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I'm not sure about how to do that.

Glad you liked it. Hope you enjoy your onions

I put them in a vice and use a saw to cut them. I've also found that making 2 saw cuts and taking about a 5mm strip out makes them easier to get on but still have the gripping power. The rounded off bits at the end I used my tinsnips which are great - I happen to also play around with jewellery so I had these to hand, I expect if you are using a small hand saw you could also "nibble" at the edges to make them roundish.

@@jasons-jungle thanks very much I'll give it a go!

Thank you

They don't give me a massive bulb - it splits into smaller ones instead. The best use I have for then is spring onion sets - as the mother clump grown and produces more top sets I plant out the top sets and they quickly give a crop of scallions.

Thanks, they are still working strong.

Thanks - and it's filling up again this year.

Yep, that's basically what I thought. I said that it was marketed towards more depleted soil.

Nope the hose clips are still going strong. The cover is shredded though (or more specifically it's been turned to a net where all the little plastic bits were knocked out by the rain).

As I'm not a canning expert I like to follow instructions that have been tested to be safe. The potatoes might cook, but that might take out some of the heat meaning that it doesn't get hot enough for long enough to kill off the botulism spoors. As botulism is a soil dwelling bacteria and potatoes are a root veg there's a good chance that if its around they may have come into touch with it. OK, they are peeled and washed but that doesn't mean that the spoors couldn't have transferred to them when prepping them.

Glad you liked it. I think mine have died off - cant see them this year and they are usually up by now.

@@jasons-jungle That's a shame, I hope they're just late blooming this year. I planted mine and put 12 inches of leaf mulch on top for the winter. The plant is native to the Mediterranean and don't like the freezing temps that I get here in central USA.

@@karabean They grow like weeds in places in the UK - so much so that they are specifically mentioned in legislation as an invasive species

@@jasons-jungleThey grow wild here in northeast London, having escaped from gardens near the forest. Have yours come up by now? That should have unless the frost killed them?

@@wemuk5170 Only a couple of plants came up - over harvesting probably. I think my mam harvested almost all the bulbs and forgot to leave some in. I'll give it a year and I should have enough bulbs to replant from the plants that were left.

Well, the clamps are free and that has benefits for me. they are still going strong from the first batch. Need to make more hoops to combat the onion fly now.

Your welcome, hope that the video was helpful

Well they are already out

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Thanks, i was happy at the size of the unknowns. With all the rain we've been having, I might have to borrow a diving suit and harvest the rest.

@@jasons-jungle Haha - watercress, watermelon, water chestnut - what next, water potatoes LOL?

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@@jasons-jungle When I had a plot at DD allotments I grew a really good crop of PFA. Mine were grown in well mucked ground and the foliage grew 5 foot high. I had to stake the foliage in the end to stop it topplig over..I've never been able to grow such a good crop since.

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I was wondering the same myself, it seems so easy to over do them in the blanching. I'll have to do a read up of raw packing potatoes

I also wonder if waxy potatoes would do any better than floury potatoes.

@@jasons-jungle I'm thinking the same for my pickled potatoes which never store for more than 3 months.

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It's so exciting I could crush a grape. Few more turning red now.

Thanks, you too!

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Yeah, making sure that the seat still works.😁

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I'm glad that it's been useful

I discovered one surviving Tree Cabbage plant that the pigeons havent destroyed, not sure about the kale, those feathered pest are darned efficient at strip[ping brassicas. Of course that plant could be gone by tomorrow.

Basically what I said, although I missed out implicitly saying that they have live offspring instead of laying eggs like other insects. And NO MALES ARE NEEDED!!

Thanks, I'm further ahead this year than I have ever been - down to my growtent in the garage which let me start my toms off at the end of February this year.

Thanks. Those clamps are simple but efficient

We are bothwell thanks. The gooseberry cordons are romping away as is my Boskoop Glory grape. Hope you hang around and watch the other videos.

Thanks, got to try out different ideas

Yeah, Until late May I always worry about a snap frost getting my plants. I need to start taking my toms down to the green house but worrying if they'll catch cold

Its all about sharing ideas. Still working after quite a while

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I got a 3m wide roll of netting off ebay. If you have any construction work in your area using scaffold, you can ask them what they do with the netting and ask if you could have it. Often they will bin it but they may let you have it for free of for a small charge. I have green netting that came with my plot and blue netting which I bought (because i think i get better results with blue)

I used garlic powered as it was available in a large tub as a food supplement from equine supplies

I've been hit and miss with melons - with more misses than hits. I had a couple of minnesota midgets a couple of years ago, which were tasty, but I've not had any success with watermelons yet.

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As an organic fertiliser, this would be ok, but it does look as if they've just slapped on the "plant based" badge and hoped no one would notice.

yep exactly, interesting use of asterisks lol

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Tnank you

The seabirds that produce Guano are fish eaters. With vegans they can't use anything produced by animals, even plant eating animals, so can't use any animal manures

@@jasons-jungle ahhh yes I see

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Eeee! They’re right con artists,aren’t they.

They would flower late spring early summer. I don't have them now - I use a combination od regular spring onions and walking onions to cover my scallion needs through the year

@@jasons-jungle thank you, that’s what I would have expected. No idea what mine are doing.

Just sowed another batch yesterday, bush tomatoes this time

Thank you.