that is like saying the pope is a bit catholicl kept this lowline heifer after she didn't calve last year ,paid off because she's getting an udder now, bit worried because she's a bit fat.
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Farmer Roy's Random Thoughts - I never said it was easy.
- Thread starter Farmer Roy
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- Location
- Owaka, New Zealand
I'd say she is more than 20% fat and more than 20% pregnant, too ?
- Location
- Near Beeston Castle
Cornish Calcified Seaweed always claimed the same thing.
- Location
- Cornwall
Well, I'm just saying its lovely stuff, spreads well (very little dust), has a reasonable NV, takes longer to work but lasts longer than lime, and stock seem to enjoy the grass after. ?
And CCS is now terribly illegal. I think you can still buy over priced French stuff that has been "dredged responsibly so as not to destroy" the pretty unique habitat it provides, which is like saying Roy's open cast coal mine has been "opened up responsibly so as not to destroy the habitat" that once sat where the hole is. It's an environmentally horrendous product.
The calcified seaweed beds in the Fal estuary are now tiny but recovering. I was lucky enough to hitch a ride on a Camborne School of Mines survey trip to study them a few years ago when I was thinking of doing an MSc with them. Quite interesting.
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- Location
- Near Beeston Castle
I wasn't disputing what you said, it just brought to mind the sales pitch of the CCS. I often read the adverts and thought it sounded like useful stuff. I had no idea exactly what it was or where it came from and have never seen any. I did know it was no longer available but had no idea it was banned, illegal or environmentally destructive.
I’d got visions of seaweed being collected from beaches.
- Location
- Cornwall
Not quite! Because it's a bit like a cold water coral type thing, it takes a bit of mechanical grunt to harvest it. It used to be done with small sail boats back in the day and was probably fairly sustainable back then. But not nowadays.I’d got visions of seaweed being collected from beaches.
- Location
- Near Beeston Castle
To be honest that was what I imagined it was.I’d got visions of seaweed being collected from beaches.
With this virus malarkey and not going to the supermarket I have gone into home production /self sufficiency in food supply. I’ve put up my 18x60 foot poly tunnel and sown various seeds etc.
On my windowsill I have germinated cucumbers, courgettes and tomatoes. The cucumbers and courgettes have done their thing and are now in the tunnel, just the tomatoes to go which is a slow old job.
I have to admit to becoming almost obsessive about them and have a look and count them regularly through the day.
Today my missus (who makes short planks look intelligent) says “you care more about those seedlings than me, why don’t you just get on and finger them”.
I was a bit shocked really and asked her what the hell brought that on.
Anyway, finally figured out she meant “p r i c k out”.
- Location
- Derbyshire
And meI’d got visions of seaweed being collected from beaches.
- Location
- southern riverina Australia
Well, that's quite disturbingTo be honest that was what I imagined it was.
With this virus malarkey and not going to the supermarket I have gone into home production /self sufficiency in food supply. I’ve put up my 18x60 foot poly tunnel and sown various seeds etc.
On my windowsill I have germinated cucumbers, courgettes and tomatoes. The cucumbers and courgettes have done their thing and are now in the tunnel, just the tomatoes to go which is a slow old job.
I have to admit to becoming almost obsessive about them and have a look and count them regularly through the day.
Today my missus (who makes short planks look intelligent) says “you care more about those seedlings than me, why don’t you just get on and finger them”.
I was a bit shocked really and asked her what the hell brought that on.
Anyway, finally figured out she meant “p r i c k out”.
But no wonder your having troubles with your tomatoes if your using your prìck
- Location
- Near Beeston Castle
I wasn’t using it, I just had it out.
It’s twelve inches but I don’t use it as a rule.
It’s twelve inches but I don’t use it as a rule.
- Location
- Darlington
UUMMM, Cornish Calcified Seaweed,,,,,used loads of it in the day,brilliant stuff,one of the few muck and magic things that actually worked. Didn`t half wear the spreader vanes though.
Wasn't that based in a warehouse in Penryn years ago?
- Location
- Cornwall
Not sure where they were based to be fair.
Do you think you can still see the benefit of applying CCS in the long term?
Fiveospades
Member
- Location
- Norfolk Broads
One thing leads to another.To be honest that was what I imagined it was.
With this virus malarkey and not going to the supermarket I have gone into home production /self sufficiency in food supply. I’ve put up my 18x60 foot poly tunnel and sown various seeds etc.
On my windowsill I have germinated cucumbers, courgettes and tomatoes. The cucumbers and courgettes have done their thing and are now in the tunnel, just the tomatoes to go which is a slow old job.
I have to admit to becoming almost obsessive about them and have a look and count them regularly through the day.
Today my missus (who makes short planks look intelligent) says “you care more about those seedlings than me, why don’t you just get on and finger them”.
I was a bit shocked really and asked her what the hell brought that on.
Anyway, finally figured out she meant “p r i c k out”.
- Location
- southern riverina Australia
Been a bit moist here too
- Location
- Cornwall
Yeah, just stopped here. Not sure how much we had overnight. Was fairly windy with it.
devonshirekiwi
Member
Was that direct drilled? What drill?
Impressive!
Impressive!