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  • DovefromaboveDovefromabove Posts: 88,147
    Fairygirl said:
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    Although -  I am intrigued by the narrow paragraphs... :D

    Perhaps they’re in metric when they should be in imperial … 🤔 

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





  • B3B3 Posts: 27,505
    edited February 2022
    I'm wondering whether perhaps he hails from Birmingham🤔
    Mornington Crescent 🏆
    In London. Keen but lazy.
  • LiriodendronLiriodendron Posts: 8,328
    Now there's a thought, @B3 ...
    Since 2019 I've lived in east Clare, in the west of Ireland.
  • Balgay.HillBalgay.Hill Posts: 1,089
    war garden 572 said:


    7 inches is 18 cm it is and easy mistake to make in
    a place like uk that uses  metric and the British
    imperial system
    7 inches is actually 17.78 cm, but it's an easy mistake to make if accuracy isn't important to you.
    Sunny Dundee
  • DovefromaboveDovefromabove Posts: 88,147
    B3 said:
    I'm wondering whether perhaps he hails from Birmingham🤔
    Mornington Crescent 🏆
    No not this one … not even Birmingham Alabama. 😂 

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





  • war garden 572war garden 572 Posts: 664

    https://archive.org/details/goodgardeninggui0000lark/page/178/mode/1up
    here is uk source that proves my point that corn can be
    planted 12-15 in apart by well know UK gardener and author
    joy larkcom
  • Hostafan1Hostafan1 Posts: 34,889
    war garden 572 said:

    https://archive.org/details/goodgardeninggui0000lark/page/178/mode/1up
    here is uk source that proves my point that corn can be
    planted 12-15 in apart by well know UK gardener and author
    joy larkcom
    so not the 7 inches you earlier advocated?
    Devon.
  • Hostafan1Hostafan1 Posts: 34,889
    war garden 572 said:
    sorry to inform you but you and most of uk are the victims
    of a measurement conversion error.  for corn spacing
    between plants in rows  should be 18 cm not 18 inches
    and 18 in between row 45 cm or 7 in between plants in
     row and 18 in between rows if you row planting.  

    also i was suggesting people in uk grow early varieties

    Devon.
  • DovefromaboveDovefromabove Posts: 88,147
    war garden 572 said:
    ... also i was suggesting people in uk grow early varieties
    Can you show me where you suggested this please?  I've searched back and forth and cannot find this.  

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





  • FairygirlFairygirl Posts: 55,117
    This sounds like a right load of ol' sh*te to me now  :D
    It's a place where beautiful isn't enough of a word....



    I live in west central Scotland - not where that photo is...
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