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Hill Rise Allotment Association: Grandpa’s theory
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Hill Rise Allotment Association. St Ives Gardening Club. Remember when for tea at night, it was meat and spuds to start,. With maybe carrots, cauli and some peas, but nothing a la Carte. Then for pudding there’d be custard or some jelly with ice cream,. But rarely anything with chocolate or plum pudding it would seem. And then on chilly winter nights, there’d be Mum’s veggie soup,. Or porridge on those frosty morns that gleefully we’d scoop. But how the times have changed from those homely meals a treat,.
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Hill Rise Allotment Association: Using green waste compost
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Hill Rise Allotment Association. St Ives Gardening Club. Using green waste compost. However there are a few things which need to be known, if you are to avoid problems using green waste compost on the allotment or in the garden. In short, the rules are:. Don't try germinating seeds directly in it. Mix it well with soil , no more than one third green waste compost to two thirds. Soil, before growing plants in it. That really is all you need to know, but here is a bit more technical information. Well, that...
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Hill Rise Allotment Association: Welcome to the Spring 2011 newsletter
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Hill Rise Allotment Association. St Ives Gardening Club. Welcome to the Spring 2011 newsletter. It is important that our membership is as strong as possible, because it means we have a more powerful voice when negotiating with the council, and this can also extend to comments and views on topics such as St Ives in Bloom and maintenance of parks and other areas in the town. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom). Veg gardening iPad apps. Flower and Produce Show. Video-build a cheap cloche.
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Hill Rise Allotment Association: Stag beetle
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Hill Rise Allotment Association. St Ives Gardening Club. The Stag Beetle, or Lucanus Cervus to be precise, is Britain's largest ground living beetle and can reach 8cm in length. The 'antlers' found on the male resemble those of a stag deer, hence their name. Stag beetles are an endangered species in Northern Europe, and indeed the world, and are listed as a Nationally Scarce Priority Species. Many local groups of the Wildlife Trust even offer stag beetle adoption certificates for £10 which come with...
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Hill Rise Allotment Association: Bramley apples
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Hill Rise Allotment Association. St Ives Gardening Club. As the apple trees are all flowering now, with the lack of frost (touch wood.) fruit set should be good. Here are a few snippets about one of the most popular apples to get you in the mood for the season ahead. Ten facts about Bramley apples. In 2010 in Britain about 388 million Bramley apples were grown. In that year we consumed just under 25,000 tonnes of fresh Bramley apples. Bramley apple sales reach their peak in February. Keep up to date with...
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Hill Rise Allotment Association: Vegetable gardening iPad apps
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Hill Rise Allotment Association. St Ives Gardening Club. Vegetable gardening iPad apps. Over Christmas I decided to treat myself to an iPad and as the other half says ‘its been surgically attached to me ever since’. As an avid fan of the Apple Mac and not being able to justify buying an iPhone as I only use £10 of credit every 6 months, I had been wanting an iPad for ages and now I have one. So now I’ve exhausted most of the free games – my favourite is. My Favourite iPad Veg Garden App has to be:. The a...
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Hill Rise Allotment Association: True tales - ‘The Chicken’
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Hill Rise Allotment Association. St Ives Gardening Club. True tales - ‘The Chicken’. As I was walking down Stanton Street early one Sunday morning I saw a chicken a few yards ahead of me. I was walking faster than the chicken so I gradually caught up. By the time we approached Eighteenth Avenue I was close behind. True Tales of American Life'. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom). Veg gardening iPad apps. Flower and Produce Show. Video-build a cheap cloche. Using green waste compost. Recommended reading ;0).
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Hill Rise Allotment Association: Comfrey fertiliser
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Hill Rise Allotment Association. St Ives Gardening Club. You may remember the recipe for nettle fertiliser. From the Summer 2010 newsletter. Here’s another useful plant you may have been cursing for its vigour as you hacked it down once again. And quite apart from its usefulness, it’s also a very attractive plant to have growing around your plot. If your plant produces purple flowers then you have the “Bocking 14” cultivar of Russian Comfrey ( Symphytum x uplandicum. Mature plants can be harvested up to ...
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Hill Rise Allotment Association: Weather update 2011
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Hill Rise Allotment Association. St Ives Gardening Club. March was an unusually dry month. The average rainfall over England and Wales is normally about 73 mm (2.9 in) but this March only 25 mm was recorded. That makes it the driest March across England and Wales since 1990, and probably the seventh driest March in the past 100 years. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom). Veg gardening iPad apps. Flower and Produce Show. Video-build a cheap cloche. Using green waste compost. Recommended reading ;0). Email ...
