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Post by steev on Apr 6, 2014 20:58:16 GMT -5
They have enough people on staff that they have time to go on weed patrol. One of my farm neighbors has a weed fixation/obsession, which is part of why he hates my guts: I've got WEEDS and feel no obligation to eradicate them, except bindweed and puncture vine, of course, and gophers (mammalian weeds).
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Post by robertb on Apr 7, 2014 12:18:08 GMT -5
They had loads of staff in Victorian times and they'd have been really fussy. So they must have had people on the weeding for the series, though I did see some poking through.
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Post by 12540dumont on Apr 7, 2014 12:43:21 GMT -5
Okay, someone who's watched this show, which you can tell I'm fixated on. Oh yeah, I covet the walls, the greenhouse, the espaliered trees....and their rain.
What is the name of the tool that the gentleman cranks to spin hay into bundles for covering cardoon?
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Post by templeton on Apr 7, 2014 16:30:24 GMT -5
What is the name of the tool that the gentleman cranks to spin hay into bundles for covering cardoon? In the absence of more authoritative voices, I'm going with "oatzentwirzle" T
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Post by steev on Apr 7, 2014 16:44:43 GMT -5
Familiarly called "Bob".
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Post by 12540dumont on Apr 7, 2014 17:37:22 GMT -5
Templeton, I expect this kind of think from Steev...it is not an oatzenwirzle....I know because I looked that up before posting.
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Post by templeton on Apr 7, 2014 18:22:24 GMT -5
Ah, that's coz you spelled it wrong... oatzenTwirzle... This discussion also got me thinking about heritage vegetables, and why we might need new 'heritage' varieties. As Steev pointed out, they had lots of cheap labour. It makes sense that the varieties they grew didn't need to be low labour input varieties. Just put on another journeyman gardener. I'm thinking here of the varieties grown by the big estates - common folk probably did need low input crops - but I wonder if those are the ones that are preserved, or is it ones from the big estates that were given a certificate of merit from the Royal Horticultural Society? I haven't done any research here, merely postulating. T
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Post by templeton on Apr 7, 2014 18:44:59 GMT -5
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Post by oxbowfarm on Apr 7, 2014 19:44:34 GMT -5
You could rig one up very easily with a brace and one of those hooks they sell for hanging your bike in the garage. File some flats on the screw end of the hook for the brace jaws to grab, tighten it down and you have your strohseilzumeinwickelnkardengerät.
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Post by steev on Apr 7, 2014 22:16:46 GMT -5
I can't even reliably spell that, much less say it. Think I'll just use newspaper and twine.
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Post by templeton on Apr 8, 2014 4:48:38 GMT -5
Your search - strohseilzumeinwickelnkardengerät. - did not match any documents.
Suggestions: •Make sure that all words are spelled correctly. •Try different keywords. •Try more general keywords.
Oxbow, 'respect!' should I search on images, perhaps? Maybe google sholar would throw up something?
And steev, what has robert got to do with it? T
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Post by robertb on Apr 8, 2014 4:55:31 GMT -5
The device is called a wimble.
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Post by oxbowfarm on Apr 8, 2014 6:58:58 GMT -5
Sorry, it was a joke. stroh seil zum einwickeln karden gerät "straw rope to wrap cardoon device"
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Post by 12540dumont on Apr 8, 2014 16:36:29 GMT -5
I have a rope making machine. Yes, you can use it to make rope out of those nasty orange plastic strings that hay comes baled in, or out of sheep wool. A Wimble! A Wimble! I wonder if I can make one out of an old mechanical wood drill? There are just so many cool things. I just saw my first woven fence. Willow! www.rebeccaoaks.co.uk/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2013/11/Greenwood-CovA.pdfRegarding heritage veges/tree fruit. I'm not sure about the UK, but here a lot of stuff has been maintained not by the rich, but by the poor, who have to eat stuff and can't afford to go out to eat every night. And many of these saved their seeds because they had to. They couldn't shop 19 catalogs. A dime used to be quite a lot of money here, and there weren't many to spare
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Post by templeton on Apr 8, 2014 16:42:57 GMT -5
Sorry, it was a joke. stroh seil zum einwickeln karden gerät "straw rope to wrap cardoon device" I figured, but thanks for unwrapping it T
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