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I think I got about 4 off each plant too. Maybe we should have pinched!

Alcina

Could be a caching problem M3. The SQL error implies that it already has an entry for the search you're making, well the search_id anyway! Try clearing your web browser's cache.

Alcina

I've looked at it. At the time it was stil too beta for use in a business setting. Worth keeping an eye on though. The Mozilla stable has muchos respect. Firefox is an excellent browser and Thunderbird an excellent mail client - though again they have no intention of aiming at the corporate market w...

Ah fee.fairy, that sounds like spyware rather than virus. Try Spybot Search And Destroy and Adaware.

http://www.safer-networking.org/en/index.html
http://www.lavasoft.de/software/adaware/

A combination of the two works quite well.

Alcina

Also how many people do you know that grow soya in the UK? Me, me! :mrgreen: This is my second attempt to grow soya - I love edamame! Last year I had horrendous germination problems...this year the germination was better, but the friggin' snails decided that soya was the new lettuce and have comple...

Didn't pinch or stake mine last year and they produced lots of lovely little aubergines on my patio. Maybe it's a variety thing? Some benefit others don't?

Alcina

Ah..thanks Martin! I shall keep a check on the shininess of me shells and the pertness of me yolks! Ooer!

Alcina

Excellent description Shirlz! I have an RHS book bought as a present called: "Propagating Plants" which goes into details about each and every seed: which require scarification and which don't, and what type of scarification is required. When you read it a lot of it makes sense...think abo...

Oh wow...what a source of information you guys are! I had no idea about not washing eggs! And I can't believe (read: I really, really don't want to believe it) they put "DPM" in chicken feed! What sick mind thought that feeding an animal on its own faeces was a good idea? :pale: Now I'm in...

Not sure about "drying" the seed in water. It seems to be based on soaking seeds in water for a specific time before sowing to hydrate them. How long depends on each seed variety. The theory seems to be that you hydrate the seed to just before the point of germination, then you sow it. Tha...

I second the Epsom Salts. Also, pumkins are apparently fericiously hungry beasts and need a lot of nitrogen I was told. I fed mine pelleted chicken poo. Produced two big pumpkins in the end. Neither Epsom Salts nor chicken poo are instant cures though...may take a couple of weeks. Powdery mildew is ...

I use Firefox...sshish is fine for me!

Sigh....my life is one long battle against the people who believe there is only one way and that way is Microsoft. Alas...I seem to have failed at work. Time to look for a new job.

Alcina

Update: I made some blueberry jam last weekend. Same weight of sugar as fruit, 2 tablespoons of lemon juice and 2 tablespoons of stewed apple juice. It has set wonderfully...actually it's a little too set! But very, VERY delicious...in fact, so delicious that I went out and bought a Blueberry bush! ...

(has anyone round south east London got a healthy bush I could have some cuttings from?) Me, me, me, me, me!! I have a big bush in the front garden (smells fantasic) which was grown from a cutting my a friend's father about 3 years ago. Pop on round! I'll PM you the address. I've also got spare tom...

I second the Nick Sandler and Johnny Acton book, it's really good! The other thing that happened in the past is the people grew many different varieties so that they matured at different times and they didn't get a glut. We tend only to have early and late varieties now, but in, say, Victorian times...