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How can I prepare pumpkin & squash seeds for eating? Last year I tried just shoving them in the oven but then I can't open the seeds to get to the edible bit. They are hard to keep hold of until baked. How do the manurfactures do it? Has anyone had any success? I throw loads of the seeds away, which seems a waste.
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Yes, try that but the garden soil is cheeper & easier and gives very good results. The carrots were good to eat. Growing in just sand would give you problems with feeding and nutrient build up. Try what is good for you. Dad's method with light plastic baskets meant he could put them in a sunny spot then move them to cooler areas later on. this might be difficult with the weight of sand. Just a few seeds per station is probably best. Develope your own method to suit your time and location and enjoy
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I have grown ornamental gourds for the last two years quiet successfully. But they are not edible. They do keep the weeds down on the rougher parts of the allotment and do not need much care. Do you know of a seed supplier for unusual edible gourds and squashes? Can you recommend any varieties. Robust growing with little after care will help keep matrimonial relationships sweet!
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My Dad used Laundry baskets, plastic ones for the clothes awaiting a wash with the mesh sides. He lined them with black plastic bags inside. He used sieved garden soil mixed with fine organic matter (peat or very well rotted garden compost). The organic matter was important to stop the soil compacting. This gave long straight carrots. 5 or 6 per basket about 2 feet long or longer. As deep as the basket infact. You need to be careful to balance watering with demand or you get water logging or desert
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I am a large bannana who has out grown my home. I now need at least 15'high head room, my family of offshoots also need some floor area, but they are growing up fast so this wont be for long! I need frost protection in winter and have lived outside for the last two summers. I am no "super model" but posses "caracter". Money may not be an issue but transport more than an hour from Slough, Berkshire certainly will be. Please help with your advice. Musa
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You may get a lot of fungal growth on all the fallen leaves which tend not to rot down in the dry conditions under Leylandii. Prepare the ground now, with manure & stuff like bone meal, and wait for the spring, then recultivate and plant. The fungal growth can be so stong that you loose plants over the winter.
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Back issues of "The Garden" available. I have a complete set going back years, to when the magazine was in the A5 format. If you know of anyone or organisation who might be interested let me know. They will soon go for recycling. (I presume the set is complete, there may be one or two missing, I'm not checking!)
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