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Limousin Lass

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  1. [quote user="Barbel Bob"]

    [:'(] I have just spent 7 days clearing two large flower borders of a weed i have since found to be called lesser celandine, it has totally invaded my garden growing also in my grass!!!! I have removed them by hand getting rid of the roots also...I have chosen not to use weed killer this time in the borders but do not want to repeat the last 7 days EVER AGAIN! so want to hear about your experiences of this weed!!![/quote]

    I hate to tell you this but unless you have cleared the ground of every miniscule bulblet that lesser celandine reproduce from you are going to have an on going problem with this weed. Removing the weeds by hand dislodges the bulblets and also digging over the area brings dormant bulblets closer to the surface where they then germinate.  The only solution I found was to use a good weedkiller over a 2 year period.  Ist year treat with weed killer, then cover with weed suppressant, 2nd year uncover and treat new growth with weed killer.  After that I still had the odd ones coming up that I removed with a border trowel complete with the ball of soil.

    Don't put any of the weed on the compost heap you will just spread the problem when you use the compost.

     

  2. Not sure if this of any use, just over the border in Haute Vienne.

    Samedi 15 et dimanche 16 novembre

    Journées des pépiniéristes à Châlus
    Les deux jours : exposition-vente arbres, arbustes, plantes vivaces, outillage de jardin, artisanats, métiers de bouche, automobile...
    Vente de câtaignes blanchies et de cidre.
    Some friends bought all their fruit trees from one of the stalls last year and they have grown really well.

     

  3. I don't very often post but come on to the Forum most days to read what everyone is up to and was pleased to see Chris posting again the other day. So sorry to hear he fell off the wagon but at least he has the sense to know when he needs help, I wish him well and hope to see him back here soon.

    Do you know what sort of books he is looking for.  I have about 1000 up in the attic so am sure I could find something for him.

  4. Sunday night the top of my foot started itching, woke up in the early hours of Monday in pain, my foot felt and looked as though it had been scalded, complete with a big (about the size of a 2 Euro coin) fluid filled blister.  What on earth could have bitten me to have caused this?
  5. Yesterday I put some chicken portions into marinade ready for some friends who were supposed to be coming for lunch today but had a phone call late last night cancelling as they have to fly back to UK rather urgently.  The marinades are oil based with various herbs and spices (made 4 different types), we will have some of them for lunch but can I freeze the remainder in their raw state in the marinade or should I cook and then freeze?
  6. A large swathe of the forest on the hill opposite our house has already been cut down and they are still cutting, the sound of chain saws all day every day, seven days a week, is bad enough but the plaintive cry of some kind of raptor (I think they are Buzzards) as they circle overhead  is even worse, they circle for a couple of days and then they disappear, four pairs so far.

    Why do they have to cut all of this forest down now, why couldn't they wait a few months?

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