64 multi sown plugs so +/- 4 to a plug should give 250 odd turnips.
When germinated they go down to the cellar under lights then on to be planted outside in the garden. We will keep some for ourselves the bulk going to a charity.
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Might have to start calling you Baldrick 
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Little tour of one of my gardens.
Leaks, lettuces 2 types, onions and shallots are looking good after the winter.
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Today sown, parsley, basil, celeriac, beetroot & some home saved lettuce seed, Aka Bazoches.
Have my potatoes chitting, bintje & desiree.
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I confess, I have pinched so many of your ideas that my weekend is almost the same as yours in the garden. Not sure about the leaks though 
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Pinch as many as you want. 
That’s one of the reasons I post on this tread.
Here’s a little tip for you: this is what I do when sowing celeriac or celery.
I use a seed tray filled with multipurpose compost and scatter the seeds on it but do not cover them with any more compost; just water them in & then put cling film over the tray to keep the moisture in & keep them moist I use a pulveriser to water them. When they have grown to nice little plant I prick out & plant into plugs to bring them on before they go out into the garden.
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@Mik_Bennett
Just a thought if you want some amazing ‘Bazoches’ lettuce, pick a few leaves and let grow, & pick again, send me a DM with your address & I will send you some.
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Brilliant idea — and cheaper than those overpriced clear plastic covers. I am now using that idea with the cling film wrapped on a frame of bent to shape fence wire for ease of watering.
Frame also good idea as stops it getting too steamy. If your cling film is tight then can get too much condensation.
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That’s a good idea. The problem I had using clingfilm was that the seedlings were often attacked by mould/fungus. The frame idea would allow some ventilation 
Cling film should be taken off when the seeds have germinated. Once germinated they need air circulation to strengthen them as well as helping stop any fungal growth.
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Sprinkling cinnamon on the soil surface also helps.
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For those that were asking about critter deterrers for lawns and gardens Lidl is now advertising an Effaroucheur Solaire, solar powered on an optional stick, intro offer at 6,99 vs 9,99. Solar powered or chargeable via USB.
8 meters coverage across an angle of 110 degrees. So 2 in your lawn back to back would cover 2/3rd of a circle around them. With flashes and ultrasound at your choice when your target group of critters has movement detected.
Now online product number 100387342 on lidl.fr or in Lidl shops Monday 24th.
Rodents and other animal deterrents programmable according to 5 program choices :
- Programme 1 : contre les pigeons, les chiens et le gibier
- Programme 2 : contre les chiens, les chats, les rongeurs, les oiseaux, les
- fouines, le gibier et les renards
- Programme 3 : contre les chiens, les chats, les rongeurs et les oiseaux
- Programme 4 : lumière clignotante
- Programme 5 : utilisation de tous les programmes simultanément
Programne 5 may, of course, also excite the neighbours?
I am so anti night time lighting in the garden as plays havoc with insects. We used to have loads of glow worms until neighbours installed massive downlighters. Now there are just a few forlorn ones in one area, trying desperately to get a mate to see their small glow against what amounts to a runway.
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Yup…could not agree with you more Jane Jones…
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Hi Jane
this is my business; landscape lighting.
I fully agree on light pollution; no need for it; if the design is well installed.
LED lamps produce hardly any UV; its the UV that attracts the insects, and hence their predators…
so all external lighting should be LED type to help with one aspect of its environmental influence.
plus im a big fan of minimal uplighting; there are so many more creative ways to illuminate planting to bring ambiance and atmosphere; without casting ‘wasted’ light into the sky and detracting from the natural light.
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Sowing update
Onions, leeks, beetroot and parsley.
The basil, turnips and lettuce have all come up.
This morning, I sowed tomatoes.
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Garlic, shallots, red onion and spring onion are all coming along nicely at the moment. The garlic will be dried and tied into strings, some cloves will be peeled and frozen whole and some cloves will be mashed and frozen ready for instant use in recipes without faffing about first.
The spring onions (White Lisbon) will be grown close together in one tyre for use in salads or planted further apart in another tyre to let the bulbs grow larger. These make fantastic pickled onions by putting them in a jar of balsamic vinegar and honey.
Not as pretty as Wozza’s garden but practical. I have been persuaded to surround the unsightly tyre garden with 2 metre fence panels.
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Sorry not updated but lots of seeds planted and going well. Will get some pics and update this week!
Quick question, my curly kale is quite impressive. Honestly I’ve not used it much as I’ve forgotten about it each time I’ve done a big curry ect 
… Now it has sprouted some flowers, which resemble broccolis. Can I strip the leaves, blanch and freeze for curries or are they all for the chooks?
Chop them off and cook them up with butter and see what they are like, maybe? Isn’t flowering what they call bolting? And bad but I’ve never quite known why