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cab



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PostPosted: Thu Apr 28, 05 9:10 am    Post subject: Horseradish for...? Reply with quote
    

I have horseradish.

I want comfrey (root cuttings or plants), but I'm open to other offers.

Cab.

Bugs



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PostPosted: Thu Apr 28, 05 9:16 am    Post subject: Reply with quote
    

We have comfrey, some could probably do with coming out of the potato bed, but it doesn't have a name (some are pale blue and some are dark). I couldn't guarantee its edibility and it's more prolific - read "invasive" - than the Bocking 14 (I believe).

But we don't want any horseradish

Paddington Bear



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PostPosted: Thu Apr 28, 05 6:11 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
    

We have some comfrey we have been trying to get rid of for a few years and can dig up some at the weekend!

Bugs



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PostPosted: Thu Apr 28, 05 6:20 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
    

Cab, I think Bear and I are proving that horseradish for comfrey might be something of an equal swap

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PostPosted: Thu Apr 28, 05 6:36 pm    Post subject: Re: Horseradish for...? Reply with quote
    

cab wrote:
I want comfrey (root cuttings or plants), but I'm open to other offers.


English or Russian, Russian is best for liquid manure I believe although their is a special strain I believe.

mochyn



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PostPosted: Thu Apr 28, 05 6:55 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
    

Cab: I bought the lemons today!

dougal



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PostPosted: Thu Apr 28, 05 8:19 pm    Post subject: Re: Horseradish for...? Reply with quote
    

Treacodactyl wrote:
Russian is best for liquid manure I believe although their is a special strain

IIRC "Bocking 14"?

Treacodactyl
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PostPosted: Thu Apr 28, 05 8:26 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
    

That's the one I was thinking about.

Bugs



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PostPosted: Thu Apr 28, 05 8:47 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
    

I wonder where you heard that then?????(not you Dougal )

Bugs wrote:
...more prolific - read "invasive" - than the Bocking 14 (I believe).




Apparently (according to Jekka McVicar, who isn't sitting here with me, I just have a book) the Bocking one has 2-3 times as much hmm potassium (I had to look it up again) as common or wild comfrey..but that's still good.

sean
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PostPosted: Thu Apr 28, 05 8:50 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
    

Have you two considered the possibility of *talking* to each other. I'm told it's relatively simple, though you may have to turn away from your computers briefly.

Bugs



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PostPosted: Thu Apr 28, 05 8:53 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
    

I was *talking* to him! I told him the name *twice* this evening, so don't *you* asterisk *me*, you jumped up little *schoolboy* you

(Anyway, we haven't got two computers since the drama with Dell - we're sharing a remarkably quick and sturdy handmedown from our surrogate dog's owners. How Downsizery is that? )

sean
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PostPosted: Thu Apr 28, 05 8:55 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
    

Ah well, in that case you have my sympathy, he's obviously deaf.

Bugs



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PostPosted: Thu Apr 28, 05 9:00 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
    

Awfully polite of you not to dwell on the fact that he might be ignoring me - after all, who would want to? Even if they got the opportunity...

cab



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PostPosted: Fri Apr 29, 05 7:42 am    Post subject: Reply with quote
    

Blimey, all the comfrey in the world

It's really for green manure, and most strains are fairly good for that; whichever comfrey has pretty flowers will do me.

So if you chaps (Paddington, Bugs) haven't got such an interest in horseradish, what else can I offer you?

(Bugs, did you get the seeds?).

ButteryHOLsomeness



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PostPosted: Fri Apr 29, 05 7:47 am    Post subject: Re: Horseradish for...? Reply with quote
    

dougal wrote:
Treacodactyl wrote:
Russian is best for liquid manure I believe although their is a special strain

IIRC "Bocking 14"?


what does IIRC mean? i keep seeing it and i can't figure it out

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