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Kitty
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Can we have a gardening website? I have decided to have a vegetable patch this year and the tomatoe and broad beans have already been sown and are coming up. The compost is looking great and I can't wait for the runner beans, courgettes, cut and come again spinach, radishes and onions! It would be great to have a forum to discuss things as I know I will have loads of unanswered questions soon...
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Stanley
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Posted - 17/05/2010 : 05:03
Your right Maz, actually warm rain would be the best tonic, we are very dry....
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Sue
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Posted - 17/05/2010 : 13:10
Has anyone grown Jeruslaem artichoke. I bought three at the supermarket today for 23 centimes. They had healthy buds on them so I have planted them . The internet says you can plant your sprouting veg, and expect 3 KG per plant
Sue
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tripps
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Posted - 17/05/2010 : 14:07
I did - a long time ago. Don't bother would be my advice. Not much left after you have peeld them, and not too good to eat at that. Put more graphically here!
The inulin is not well digested by some people, leading in some cases to flatulence and gastric pain. Gerard's Herbal, printed in 1621, quotes the English planter John Goodyer on Jerusalem artichokes:hich way soever they be dressed and eaten, they stir and cause a filthy loathsome stinking wind within the body, thereby causing the belly to be pained and tormented, and are a meat more fit for swine than men." [5] (Wikipedia)
That said - they grow fast and high, and are usefull to hide your wheeled bins or compost heap.
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Stanley
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Posted - 17/05/2010 : 16:59
Well, that's sorted them out! I know that herns thrive in poor soil but the 'tp soil' they put in my front garden after the refurbishment was sub-soil so I feed it each year. I scattered a bag of compst over it and gave it a generous top-dressing of meat, fish and bone meal and another dressing of National Growmore just to make sure it got the message. Now I want rain and some warm nights!
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Sue
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Posted - 17/05/2010 : 17:20
OOH perhaps not a good idea. Well I have planted them now so we will see how they go aND WHAT THEY TASTE LIKE, BUT i AM NOT SURE OF THE AFTER EFFECTS!!!! ( Sorry hit caps lock key accidently )
Sue
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Stanley
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Posted - 18/05/2010 : 06:49
They aren't as bad as John Goodyer suggests Sue. If you never try anything you don't learn.
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tripps
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Posted - 18/05/2010 : 08:24
Chacun a son gout 
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Stanley
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Posted - 18/05/2010 : 17:27
One man's fish is another man's poisson.
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Tizer
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Posted - 18/05/2010 : 20:15
It's not just the after-effects of artichokes Sue, it's the hard work cleaning them up for cooking too! There was a forest of them at the bottom of my Dad's garden when he moved into the house and we didn't know what they were at first. As tripps says, they are good at hiding everything - you could lose children among them. Then we found out and tried them, but it was very fiddly because they have so many nooks and crannies, not like a nice smooth potato! But your French ones might be in a different class of course!
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Stanley
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Posted - 19/05/2010 : 16:55
Daughter Susna inspected the herbs today and gave me full marks. She likes the way the ladsove is recovering from my radical pruning, says it is better than hers.
Stanley Challenger Graham
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Sue
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Posted - 19/05/2010 : 20:38
I'll let you know one way or another. Now another quation, how do I harvest horseradish and still keep the plant . Do I lift the root , plit and replace or what?
Sue
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Bradders
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Posted - 19/05/2010 : 22:33
Is it me ...... or has something happened to the way words are transmitted to this site.....( have you been inventing a new languge..Ha! ....whilest I wasn't lockinge) ?
Susna?
Quation?
Plit?....What's going on .....Haha !
PS I left out Ladsove , because I have really never heard of that before and I'm thinking that it is therefore probably correct
Edited by - Bradders on 19/05/2010 10:39:26 PM
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Stanley
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Posted - 20/05/2010 : 06:53
Also called Southern Wood.
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Sue
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Posted - 20/05/2010 : 08:41
I had southern wood at home but it has died after 15 years . I love it but have been unable to get any more, any chance of a cuttin or two Stanley ? I would like it in my herb patch in France too!
Sue
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Stanley
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Posted - 21/05/2010 : 08:31
Pop in later this year when it has grown some new shoots and you're welcome. It's a very vigorous stock, must be, I shear it off at cround level almost each year and it comes back better than ever.
Stanley Challenger Graham
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