Any arbtalking veg growers in da house?

[Pat Ferrett]

Cardoons:thumbup:

[sloth]

Had some last year and the year before, at around 7 or 8 ft tall they are quite impressive! I'd never had them before, must say I wasn't impressed with them as a vegetable. Let last years go to seed and passed them on to some friends who've just taken on an allotment plot this year. Incredible flowers too, but in my case very prone to blackfly

[russbushpig]

Pak choi has gone mad- but then I didn't thin it out! There's only so much stir fry one can manage...but the Guinea pigs get a treat...

[Tony Croft aka hamadryad]

Did dinner for my mates sunday, bar the chicken all came straight out the yard, went down a bomb, yummy yummy in my tummy.

 

[Goaty]

Mixed fortunes this year, a huge success is strawberries in barrels until now. The wasps have arrived. Putting out drown jar traps. My other menace is slugs. I pick them and throw them into the large pond nearby, fish love em.

[Pat Ferrett]

Mixed fortunes this year, a huge success is strawberries in barrels until now. The wasps have arrived. Putting out drown jar traps. My other menace is slugs. I pick them and throw them into the large pond nearby, fish love em.

 

Any chance the traps kill bees aswell ?

[djbobbins]

Plagued with caterpillars on the broccoli and cauliflower plants. Been squishing the eggs and caterpillars, don't want to spray with chemicals as the veg is on the plants. Any suggestions?

 

 

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[Goaty]

Any chance the traps kill bees aswell ?

 

Never known it. Bees seem to go for more wholesome food. Wasps behave like louts and get drunk. However bluebottles join the party:thumbup1:

All the trap is a jar with lid on and small holes punched in the lid (not bee size) add water and either a bit of jam or apples, until its half full. Fruit for taste/bait water for death.

 

Don't worry Pat, I have been environmental and resourcefully aware all my life.

[Pat Ferrett]

Never known it. Bees seem to go for more wholesome food. Wasps behave like louts and get drunk. However bluebottles join the party:thumbup1:

All the trap is a jar with lid on and small holes punched in the lid (not bee size) add water and either a bit of jam or apples, until its half full. Fruit for taste/bait water for death.

 

Don't worry Pat, I have been environmental and resourcefully aware all my life.

 

It wasn't a loaded question I was genuinely curious:thumbup:

 

Managed to stop the next door neighbour from cutting his lavender bush back earlier, it must of had 30 odd bees on it feeding. He said he couldnt see them without his glasses on :eek:

[unimog 72]

i grow potatoes onians shallots ect them put pigs on the veg patch overwinter when crop harvested you cant beat home grown pork