Mine arrived very late last year so since I cannot find a thread looks like mine has arrived early this year.
Mine arrived today!!! Hurrah!
Being limited to 6 packets is very frustrating. I choose mine soooo quickly. I hope to go to their potato day in January and get some more in swaps. But due to weather and slugs found it very difficult to get beans for drying this year so fewer than usual to offer.
Believe it or not, I'm struggling to find 6 things I really need... looks like it will be mostly tomatoes this year!
I actually found to start with I was not sure what I wanted. But then I read more and soon found myself having to stick to the limit. I would like to be able to refer to a data base with more information. I think that the soil type is very important. They have the hungarian wax bean it is a wonderful bean huge plants but they have failed to note it is huge attraction for slugs.
...mine haven't..:evil3:
Since I've seen this post about catalogues being out again..I've been dangling from my letterbox. I've got my nail dug deep into draught exclude bristles and I keep giving evil eye for the postie when he passes by without dropping the appropriate envelope through.. :evil7:
I'm just having my morning tea..warming up my fingers and I'm about to start dangling again...postie normally comes around 10 am..and if he dare to be late........"thunder and lightning icon would be just the job now"
I think they must send them out in batches. Last year mine arrived very late indeed and year before others had already had theirs, so I think it was my year to be first. Having said that I still got all my first choices. Please do not explode Goodlife.
Interestingly I always find the lucky dip packet does the best. I suppose anything they have a surplice of will be something which grows well.
Quote from: goodlife on December 06, 2012, 09:16:31
...mine haven't..:evil3:
Since I've seen this post about catalogues being out again..I've been dangling from my letterbox. I've got my nail dug deep into draught exclude bristles and I keep giving evil eye for the postie when he passes by without dropping the appropriate envelope through.. :evil7:
I'm just having my morning tea..warming up my fingers and I'm about to start dangling again...postie normally comes around 10 am..and if he dare to be late........"thunder and lightning icon would be just the job now"
Has it arrived now? Got mine 3 days ago and still choosing ................. :wave:
I got my seeds today. Got all my choices but not sure now I chose wisely. Keep asking myself why did I choose that?
I got Ne Ulta Plus as my bonus which I have been trying to grow for years, but the voles love them and I never seem to get to save any peas for the following year before they eat them all. So I never get enough to bulk them up for a good crop. This year I thought I had got the better of them by hanging the vines up to dry but the little critters can climb and still managed to get them, not sure how. Either that or it was birds with teeth. So now I have another chance to try again.
Posted my choices today :toothy10:
Quote from: Digeroo on December 13, 2012, 18:42:43
This year I thought I had got the better of them by hanging the vines up to dry but the little critters can climb and still managed to get them, not sure how. Either that or it was birds with teeth. So now I have another chance to try again.
That sounds like woodmice; they climb like squirrels.
Nothing yet.... :cussing:
Maybe you are right about mice. Whatever it is can nibble the ends of rye. But I have seen the voles dangling high up on sweetcorn, on top of broadbeans and walking along the top of drying pea plants. They have little fear of me or heights. They climb in slow motion like squirrels on tranquillisers. Though I have yet to understand how they got up bamboo canes. If they fall off they seem to bounce. Netting has no effect on them they simply chew holes in it.
The red kites have been a mixed blessing, they have discouraged the pigeons, but also the kestrals which ate the voles. But we have acquired a couple of cats.
Red kites will eat small rodents, but they mainly feed on worms and carrion, so they probably won't be that much help.
Quote from: Deb P on December 06, 2012, 08:00:19
Believe it or not, I'm struggling to find 6 things I really need... looks like it will be mostly tomatoes this year!
That way lies madness Deb!
Got all my first choices last week, another tall pea (Laxton's Exquisite!) and a couple of tomatoes... (one was the lucky dip!) :icon_cheers:
I have never seen the red kites on the ground long enough for them to be eating worms or carrion. They take the pigeons in mid air. The kestrals sit for ages on bean cane structures or raspberry cane posts etc and then pounce on the voles.
Still NO cataloque ... :BangHead: :angry4:
Mine never arrived one year, I waited for awhile hoping it was going to arrive, but nothing came. They were really quick to get one in the post once I contacted them. Perhaps it's lost as most seem to have had them at the beginning of December?
Quote from: pumpkinlover on December 13, 2012, 19:07:35
Posted my choices today :toothy10:
Ooh ooh what did you choose?
Quote from: Deb P on December 06, 2012, 08:00:19
Believe it or not, I'm struggling to find 6 things I really need... looks like it will be mostly tomatoes this year!
Ahh me too, I've only just sent my list back so maybe I won't get first choices. My list; Dwarf Wax, Cernetu, Schimmeig Creg and Brooks Special tomatoes, Potetshka climbing bean and one other I can't quite remember for the moment. I'd already ordered Aussie Toms from somewhere else and after googling Burpee's Matchless, I'm not sure it is. There were a few others I would have loved too, hopefully they may be in again next year. What toms did you go for Deb?
I think you should give them a ring Goodlife, I certainly got mine late last year but I am sure it came before Xmas.
Quote from: Digeroo on December 21, 2012, 09:33:03
I have never seen the red kites on the ground long enough for them to be eating worms or carrion. They take the pigeons in mid air. The kestrals sit for ages on bean cane structures or raspberry cane posts etc and then pounce on the voles.
Are you sure those are kites? It's most unkitelike behaviour! Pigeon-killing is more likely to be a big female sparrowhawk, or a peregrine.