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04-04-2009, 10:04 PM posted to uk.rec.gardening
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chitting potatoes
On 4/4/09 19:09, in article
, "Derek
Turner" wrote:
On Fri, 03 Apr 2009 21:05:21 +0100, Sacha wrote:
On 3/4/09 20:44, in article
, "Ophelia"
wrote:
Derek Turner wrote:
On Fri, 03 Apr 2009 20:12:29 +0200, David in Normandy wrote:
Mine are already up! They are all around an inch or two above the
surface of the soil. I'm just hoping there aren't any really hard
frosts.
Same here, but mine are covered by three or four inches of vraic so
shouldn't suffer even if do get a late frost.
Vraic?
Bladder wrack seaweed. Old Norman French/Jersey term for that type of
seaweed. It's a first class fertiliser/ground improver.
And it's free! And you can collect it by the bin-load from the concrete
at Petit Port after a spring tide, especially with a westerly.
Friends of mine had a trailer they hitched onto the back of their Mini, just
for this purpose. ;-)
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