has been singing 'jam, i wish i was your lover' for the last day or two and i can't get it out of my head now.

i chopped the damson tree down yesterday - it had grown way too big; was supposed to only grow to about 3m but was easily double that, so we couldn't get most of the damsons. plus, it had started to show a little of what looked like silverleaf, which claimed the plum tree which had been next to it, and when i too the tree town, the stump clearly shows something had started to attack it.

Was it a man with a chainsaw?

 

[magicbastarder]

the man my woman wishes was her lover?

 

[Reets]

Was it a man with a chainsaw?

Bit late now but always make sure your “man with a chainsaw” is legit.
Hives and I know someone that had to identify the body of the guy they hired. It was grim.

 

[magicbastarder]

i am my own man with a chainsaw in this case.
i'm not sure if you're legally allowed identify yourself though.
though i am now curious what happened above; with chainsaws, it's much better to learn from other people's mistakes than your own.

 

[seanc]

I knew someone who found himself as an arborist. As in he found the job he loved finally. He liked climbing and power tools and was pretty intense. It chilled him out because it was a very REAL job. So in a strange way it calmed him down, he wasn't bored anymore.

He is still alive, btw. God knows where he'd be without a chainsaw in his hands, as a job. Quite possibly with a chainsaw, getting tasered by police.

Point is, never underestimate the chainsaw. I've used them, you've used them. It's a wildly dangerous thing even when you know what you're doing. As my associate would repeatedly tell me.

 

[magicbastarder]

Yeah, not something you want to get complacent with. Kinda bemusing that you can buy them in Aldi or Lidl. Though they also sell table saws, which can also be very dangerous but don't have near the same reputation.

 

[egg_]

I'm way too scatter-brained to ever use a chainsaw - I'm constantly cutting/injuring myself with normal tools, if I had a chainsaw I'd be lucky to have any fingers left

I was in Woodie's one time and asked the guy for a loan of a saw to cut down some wood so I could fit it in the car, and he said "No fucking way. Last time you were here you cut yourself on your own saw and bled all over the staff bathroom"