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Alternatively, get the Number 40 bus from High Wycombe to Thame (Kingston Blount point to point journey) and watch the red Kites at all sorts of locations. Stop at the Cherry Tree pub in Kingston Blount and have lunch then get the bus back and watch the Red Kites again. Both are wonderful
Certainly agree about the Red Kites, my sister lives not far away in Marlow and many a pleasant afternoon has been spent sitting in her back garden, putting the world to rights and watching those elegant birds soaring overhead.
Although the locals cannot allow their pet rabbits to roam freely in their back gardens!!!!
I used to holiday on the Island of Crete, and always used to feel that I had gone back to biblical times; always expected to walk round a corner and see a lion…..in the afternoon I used to walk up into the hills via the orange and lemon groves, because two birds of prey [never found out what they were] used to circle in the sky above me. last year, being stuck in the flat in Northumberland because of the rain I saw a stoat outside the kitchen window and watched it for ages; is there anything more beautiful than a buddlea [sp] bush covered in peacock butterflies? However, I’ve just got home to hear that my son in law and his friends were attacked with a brick by a gang of hoodies at the end of their road on Friday night; two of them were badly hurt around the head but thankfully no lasting damage. Back in the real world [ouch].
Apart from all the drugs you lot seem to be taking/ smoking, does anyone have any other past times other than this forum or horses?
It doesn’t matter if your in mid life stuff or not, it is good to get away from all the everyday stuff that we do.
I have recently started an origami course and my teacher says that i am so advanced in it, i could be in the next origami olympic team to travel to Canada. If you have Sky tv you could see me!
Its only available on paper view though;)Lollys Mate
vgDrone, do you know anything about companion planting (for veggies). I brought this book in a second-hand bookshop about a year ago on the subject. It was printed back in the 40’s and really interesting – but I can’t find it.
Drone, do you know anything about companion planting (for veggies).
A little, though I’m sceptical that there’s actually much truth in it. Googling ‘companion planting’ will educate and confuse.
The key to healthy crops is to grow as many different types of veg as possible and intercrop them with flowers along the lines of Geoff Hamilton’s ‘Ornamental Kitchen Garden’. Looks attractive too.
Carrots should be grown with onions/leeks/garlic as the smell of the latter deter carrot fly. That does work.
Marigolds do indeed deter black fly and are said to also deter soil-borne pests so should be grown amongst root crops. Marigolds are actually the flower
par excellence
to intercrop with veg. Think it must be something to do with the peculiar medicinal aroma they emanate.
Of more importance IMO is a four-year cycle of crop rotation. Potatoes, followed by root crops, followed by beans/peas, followed by brassicas and then back to potatoes. Salad crops and odds ‘n’ sods can be slotted in wherever there’s space.
Splitting your garden into four definable sections makes the job of rotation easier.
Different crops make different demands on the soil and attract different pests so a crop rotation maintains the overall fertility of the soil and prevents any one pest building up too much.
half for you, half for nature
– grow more than you’ll need and you’ll have enough
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I went to Cragside in Northumberland last week, and noticed as I was walking round the gardens that the biggest marigolds that I had ever seen had been planted outside the greenhouse where they grew the fruit; oranges, pears etc. Also associate dahlias with cottage gardens, so wondered if they were useful in some way [took lots of photos of dahlias, which worried me, because I never used to like them and now I do, and I never used to take photos of flowers before; old age, I think]. They had a rabbit proof fence around the garden, but can’t understand why the rabbits can’t just tunnel underneath.
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