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Reasons to be cheerful 2022

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  • DovefromaboveDovefromabove Posts: 88,147
    edited April 2022
    I suspect the EADT journalist is confused, not for the first time ... my guess is that they'll be using both the CO2 and the biomass boilers ... it's not a case of either/or .... the CO2 is used to shorten the ripening time ... the biomass boilers provide the heat.  

    https://www.cato.org/blog/want-better-tomatoes-add-carbon-dioxide-pinch-salt

    Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.





  • Lizzie27Lizzie27 Posts: 12,494
    My tulips are coming out.
    North East Somerset - Clay soil over limestone
  • Allotment BoyAllotment Boy Posts: 6,774
    Not sure if I'm pleased or not, but despite the cold the Acers are unfurling their leaves. They seem to have decided "it's April  we're coming out regardless "  Hope they survive the frost. 
    AB Still learning

  • DovefromaboveDovefromabove Posts: 88,147
    I'd nearly given up on it, after the tree-fellers accidentally knocked it down and trampled all over it a few years ago ... I gave it a tidy up and a stern talking to last year ... today my Ribes odoratum/aureum is covered with golden flower buds ... thank you @nutcutlet 🙏

    And ... my mixed lettuce seedlings have made an appearance (indoors in the sunny studio, of course).   :D

    Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.





  • ObelixxObelixx Posts: 30,090
    Well done @BenCotto.  Still waiting to hear about hosting some refugees here.

    Small RTBC but I am inordinately pleased with the 3.5 kilos of limquats I have just harvested from my one small shrub.  They are now simmering to make lemon marmalade.  Smells gorgeous.
    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)."
    Plato
  • Lizzie27Lizzie27 Posts: 12,494
    Well done @BenCotto and Mrs C. 

    Lemon marmalade is delicious @Obelixx, lucky you.
    North East Somerset - Clay soil over limestone
  • Allotment BoyAllotment Boy Posts: 6,774
    Well done @BenCotto,.

    My rtbc, the first spears of Asparagus of the season,  only 3 each but lovely fresh taste.
    AB Still learning

  • UffUff Posts: 3,199
    Well done @BenCotto
    A really good endeavour.
    SW SCOTLAND but born in Derbyshire
  • LunarSeaLunarSea Posts: 1,923
    After several fruitless visits, today I finally connected with my first Ring Ouzels of the season. Yesterday I found a gathering of 30+ Golden Plovers  :)
    Clay soil - Cheshire/Derbyshire border

    I play with plants and soil and sometimes it's successful

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