Alternitive enterprise, growing Poppies

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Had to head down deep into Wexford to get a ball of binder twine, great to be still able to buy it.

 

[Arthur]

View attachment 46982 Had to head down deep into Wexford to get a ball of binder twine, great to be still able to buy it.

'Tis a wonder it's not priced in pounds, shillings and pence. £15-19s-3p..

 

[Cork]

'Tis a wonder it's not priced in pounds, shillings and pence. £15-19s-3p..

no barcode anyway that's for sure!!!

 

[nashmach]

Was Mick down there giving the brothers a hand while he is on the summer holidays!

 

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[nashmach]

Did they fail with the combine so gone?

 

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Did they fail with the combine so gone?

The cornflowers are impossible to combine successfully, they keep flowering so the seeds are never ripe at the same time and drop immediately they are ripe.
If this doesn't work well I will never grow them again, the poppies are handy compared to them.

 

[Bog Man]

Could you swarth them with a rape swarther . Maybe use podstick .

 

[jf 850]

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Would giving the lady in your life one of those sheaves , be acceptable as giving her a bunch of flowers .

Very unusual photo subject , gone . How , or with what are they to be threshed ? Or after how long ?

 

[Bog Man]

Would giving the lady in your life one of those sheaves , be acceptable as giving her a bunch of flowers .

Very unusual photo subject , gone . How , or with what are they to be threshed ? Or after how long ?

You could thresh out the sheaves and use the chaff as potpourri .

 

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Could you swarth them with a rape swarther . Maybe use podstick .

I thought about that, but not sure either way would work, bloody odd growth habbit.

Would giving the lady in your life one of those sheaves , be acceptable as giving her a bunch of flowers .

Very unusual photo subject , gone . How , or with what are they to be threshed ? Or after how long ?

We stooked them in tunnels on plastic, I think the seeds will shed when dry, it is a trial time will tell if it works.

 

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[nashmach]

What's going there next gone? I see you had it harrowed the last day I was you there.

 

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What's going there next gone? I see you had it harrowed the last day I was you there.

Poppies and cornflowers again this year, I think.

 

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Sowed cornflowers @ 1kg/ha

 

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[JohnBoy]

man that's pretty.

would it be easier to sow and harvest individual species in plots, or did the binder and polytunnel approach work well afterwards?

 

[kverneland es 80]

@Bog Man was in kinsale checking out alternative crops
https://www.facebook.com/groups/152931774892744/search/?query=cannabis

 

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man that's pretty.

would it be easier to sow and harvest individual species in plots, or did the binder and polytunnel approach work well afterwards?

It would be easier in plots, but that field is now alive with poppy seeds. The binder and polytunnel was only a partial success, if doing it again would leave it to ripen more, unfortunately the binder is no longer available so back to the combine.

 

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Plenty of Cornflower and Poppy, but plenty of other dirt as well.

 

[nashmach]

Is spraying out of the question gone?

 

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Is spraying out of the question gone?

Poppies are easy enough to pick a spray for, but the Cornflower is hard to find any spray for.

 

[Hardysplicer]

Poppies are easy enough to pick a spray for, but the Cornflower is hard to find any spray for.

As in some sprays will miss poppies easily but most will take cornflower ?

 

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As in some sprays will miss poppies easily but most will take cornflower ?

Yes, not to hard to find a corn spray that will miss poppies, but Cornflowers die with nearly any spray.