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Glenn Fletcher
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Roof-top Kitchen Gardners
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Ontario Gardeners
17 members
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The Pecking Order
93 members
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Urban Farmers
125 members
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Orchards
45 members
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- Where do you live and garden?
- YORK ENGLAND
- How long have you been growing food?
- 10-20 years
- Dream garden travel destination:
- Any walled kitchen garden.
- Favorite foods:
- Rhubarb Crumble
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What is an Allotment
As long as you attend regularly and work the soil you can grow what you wish. Both vegetables and flowers.
Indeed i used to be a member of the… Continue
Posted on November 21, 2009 at 5:34am — 2 Comments
Useful Tools
Everyone has their own favourite tool. It may be one that you use everytime you go in the garden, or it may be one that belonged to your parents that brings back memories, and is still working perfectly.
Posted on November 11, 2009 at 2:00pm — 3 Comments
Slug Boards
Most of the year and especially at this time of the year they attract slugs to the underside of the board. These slugs live in the soil and so are normally difficult to find, unless they are eating your plants.
I turn the boards over every week and dispose of the slugs that are hiding there. Sometimes there are slug eggs there… Continue
Posted on November 3, 2009 at 3:14am —
How to Ripen Tomatoes
One tip for turning green tomatoes red is to put them in a drawer with a ripe banana.
The ripe banana gives off ethylene gas which then ripens the tomatoes.
They never go as red as in the sunshine, more of a pinky red, but good enough for cooking with.
You probably all new that anyway, but its worth repeating.
Posted on October 1, 2009 at 3:16pm — 3 Comments
Castle Howard Arboretum
Posted on September 28, 2009 at 4:20pm — 6 Comments
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Comment Wall (62 comments)
- At 9:09pm on December 1, 2009,
Michelle W. Flannery said…
- Hi Glenn. I'm a little bit under the weather right now. It started as sinus, but has been hanging on for a week now, with a fully stuffed up head and coughing. I am hoping it will be gone soon, as I don't want to go into the Christmas season sick.
I understand about the tomatoes. I think yesterday was the last of our tomatoes, even though the plants are still green, but we still have a number of peppers holding on. The weather here has turned cold, but we have had no frosts as yet. Our tomatoes did really well this year. We had so many I actually grew tired of eating them, but I processed many and have them on hand now for the winter. I agree, there is nothing like a home grown tomato. It is the queen of all garden vegetables, as no other veggie seems to elicit the same anticipation and delight as a tomato! So I am sure I am only a few bland and pasty store bought tomatoes away from the anticipation of my next homegrown plot of tomatoes that I will enjoy heartily and devour endlessly until I am sick of them once again!
- At 4:20pm on November 8, 2009,
Penelope said… - "Cracked" is good.
- At 1:36am on November 7, 2009,
amna mufti said… - Hi Glenn!This is not very common but we do plant them.They need somewhat wet environment.So 300km to north from my place is a good area for its production.But it do good with us too.
- At 12:04pm on November 6, 2009,
Dave Mull said… - Those brown dogs you photographed are chocolate Labrador retrievers--similar in a lot of ways to goldens.
- At 12:02pm on November 6, 2009,
Dave Mull said…
- Thanks for the welcome, Glenn. I look forward to learning more about gardening here--it's a pasttime/obsession/whatever that is never fully learned. My dog is a Golden Retriever, not as light as most of them.
- At 5:26pm on November 2, 2009,
Penelope said…
- We've been having pleasant afternoon weather this week too. Here, a frost kills things, then it gets nice again for a while. We've had some snow, but it didn't stay. Nice that you're having such a nice time in the garden.
- At 5:46pm on October 26, 2009,
Gail Wolf said… - Hi Glenn,
Thanks for your message and your comment on my fall garden photo. It does look kind of like you described! The summer house is my husband's office, but he shares it with me. It's a fun place to go and sit quietly on the porch.
If my garden only was a tiny bit as good as yours I'd be blissful. Yes, we do have a lot of space here in this yard, because we live in the suburbs outside of Seattle and the parcels are larger (but we pay the price with poorer public transportation options). I'd like to be able to plant good things over every square foot of it, but there never seems to be enough time for all that we want to do. Next year I hope to improve some, thanks to the many things I've learned from you, Carol and others here at KGI. You're welcome to drop by any time and be a weekend gardner...just keep a good eye out for that transporter!
By the way, I've been meaning to tell you how much I liked your Harrogate photos. I first heard of this show by reading James Herriot books (I've read them all). His books are what inspired me to want to visit Yorkshire, which I hope to do some day.
Take care, Glenn.
- At 5:47pm on October 21, 2009,
Everett McDonald said… - Thanks Glenn,
I've had black currants, they're great. Ten years ago I bought some
bushes and mailed them to my brother in New Hampshire. He planted
them and his wife makes black currant preserves for me and I in return
send them Mulberry preserves.
- At 1:35am on October 21, 2009,
Salma Kamal said… - This is great.Looks like home kitchen gardening arrangment.
The tenth world flower show would be held . Yes ! This time in USA.
The 10th World Flower Show: Theme is "This Glorious Earth "
15 - 19 June 2011
Seaport World Trade Center
Boston, Massachusetts
http://www.wafausa.org/
2008 World flower Show was to be Held in Lahore (Pakistan) but unfortunately ,
had to be cancelled, at last moment.due to Terrorist threat.
- At 6:07am on October 20, 2009,
Mary Heaner said… - Hi Glenn,
I found a place in the UK that has inoculant, they say:
http://www.mr-fothergills.co.uk
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