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1)Make your own beanpoles by coppicing some Hazzel. Maybe volunteer with a conservation organisation on a day when they are doing this? 2)Use the trays you get free for carrying pots from the garden center as actual pots, just fill up with compost and plant. 3)Don't buy potassium feed make comfrey t...

If land for sale is advertised as Land type Paddocks. Does that mean you have to get permission to change it from "paddocks" to "arable" to grow veg/keep chooks ect? Hope you dont mind me asking in your thread? Also is that likely to be difficult?

you could try here

http://www.uklanddirectory.org.uk/build ... r-sale.asp

Yeah same problem here. Ive been told that they should come back ok. I'll have to wait and see.

Ever had difficulty deciding what veg to grow or even what strain? The idea of this topic is that new and old growers alike can add their experiences. For this to work well need to keep to some simple, straight to the point headings and keep general questions/queries to separate threads. Plant Strai...

How many times in a year are you going to have to replace the manure? And what are you going to do with the "spent" manure?

The only thing worse than oil running out is oil not running out.

I have the following plants in pots of soil in a unheated greenhouse 10 raspberry canes, blackberry bush, spring cabbages. I also have a blueberry bush outside. The soil is frozen solid and has rarely thawed out for the past few weeks. Should I be watering them?

Bad buy
Draper flask from garden center, didnt keep heat in, handle broke, metal lid "unstuck" from plastic inlay. all within 2 weeks of buying.

Did anyone see the episode of Gardeners world where someone was growing I think 160 different types of apple on one tree? Brilliant!

Good luck all of you if you do meet up, sounds like it could be a great day out. Sometimes you do have to make that leap into the unknown with foraging. Try and keep to some of the basic rules of foraging safety though. Wash things before eating them especially in urban areas where rats may be pres...

This sounds great. It would be a bit of a busmans holiday for me, but would be a great way to learn new skills, meet like minded people, I think I'd go abroad though!

http://www.wwoof.org/

gives a list of all the countries with wwoof's

Sorry i can be a bit slow. to the left of each thread there are either blue or orange twirly bullets. Blue means no new posts, orange means new posts. But what does orange twirly spinning mean? and what does the red dot mean?

How much was your 4 acres if you dont mind me asking? Just today I've found 4 acres near me selling at 12k per acre. So that would be 48K!! I've emailed the seller to see if he would consider selling just one acre or renting!

I would like to see thoose mushroom growing manuals FTB. My email is youwerentinnam@hotmail.com

cheers