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Odsox wrote: ↑

Tue Nov 05, 2019 6:19 pm

not sure I would be allowed to after Brexit

Oh heavens, I hadn't even considered personal mail restrictions.

Odsox wrote: ↑

Tue Nov 05, 2019 4:47 pm

So far they've ignored me, but I'm not going to push my luck.

Sound plan.

How long do they take to fruit if, for example I were to sow some seed right now!!!!

Are you growing strawberries in your hydroponic system? Just wondering if I could do some in my little one.

We've got one of those soundbars with a separate sub-woofer - doesn't help much, I'm afraid.

I know exactly what you mean, ina. The background music hurts but if you turn it down to a manageable level you can't hear the dialogue. I don't know who thought it was a good idea. We have often stopped watching a film because we couldn't find a workable sound level.

I'm always interested in herbal teas (like you, Skippy, I like some more than others) so I investigated the rosebay willowherb tea. Very interesting. Apparently it was the beverage of choice in Czarist Russia, where it was not only drunk as a green (fresh or dried) tea but also fermented into a blac...

I think ina might have been referring to you, weedo.

Maybe you could complete the burning of some of it for potash. I wonder if wheatstraw ashes would make lye? Hmm, haystack soap.

Otherwise compost it and/or use some as mulch, as you've already said.

I didn't get past the title, skippy. What an appalling idea.

It reminds me of the Ben Elton book, Stark.

Indeed. We were awake really early this morning so got up to have a cheeky cup of tea. Next thing we knew there was a deluge out the back of the house - from the North - that sounded like hail (I was still in my pyjamas so didn't venture out to look!). OH started laughing. The weather forecast for o...

Well we've just harvested our entire crop of apples - after cutting out a few chewed bits we've got 4.4kg. They're all shapes and sizes so we're going to make a gallon of scrumpy.

We may have to buy some apple juice to top it up to a gallon.

It's good to support local small businesses where possible. Keeps people in jobs and the local economies healthy. I learned all about "local multiplier effect" when I went on a course about Social Enterprises.

Absolutely. Plus our council has given us one of the small wheelie bins for plastics and tins, but then they decided we should put cardboard in the same bin - they must think these bins are the Tardis!

Abslutely fine. They're now competeing with a spider plant, thatwhich managed to root itself in the same pot, and holding their own nicely. I harvest once a year, change the compost and leave a few bits in. They just keep coming back and rather attractive plants, to boot. We don't get a huge crop bu...

I wonder if water boiled in a £500 kettle tastes better.