Leon Sennomo

Hi, I've seen some videos that make simple compost tea feed. Some just use compost and water, some also use molasses and an air-stone bubbler. I was wondering if this is a complete feed for the plants (macro and micro nutrients), or does this kind of tea still require other sources of nutrient? Let's say I feed a tomato or pepper plant in a container with this, am I likely to still see any deficiencies throughout the life cycle?

Thanks.

Last year I learned to make a compost tea for my allotment plot from nettles as shown here: http://www.gardenstew.com/about19288.html
I realised that I drink a lot of herbal tea throughout the year and was wondering if doing the same thing with the discarded nettle, mint, and rooibos teabags would make the same kind of thing, or do the ingredients have to be fresh?

Thanks.

Johan Thorbecke wrote:Try local markets or organic stores, sometimes you can order them there. If you have no succes I can mail you a few tubers from The Netherlands.

Thanks Johan, but I've just managed to get hold of some. I tried a high end supermarket and got lucky.

Hi, I would like to try Jerusalem artichoke this year in my allotment. People seem to like starting the tubers, but I read you can also grow their seeds. I haven't seen the tubers in the shops here in Finland, but if I can have some seeds shipped to me, is there anything I should know need to know that makes growing from seeds different than growing from tuber?

Thanks.

Renate Haeckler wrote:What do you want to grow on your plot? Because clover can out-compete with seedlings of a lot of kinds of vegetables and be a real pest in the vegetable garden. If you can tell us more about how you want to use the plot we might be able to give more helpful advice. It can survive tilling and is pretty hard to get rid of once you've got it.

I'm quite open to a variety of things to grow, but limited to the short growing season of 65 Degrees N. My plot is close to the beach, so the soil is quite sandy. I want to improve the quality of the soil so this year I've planted mostly peas and beans because I hear they are good at this. I've also planted some tomatoes, pumpkins, and leaf beet in various places.
The majority of the other growers plant potatoes, carrots, and onions, but I don't really see the point of this as you can get all these in the shops really cheap. I want to be a little more adventurous

That's great news! Thanks for sharing

Howdy folks,

I just got hold of my first allotment space (my first year growing outside of containers) and have been having some problems with weeds. I would like to combat this by choosing a sustainable ground cover that will improve the soil. I thought about growing clover, but my biggest problem is that in the Spring time, a tractor comes and tills the whole field and I fear the seeds dumped by the clover the previous year will fail to sprout if they are buried after tilling.

Has anyone managed to witness clover regrowth after tilling? Or perhaps you have another self sustaining ground cover solution you can suggest?

Thanks.

From the pictures I've seen, it doesn't look like a wild cherry. The berries on my pics are too round and are a little translucent.

Joshua Finch wrote:I think I've seen them here as well. But I don't have any experience with the species yet. Your photographs sure do correlate with some of the pictures I've seen though.

Whereabouts in Finland are you?

Hi Joshua, I'm in Oulu.
I think the shrub's flowers were yellow in the spring time too, but I can confirm this next year I guess. The shrub seems to be a popular edition here in the kerrostalon piha alueet (apartment block communal garden areas).

If you ever need seeds, don't hesitate to ask.