Bio , hello , autumn Raspberries , cut mine down and now burnt , have none this year but summer raspberries , so many
Cow horn , well have heard of it but no longer sure what for ?
Have started major tidy up of allotment
Will have to think about broad beans , garlic , shallots & winter onions very soon Picked a celeriac , very pleased with size
Allotment cats 🐈⬛ are doing there job , killing rats 🐀 , found a freshly killed , half eaten one on plot this week , must have disturbed them , they are very wary of people coming from the streets of Nottingham
Message from my cats to allotment 🐱 cats...Well done!! Planted birthday present 🎁 from me to me 🎈 one very sturdy greengage Reine Claude d'Oullins and popped my two baby conifers bought for an euro each a couple of months back out of giant pots and into lawn. They had changed from miserable specimens into stocky little bushes (not leylandii..I checked!) Wind and rain has hindered alot of jobs but when the sun comes out there is still enough strength in it to command me outside weeding and mowing and then relaxing with a cup of tea at the garden table. Normally we would have put the furniture indoors by now. No gardening recommended yesterday 14th November before 10.45am as Moon apogée. And today being a Leaf Day blanching Chicory/Scarole and Celery not on my agenda..just too foul outside! 16/17/18th November are Fruit & Seed Days with Moon in front of Leo so yes Obelixx plant those Apple Trees. You can also take Fig Cuttings now and earth up Broad Beans to prevent them from Keeling over in these winds. 19/20/31st November are Root Days. In the South or sheltered spot, plant Shallots and White or Violet Garlic. Lift some Root Vegetables to eat as these are good days for maximum flavour. GWRS. If you look inside a cow horn you will notice the spiral pattern of the bone. It is said that this spiral attracts magnetic energy from the Moon and constellations and by placing fresh cow manure inside and burying the horn it generates these forces into the core, thus creating a condensed pack of nourishing fertilizer that you can pull out in small chunks in the Spring and pop into pots/seed trays and nursery beds to create an extra growing booster. The original thinking by Steiner was that the cow was seen by early man as a source of nourishment and a use could be found for all parts (bones for tools/skin for leather and clothing /dung for fires and fertilizer etc) because the horn would appear to have come from nowhere out of the cow's head towards the stars, then turning towards the earth, this part of the body was held in high esteem and worshipped. Obviously our thinking has moved forward, but there is still a wide held belief in biodynamic circles that energy forces do change the structure of the fresh manure, concentrating it's goodness, and my mother swore by it and buried a horn religiously every Autumn. I have just carried on the habit really, but the jet black little dung balls that result certainly do pack a punch in my Spring growing and seedlings have been streaks ahead and healthier than their compatriots grown without it. Happy Gardening.
I am sure I saw somewhere, that you take the material from the horn and dulute it into a spray to act as a general tonic, for plants and soil. As I don't have access to horn or cow manure I've never tried it.
Yes Allotment Boy you can dilute and spray on a ratio of 10/1..(10 parts rainwater 1 part dung) Also if you have no access to horn or cow manure..Buy Bonemeal and Dried Manure (preferably with Seaweed for maximum effect) Pellets. Just check labelling suitable for Organic gardening, such labelling should ensure no antibiotics in content. Tree Surgeon busy removing fallen Silver Birch at the moment...lots of scratching of head and cigarette smoking...typical French workman! So glad I managed to mow lawn Monday. High winds today again.
No tree planting today. Back from a thorough physio session and it is persisting down and we are waiting for an Orange engineer to come and connect us up to fibre optics so can't disappear down the back of the plot. Never mind, tomorrow pm will do just as well, or Friday.
We have a poplar I would love to fall over so I can get rid. Smack in the middle of our plot and sucking up loads of moisture whilst being neither decorative nor useful. OH thinks he likes it.
Vendée - 20kms from Atlantic coast.
"The price good men (and women) pay for indifference to public affairs is to be ruled by evil men (and women)."
Last update should have read 19/20/21st November Root Days not 31st. Sorry just spotted it. This weather is beginning to annoy me, but the tree surgeon did take down and cut up the Silver Birch that fell down on our boundary hedge. We don't have a fire so my neighbour took the logs and I have been snapping off the smaller twigs to cover seeds and seedlings in the raised beds next season and some thicker branches that I could snap for Pea Sticks thus saving spending out on grills or more bamboo canes. I snap old rotting Bamboo canes into lengths suitable for plant markers especially good for marking out where bulbs are and hostas. This means I don't stab myself in the eye when I bend down without thinking to prune or weed! 22/23rd November Flower Days New Moon 🌚 9.57pm on 23rd. No gardening recommended after 10.15am on 22nd as noeud descending. Prune Shrub Roses hard and cut down spent perenials. If not diseased, chop up prunings and pop them down as base for new compost heap. Don't be tempted to chop down grasses yet or hardy plants. They make great nesting places for mice/voles and insects, also they are then protected from any hard frosts by the upper foliage. 24/25th November Moon in front of Scorpio ♏ so Leaf Days If you haven't done already start forcing your Chicory. If you had plans to install Climbing Ivy now is the time to plant it against a wall.Finish planting out Savoy Cabbage. 26/27th November I wasn't going to mention no gardening recommended on 26th before 5.40am as Moon Périgée, but some of you might be out there with a torch!! Fruit 🍑 Days again and Moon in front of Sagittarius...any fellow ♐ Sagittarians out there? In milder regions sow Broad Beans and Round as opposed to Wrinkled Peas. If you want to try growing your own Rootstocks scratch apple or pear pips and plant them in pots. 28/29th November Root Days Check harvested potatoes and rub off any shoots. There's still a mouse somewhere in my garage as found fresh toothmarks on an apple yesterday. 30th November last Flower 🌹 Day this month. Turn your attention to indoor plants, wipe their leaves and give them a warm bath in preference avoid high limescale water, heat up some rainwater instead. Let the pots drain well then pop them back in place. If your buying new plants for the house with Christmas in mind, check the roots aren't already too tangled (if so repot them) and give them a bath too if they have dry soil top or bottom. Speak soon...off to wake up cats to start 🐱 work in garage! Happy Gardening!
Sagittarian here @biofreak. I've managed to put a bone or disk out in my spine and have a trapped nerve. Sleepless night thanks to horrendous pain. Physio this am for the knee, in theory, and he kindly gave me a good massage and a tweak so things are a bit easier but I'll need more of that before I can do any gardening.
As it happens we've been very wet and blustery here so lurking indoors is fine but I hope to be fit enough by Saturday to get those apple trees planted. I have a new amelanchier to collect tomorrow. Not sure whether to plant it on a leaves, flowers or fruit day as I"ve bought it for all three.
I've been using variegated ivy as ground cover in one dry, partially shaded bed and it was doing very well but was fried to a crisp this summer.
Managed to get some Stuttgart onion sets in on Saturday but still have the garlic to plant when weather and back permit.
Vendée - 20kms from Atlantic coast.
"The price good men (and women) pay for indifference to public affairs is to be ruled by evil men (and women)."
Oh dear Obelixx I hope things get easier for you soon. Nothing worse than pain. O/H completely out of action due to Pleurisy now on morphine for lung pain. My hip seems OK..the more I exercise the better it is but ladders are a definite 'no no'! Luckily no climbing foreseen at the moment. Must get my garlic in too, but just do wet..not risking shallots and onions until after Christmas, lost too many due to wet conditions. Biodynamic tip, grow onions and shallots on ridges to avoid rot. As I have raised beds not easy. I have put lots of sand in compost mix and have to admit that that has helped but doing a Spring planting instead, and may not bother with shallots at all next season. Still lifting non woody beetroot. Found Choggia the best one this year. Excellent size and do not go woody. Any recommendations for new varieties to try?
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Cow horn , well have heard of it but no longer sure what for ?
Will have to think about broad beans , garlic , shallots & winter onions very soon
Picked a celeriac , very pleased with size
Allotment cats 🐈⬛ are doing there job , killing rats 🐀 , found a freshly killed , half eaten one on plot this week , must have disturbed them , they are very wary of people coming from the streets of Nottingham
No gardening recommended yesterday 14th November before 10.45am as Moon apogée. And today being a Leaf Day blanching Chicory/Scarole and Celery not on my agenda..just too foul outside!
16/17/18th November are Fruit & Seed Days with Moon in front of Leo so yes Obelixx plant those Apple Trees. You can also take Fig Cuttings now and earth up Broad Beans to prevent them from Keeling over in these winds.
19/20/31st November are Root Days. In the South or sheltered spot, plant Shallots and White or Violet Garlic. Lift some Root Vegetables to eat as these are good days for maximum flavour.
GWRS. If you look inside a cow horn you will notice the spiral pattern of the bone. It is said that this spiral attracts magnetic energy from the Moon and constellations and by placing fresh cow manure inside and burying the horn it generates these forces into the core, thus creating a condensed pack of nourishing fertilizer that you can pull out in small chunks in the Spring and pop into pots/seed trays and nursery beds to create an extra growing booster. The original thinking by Steiner was that the cow was seen by early man as a source of nourishment and a use could be found for all parts (bones for tools/skin for leather and clothing /dung for fires and fertilizer etc) because the horn would appear to have come from nowhere out of the cow's head towards the stars, then turning towards the earth, this part of the body was held in high esteem and worshipped. Obviously our thinking has moved forward, but there is still a wide held belief in biodynamic circles that energy forces do change the structure of the fresh manure, concentrating it's goodness, and my mother swore by it and buried a horn religiously every Autumn. I have just carried on the habit really, but the jet black little dung balls that result certainly do pack a punch in my Spring growing and seedlings have been streaks ahead and healthier than their compatriots grown without it.
Happy Gardening.
Also if you have no access to horn or cow manure..Buy Bonemeal and Dried Manure (preferably with Seaweed for maximum effect) Pellets. Just check labelling suitable for Organic gardening, such labelling should ensure no antibiotics in content.
Tree Surgeon busy removing fallen Silver Birch at the moment...lots of scratching of head and cigarette smoking...typical French workman! So glad I managed to mow lawn Monday. High winds today again.
We have a poplar I would love to fall over so I can get rid. Smack in the middle of our plot and sucking up loads of moisture whilst being neither decorative nor useful. OH thinks he likes it.
Last update should have read 19/20/21st November Root Days not 31st. Sorry just spotted it.
This weather is beginning to annoy me, but the tree surgeon did take down and cut up the Silver Birch that fell down on our boundary hedge. We don't have a fire so my neighbour took the logs and I have been snapping off the smaller twigs to cover seeds and seedlings in the raised beds next season and some thicker branches that I could snap for Pea Sticks thus saving spending out on grills or more bamboo canes. I snap old rotting Bamboo canes into lengths suitable for plant markers especially good for marking out where bulbs are and hostas. This means I don't stab myself in the eye when I bend down without thinking to prune or weed!
22/23rd November Flower Days New Moon 🌚 9.57pm on 23rd.
No gardening recommended after 10.15am on 22nd as noeud descending. Prune Shrub Roses hard and cut down spent perenials. If not diseased, chop up prunings and pop them down as base for new compost heap. Don't be tempted to chop down grasses yet or hardy plants. They make great nesting places for mice/voles and insects, also they are then protected from any hard frosts by the upper foliage.
24/25th November Moon in front of Scorpio ♏ so Leaf Days If you haven't done already start forcing your Chicory. If you had plans to install Climbing Ivy now is the time to plant it against a wall.Finish planting out Savoy Cabbage.
26/27th November I wasn't going to mention no gardening recommended on 26th before 5.40am as Moon Périgée, but some of you might be out there with a torch!! Fruit 🍑 Days again and Moon in front of Sagittarius...any fellow ♐ Sagittarians out there? In milder regions sow Broad Beans and Round as opposed to Wrinkled Peas. If you want to try growing your own Rootstocks scratch apple or pear pips and plant them in pots.
28/29th November Root Days Check harvested potatoes and rub off any shoots. There's still a mouse somewhere in my garage as found fresh toothmarks on an apple yesterday.
30th November last Flower 🌹 Day this month. Turn your attention to indoor plants, wipe their leaves and give them a warm bath in preference avoid high limescale water, heat up some rainwater instead. Let the pots drain well then pop them back in place. If your buying new plants for the house with Christmas in mind, check the roots aren't already too tangled (if so repot them) and give them a bath too if they have dry soil top or bottom.
Speak soon...off to wake up cats to start 🐱 work in garage!
Happy Gardening!
Currently got several Christmas Catus flowering at moment which is a bit early
Got my chain saw out on Monday but I was cutting up pallets for our fire 🔥
As it happens we've been very wet and blustery here so lurking indoors is fine but I hope to be fit enough by Saturday to get those apple trees planted. I have a new amelanchier to collect tomorrow. Not sure whether to plant it on a leaves, flowers or fruit day as I"ve bought it for all three.
I've been using variegated ivy as ground cover in one dry, partially shaded bed and it was doing very well but was fried to a crisp this summer.
Managed to get some Stuttgart onion sets in on Saturday but still have the garlic to plant when weather and back permit.