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Nice big property you have there, and more than one poly tunnel !! The taters are really doing great. I'm going to try Christmas potatoes next year and I've never grown leeks but they're something I want to try in future.
 
Anniekay said:
Nice big property you have there, and more than one poly tunnel !! The taters are really doing great. I'm going to try Christmas potatoes next year and I've never grown leeks but they're something I want to try in future.
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Ta for having a look Annie :) Tetters bought a huge tunnel from a Nursery that was closing down, we made the cactus shop and pudding tunnel out of it and then I made a little tunnel out of the bits left over. I had to "engineer" a few bits of heiras fencing for support struts.

Use a first or second early variety of potato and plant in August, you should get some small ones by Christmas when they won't be in the shops. Mind you, the way things are going, nothing else will be in the shops soon anyway 😬

Start leeks from seed in January or Feb, they need a long growing season :)
 
I never even thought about making compost tea but now, I think I'm going to try that. Trouble is, I need a new trash can, all mine have holes in.

I got some comfrey root off a seller on Etsy, I think it was, but after 3 months, not a leaf has shown it's face. 😕 I really want to try growing it and make comfrey tea.
 
Anniekay said:
I never even thought about making compost tea but now, I think I'm going to try that. Trouble is, I need a new trash can, all mine have holes in.

I got some comfrey root off a seller on Etsy, I think it was, but after 3 months, not a leaf has shown it's face. 😕 I really want to try growing it and make comfrey tea.
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We know the feeling there, old tennant drilled holes in most of the dustbins and sawed up all the scaffold planks to make raised beds :rolleyes:

You could put a strong bin liner in one if you've got any?

You don't need Comfrey, the advantage of it is that it's deep rooted and supposedly brings up nutrients from deeper down but I think that's a load of hippy left wing nonsense that folk got from a 1980's book :cautious:

Nettles do just as good and failing that, any leafy greens will soon rot down and make a feed. It smells though, just one drop of it on you will make you smell like the bog of eternal stench forever 😁
 
Anniekay said:
I've been wanting to ask: why do you call it "the pudding tunnel"? I s it because you eat pudding in there, or make pudding in it ?
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It's where we grow pudding :)

Black and Redcurrants on the East side, Strawberries and a few Gooseberries on the West side.

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Puddings were down this year due to the amount of slugs (hence me going out to kill them every night) and a Blackbird that got through a hole in the net and ate nearly every currant before we noticed :rolleyes:

Still got about a freezer draw full of Strawberries though :)

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