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- Fri Apr 20, 2007 12:15 pm
- Forum: Herbs and Vegetables
- Topic: A welcome mistake
- Replies: 25
- Views: 9209
I planted loads of chives and spring onion seeds and baby leek seeds in all kinds of places last year and none of them ever came up. This spring my allotment was full of little patches of alliums coming up everywhere. Is that what you're meant to do - plant chives and leave them dormant in the groun...
- Fri Apr 20, 2007 12:12 pm
- Forum: The ish Local - (Chat)
- Topic: Organic seeds
- Replies: 5
- Views: 2447
- Thu Apr 19, 2007 4:54 pm
- Forum: The ish Local - (Chat)
- Topic: Organic seeds
- Replies: 5
- Views: 2447
Organic seeds
Ooh, this place is new. "The Local", eh? Like it. So, organic seeds. Are they worth it? I mean, I buy normal seeds, plant them in the ground, don't put any pesticides or herbicides or fertiliser or anything weird like that on them, just manure and compost and stuff. Isn't that organic enou...
- Thu Apr 19, 2007 9:38 am
- Forum: What's Going On?
- Topic: Interview with Andy and Dave
- Replies: 7
- Views: 4030
Thanks guys. I didn't know you had a blog, Wombat! I've added you to my links at bean-sprouts. You can add me to your Livejournal friends if you like by adding MRimmerBlog to your friends list. Same goes for anyone else on LJ. Does anyone else here have a new blog I don't know about? I'll go and hav...
- Wed Apr 18, 2007 10:27 am
- Forum: What's Going On?
- Topic: Interview with Andy and Dave
- Replies: 7
- Views: 4030
Interview with Andy and Dave
Hi guys! Sorry I haven't been around for ages. I was just spending too much time chatting on this forum and not enough actually gardening and recycling and making stuff etc. That's my fault not ssish's, so I'm going to try again and use some self-control this time. I published an interview with Andy...
- Wed Jan 31, 2007 1:19 pm
- Forum: Wild Foods and Foraging
- Topic: I'm not the pheasant plucker...
- Replies: 4
- Views: 3949
I'm not the pheasant plucker...
I bought a brace of pheasants for £3. It's the end of the shooting season and they all had to be sold ASAP. They're hanging in the garage until dad arrives on friday, then I'll pluck them, dress them and roast them for our dinner. I had to phone Ed and warn him. He's a vegetarian and I think if h...
- Tue Jan 30, 2007 11:42 am
- Forum: The ish Local - (Chat)
- Topic: Been burgled - devastated :(
- Replies: 22
- Views: 7692
- Tue Jan 30, 2007 11:39 am
- Forum: What's in the pot? Recipes and anything about Cooking
- Topic: We just made butter!!!
- Replies: 15
- Views: 7326
Annpan, are you sure those were the things that made you sick, and you weren't just sick coincidentally after eating those things? Milk that's off smells and tastes off. If it smells and tatses OK it won't do you any harm Eggs are the same. you really know about it when eggs are off. And in both tho...
- Mon Jan 29, 2007 6:04 pm
- Forum: The ish Local - (Chat)
- Topic: Bad news
- Replies: 13
- Views: 5059
- Mon Jan 29, 2007 6:00 pm
- Forum: Fruit and Nuts
- Topic: Sweet Cherries
- Replies: 1
- Views: 2462
- Sun Jan 28, 2007 5:08 pm
- Forum: What's in the pot? Recipes and anything about Cooking
- Topic: We just made butter!!!
- Replies: 15
- Views: 7326
- Sun Jan 28, 2007 2:25 pm
- Forum: What's in the pot? Recipes and anything about Cooking
- Topic: We just made butter!!!
- Replies: 15
- Views: 7326
I've done this. You just put it in a jar and shake it for ages. It needs to be old cream - apparently really fresh cream doesn't work. And it has to be double cream. Then once it goes (it happens really quickly) - it goes slosh-slosh-slosh-slosh....shlosh-slosh-THUNK. And that's when you've got a lu...
- Sun Jan 28, 2007 2:13 pm
- Forum: Eco Products and Innovations
- Topic: Do Dryer Balls Work?
- Replies: 0
- Views: 2709
Do Dryer Balls Work?
I tested tumble dryer balls to see if they live up to their claims that they reduce drying times and soften clothes. I thought the softening claim was plausible, but the cutting drying time was a bit more dubious. Turns out I was exactly wrong - they do reduce drying times by over 30%, but they don'...
- Sun Jan 28, 2007 2:09 pm
- Forum: Eco Products and Innovations
- Topic: Effective Microorganisms (EM)
- Replies: 14
- Views: 8959
I read about EM in Wiggly Wigglers , where they're all big fans. I dunno, I'm just not excited by it. It sounds like a solution to a problem I haven't got. My chickens' shit smells. So what? It's meant to. My compost could decompose quicker. Don't care. It decomposes fast enough for me. What can I s...
- Sun Jan 28, 2007 1:53 pm
- Forum: Allotments, Veg Patches and Container Gardening
- Topic: What would you recommend?
- Replies: 3
- Views: 2335