Death brassicas is not excuse to give up TG. We are relying on you to find the solution.
Sorry my brassicas have not 'died' they are just not growing!
My veg has survived (just) but they are sickly looking plants!
I have planted them out and some seem to be recovering but others ?????
Hence my statement I will wait to the end of the season before I decide!
Its my bedding plants that are worst the majority are not fit for anything so these will go to the tip including the compost.
Then again if I do this am I creating the possibilty of buying it back after it has been recycled into the compost I buy next season? ??? :-\
Regarding me finding a solution I am not sure!
I tried this year by making my own to see if that would help but due to the error I made it didn't work this time but there is always another time!
Having said that I have done a cost on making my own compost and it is working out nearly as expensive as buying it around a fiver a bag (70litres)
Prior to T&M buying out Chempak and upping the price of their products it is not as cheap an option as it once was. I always found in the past I could make my own for around half price but sadly these days have gone!
So another rip off in my opinion which fetches me to the confusion I created by mentioning;
decimilisation, it was a rip off,
europe is a rip off,
metrication is a rip off
eg petrol before the litre it was the gallon and there used to be moans when they put it up a penny a gallon, but now that penny is nearly five times that much when it goes on a litre!
Organic is a rip off
is not what it is cracked out to be i.e. it is not a level playing field.
Once you get your 'organic' license you can use 'chemicals' the only difference from the past is; it is more controlled ( or is it?)
Plus the younger ones that are trying to 'grow there own' sadly do not know any better and buy whats on offer without question, meaning us who are supposed to know have to pay the going rate as well!
I know I should get with it, and live with the times, but are these times better than the past?
I was brought up to believe if it is not broke don't fix it!
But Europe & Westminster try to fix it just to justify their existance it would seem!
Well that all I am saying on the matter!
On reading this through perhaps this article perhaps it should have been published in the 'shed' so if any one wants to add to the debate can I suggest they open up a new thread in
'the shed' and we take it from there........Tg