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Marches

Joined: 13 Dec 2011
Posts: 171
Location: Nr Peak District, England

Posted: Thu Dec 15, 11 12:14 am Post subject:

Hay and hayledge have become good cash crops since the fad with horses took off (which I personally see as a waste of time).

We got contractors to sow and cut ours one year and we sold it, the costs were around £400 for ten acres and the hayledge had a market value of £800.

Don't worry, it wasn't a complete monoculture, there was a lot of wildflowers in the grass since we never put chemicals on it, but the grass seed was mainly creeping red fescue with remnants of oats in it.
It was good stuff, a good grass with a few wildflowers in (not quite a wildflower meadow mind), a few oats that the poultry ate and produced a good amount.

dpack

Joined: 02 Jul 2005
Posts: 45515
Location: yes

Posted: Thu Dec 15, 11 12:40 am Post subject:
uk figs need an agent ?

marigold

Joined: 02 Sep 2005
Posts: 12458
Location: West Sussex

Posted: Thu Dec 15, 11 6:31 am Post subject:
I live in an area which used to be famous for it's figs. This year the owners of the last (and protected) part of the fig gardens allowed me to take cuttings from the remaining trees. Some will be planted in the new community garden and the rest I will be giving to any neighbours I can persuade to plant a fig tree in their garden. I may also do some guerrilla planting if enough cuttings take .

Sally Too

Joined: 14 Sep 2006
Posts: 2511
Location: N.Ireland

Posted: Thu Dec 15, 11 7:49 am Post subject:
What an exciting project Marigold! Do you know the names of the varieties?

marigold

Joined: 02 Sep 2005
Posts: 12458
Location: West Sussex

Posted: Thu Dec 15, 11 6:24 pm Post subject:
No idea Sally! I'm told they crop well here though, so presumably one of the common UK varieties?

Cathryn

Joined: 16 Jul 2005
Posts: 19856
Location: Ceredigion

Posted: Thu Dec 15, 11 7:30 pm Post subject:

Marches wrote:

Fortunately it's one of those fads that's been going on for a very, very long time and looks set to continue to do so and what a useful waste of time it's proving to be for you.

Marches

Joined: 13 Dec 2011
Posts: 171
Location: Nr Peak District, England

Posted: Sat Dec 17, 11 12:16 pm Post subject:

Cathryn wrote:

Marches wrote:

Fortunately it's one of those fads that's been going on for a very, very long time and looks set to continue to do so and what a useful waste of time it's proving to be for you.

Laughing all the way to the bank.

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