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    The 11 Most Common Gardening Mistakes | Tips and Updates - BabaMail
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    not sure about sprinkling salt around my plants though...
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    • #3
      Originally posted by Baldy View Post
      not sure about sprinkling salt around my plants though...
      Maybe they're confusing slugs with Cartheginians

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      • #4
        Hmmm...I'd not be doing that either
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        • #5
          "A good rule of thumb is a 50/50 ratio of fertilizer to soil".

          So thats 1 Kilo of Growmore to 1 Kilo of soil!
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          to present to him vegetables and all beautiful flowers.- Offerings of Thutmose III to Amon-Ra (1500 BCE)

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          • #6
            Originally posted by Snadger View Post
            "A good rule of thumb is a 50/50 ratio of fertilizer to soil".

            So thats 1 Kilo of Growmore to 1 Kilo of soil!
            Indeed.

            Most plants needing watering 2 or 3 times a week - what? Really? Is that in pots, undercover, in the ground, all year round, even in the rain? Not really very helpful and liable to confuse further!

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            • #7
              Originally posted by Snadger View Post
              "A good rule of thumb is a 50/50 ratio of fertilizer to soil".

              So thats 1 Kilo of Growmore to 1 Kilo of soil!
              Yups bad advice eh Snadge . My rule of thumb is a handful(yes there's a thumb on my hand) to the square yard. Now of course that depends on the size of your hand and whether you know your imperial measurements.

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              • #8
                Originally posted by Jay-ell View Post
                Maybe they're confusing slugs with Cartheginians
                I'd take that story with a pinch of salt!
                My Majesty made for him a garden anew in order
                to present to him vegetables and all beautiful flowers.- Offerings of Thutmose III to Amon-Ra (1500 BCE)

                Diversify & prosper


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                • #9
                  Good to see it being picked clean!
                  Good discussions!
                  "Nicos, Queen of Gooooogle" and... GYO's own Miss Marple

                  Location....Normandy France

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                  • #10
                    So I start with 1 plant!
                    Hardly seems worth the effort of getting the 1.5 cubic meters of growmore for the veg bed does it. Growmore sure got it wrong when they suggest a handful per sq meter.

                    I haven't forgot the sun but getting it to stop in one place in the sky and shine on the vegetables all day is proving difficult.

                    Always worry about planting seeds it seems so critical, but in the wild they sort of grow where they fall. I never take care to plant a weed seed but they appear all the time. Doesn't seem to matter to them if they are on the surface or a foot under.

                    How can I plant too close to other plants if the idea is "stick to one vegetable or plant" ?

                    No one in the UK forgets the weather, every body talks about the weather. Sometimes I would like to forget about the weather. And there is again little I can do about it. Anyone had any success at preventing it raining?

                    Ready salted plants to deter slugs. Also if you read the title and the point it reads that A common gardening mistake is not to take care of pests. Doesn't that mean I have to be nice to them ?

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                    • #11
                      Originally posted by Baldy View Post
                      not sure about sprinkling salt around my plants though...
                      It saves adding salt to the potatoes when you boil them!

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                      • #12
                        And OK if you want to turn the bed over to asparagus?
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                        • #13
                          Goodish tips but I could to the list -

                          Don't be too eager to plant seeds too early
                          Don't grow what you won't eat.
                          Closer together might mean smaller
                          Water butts do need a clean ocaisionally else the water becomes stagnant and stinky.
                          Don't think that all your produce will look like the pictures on the packet.
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                          • #14
                            What's better than an allotment?, Answer Two Allotments
                            Be generous with water, rather than wet the surface every day, give it a good soaking twice a week if there is no rain.
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                            Read the back of the Seed Packet before doing anything!
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                            • #15
                              Bend the rules, we don't all have to grow the same
                              Experiment
                              Don't get upset if it doesn't work, try again another way.

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