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Apparently the seeds can lay dormant in the soil for years and when the soil is disturbed {like by Piggy} they germinate. Feel such a fool as I was rather proud of it thinking it may be something tropical....not as bad as my mum who carefully replanted a bed full of Rosebay Willowherb thinking they ...

Thanks to you all! I shall have to go back to the drawing board on this one as we dont want any "gassing" or anything that shouldnt be glowing orange! Ok,so I have another connundrum,we bought 15w solar panels from Maplin {God! I love that place!} and on the box it said you could join upto...

Im with the patchworkers and rag ruggers,have made one for each of us,made the boys out of old jeans but they weighed a ton and gave you a hernia when you shook them! of course old mens pants {as in worn out pants not pants from elderly gentlemen...although...} make brilliant dusters and old cotton ...

Thank you both,I was imagining having to install some kine of "loft" in order to house the hot water tank! Now I know theres no need and that makes things much simpler! The water in the old system got so hot we had to turn the hot tap on and let water out before the tank blew! Is there any...

Hello from a Swansea-dweller! Your life sounds amazing :wave: You are most welcome to come over we are practically neighbours {we drag people in from the street as we dont get out much.... :iconbiggrin: Seriously we would love to meet you and pick your brains [having just nearly killed off our enti...

Thank you both,I was getting in quite a tizz running around connecting one battery to panel and then charging the next! Ive got better things to do with my time then spend days connecting crocodile clips! Tony,can you explain,what it means to have greater voltage as we have mainly 12v appliances wit...

Ok just looked it up on the net,oh man! what with that and "the mushrooms" growing in the old brassica bed its a wonder we havent been raided! In all my years growing stuff Ive never seen anything like it before! One odd thing I found "historically it was mixed with other herbs and sm...

Crikey! Thank you all! Ill pull it at once! How on earth did it get into my field??? Thank you so much,poor piggy couldve met a very nasty end!

I cant imagine having human poo drying anywhere,the smell would be overpowering and what if you had a "vindaloo tum"??? Wouldnt it be better to build a simple composting loo {those old chair commodes with a bucket placed underneath instad of the potty bit are what we use.} and put the resu...

Oh Yes! Little ones nappies go on the woodburner,the weighing factor for me was seeing the amount of nappies one baby would use in a year going into landfill! Yes,there are chemicals that get put into the air as a result of them burning but weighed against the amount that cars and industry pollute t...

Firstly can I say I didnt see the programme BUT I am old enough to remember "Threads" about the threat of the nuclear attack in the 80s,I was a child at the time and the nightmares it caused me were terrible.As an adult I have lived in the country and we have lived through blackouts,petrol...

We have a very weird plant growing ooutside our pig pen,at first we thought it may have been a stray seed from the feedstuff but on closer examination of the contents of the feed we realised that of course we could identify all the components if they germinated! Obviously we need to know what it is ...

Hi, As we have 6 dogs we have plenty of dog erm poo??? to deal with,the first thing we tried was a wormery dog loo,this worked ok but obvioulsy with the amount produced it was a slow process especially as we didnt have ahuge amount of worms! Next we hit on the humanure idea {we now have composting t...

Hi! Im hoping that someone out there can explain to me,in idiot English as I dont do electrics,I dig holes and plant stuff,how can we charge multiple car batteries using a solar/wind turbine.At the moment we are charging each battery individually which is time consuming and of course means that one ...

I don't understand your question, so I can't answer it. It sounds like you already know how to do it though so I don't know if this will help. We recently bottled some vinegar resulting from some rather revolting homemade wine made from (evidently far too strong) herbs. It was totally undrinkable. ...