@dandlyon
active 5 days, 9 hours ago
Stay safe everyone View
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dandlyon replied to the topic Rhondda Blacks in the forum Gardening Questions 1 month ago
Gardening club open show 2019
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dandlyon replied to the topic Rhondda Blacks in the forum Gardening Questions 1 month ago
Rhondda Black still hard to beat,
Best in show
Best in vegetable class
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dandlyon posted an update 1 month, 3 weeks ago
Morning clickers a rough day ahead, wind rain. A day for wishful thinking and seed packet shuffling. Its the latest thing for frustrated gardeners, we may start a seed shufflers league at gardening club
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dandlyon wrote a new post, A Bit About Onions 1 month, 3 weeks ago
A very popular vegetable in the kitchen and relatively easy to grow. Years ago an onion bed had to be double dug , manured then firmed down with a lawn roller. Today a fluffy bed is advised and a selective onion […]
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dandlyon posted an update 2 months ago
Bit of spare time at last, if you grow in pots tomatoes, onions, leeks this is about the best compost you can buy, not suitable for seeds. Mickp sells it in his trading sheds £8.00 for a 75L bag-
Cheers Tony
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Looks double the price to buy on line.
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dandlyon posted an update 2 months, 1 week ago
Just a note on onions, I grow in pots’ till big enough to plant out, early April, adding tea spoon of micorrhizal fungi to the planting hole
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Thank you very much, Tony. You do know your stuff.
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dandlyon posted a new activity comment 2 months, 1 week ago
Gold fish, if your friend wants big onions like those Alan has shown they need first of all to be the right variety. The largest readily available is Kelsae. They need a bit of space to grow as only having long thin leaves they are not very competitive unless kept weed free. The feed I now use is in equal parts by weight Superphosephate, Sulphate…[Read more]
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Thank you, Tony, Yes he’s growing Kelsae Onions, and they are 3 inches tall now.I have been over to his house and seen them.i will pass the message on. Thank you very much.
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Too add to Tony’s perfect comment, The biggest onion on the list ,Weighed in at 18lb + And was a more specialised strain called,Ailsae.
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Thanks Allan, I have never heard of Ailsae. I would have to look it up on the net.
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It’s a cross between AilsaCraig and Kelsae.
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dandlyon posted an update 2 months, 2 weeks ago
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Bravo that man … we’re off
Good morning Tony
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Afternoon Tony, looking good
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dandlyon posted an update 3 months ago
Happy New Year to all clickers
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Yes Happy new year All.
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Happy New Year Tony and Al and a good growing season
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Wishing you a very happy New Year, Tony and Al, too! Not forgetting Cilla, of course
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dandlyon posted an update 3 months, 1 week ago
Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year to all clickers
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Evening Tony, and to you, have a peaceful and successful 2020.
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Have a lovely Christmas Tony.
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All the very best to you, Tony
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dandlyon posted an update 3 months, 1 week ago
Afternoon clickers thank you for the birthday wishes. Have not been on line for a , little time, no gardening activity due to weather. Either too cold or raining. Will be sowing seed for exhibition onions over the next couple of days.. The church ladies gave me a present to keep me warm on the allotment , a bottle of whiskey and a hip flask
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Nice one Tony So stay warm
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The church ladies know you well, Tony
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dandlyon posted an update 4 months, 1 week ago
Just need to top the bottles up and the Cumberland Brandy is ready for you know when. 8 bottles started back in Match-
Nice one [well 8
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Cheers, Tony!
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dandlyon posted a new activity comment 4 months, 3 weeks ago
Best runner beans I’ve ever grown, Bench Master, look good and taste good
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dandlyon posted a new activity comment 4 months, 3 weeks ago
Nation Vegetable Society silver medal plus a £10 voucher for Micks trading sheds
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dandlyon posted a new activity comment 4 months, 3 weeks ago
Best in show over all can choose your own bottle of spirit
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dandlyon posted an update 4 months, 3 weeks ago
Morning clickers every where white with frost, sky looks full of something?, hope its not snow. Thursday night was presentation night at gardening club. September show entered 4 classes of veg, and had four wins-
Best in show over all can choose your own bottle of spirit
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Nation Vegetable Society silver medal plus a £10 voucher for Micks trading sheds
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Best runner beans I’ve ever grown, Bench Master, look good and taste good
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Splendid Tony. Well done and well deserved after all your hard work.
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Looks good!
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Oh well done Tony that’s brilliant
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Bravo Tony
one of my favourites!! 
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I love Runner beans, Now I have a choice of two kinds
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Congratulations Tony
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dandlyon posted an update 5 months ago
Evening clickers, not much garden activity of late, the grounds much too wet. Have put a new roof on allotment green house, corrugated pvc sheets. Beans canes are tied in bundles and stored in green house. Before storing the canes were washed in a strong Domestos solution.Have done this for a few years and it has a big effect on black fly that…[Read more]
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Now there’s practical
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Just good to get outside at this time of year, Tony
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dandlyon posted an update 5 months, 1 week ago
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Super Tony
I have six big crackers drying out now as well Into the sock drawer soon “A la Allan” -
Pretty impressive, Tony
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dandlyon posted a new activity comment 5 months, 3 weeks ago
I thought wisdom came with age guess I was wrong
. Bostin Mick well done -
dandlyon posted an update 5 months, 3 weeks ago
Evening clickers, a new adventure for the compost guru Mick last weekend, a team were raising money for a defibrillator. This was on our local castle-
I thought wisdom came with age guess I was wrong
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Yikes! The man is mad.
Not that him doing this surprises me though. Well done Mick. @MickyP -
I bet he’s been checking out what’s growing on that little ledge
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The man’s a nutcase……but a brave and talented one
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Yeah right
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Hi Tony and well done Mick,its difficult enough climbing Dudley castle up the spiral narrow stairs! and always windy at the top.
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Morning Tony, sounds a good idea to me……accompanied by your Cumberland tipple of course
Stay safe 
Morning Tony
Hope we don’t get too much of this! Stay safe 
Morning tony, onions in the propagator along with toms, courgettes, and cucumbers.