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- Sun Jan 23, 2005 5:01 pm
- Forum: Bring back the Goodlife - and other Television and Radio related things
- Topic: What's your favorite Good life/good neighbours episode
- Replies: 17
- Views: 13563
- Thu Jan 20, 2005 5:14 pm
- Forum: Welcome New People Say Hello
- Topic: Greetings from wet Wales (great!)
- Replies: 9
- Views: 7332
- Tue Jan 11, 2005 12:49 pm
- Forum: Welcome New People Say Hello
- Topic: Home made pasta
- Replies: 4
- Views: 4011
- Thu Jan 06, 2005 5:38 pm
- Forum: Welcome New People Say Hello
- Topic: New to this forum
- Replies: 3
- Views: 3740
Hello Mary, welcome! I`m a crone and find the site friendly and useful. As for having a PC - free youth! When I left school I was a trainee accountant in a nationalised industry. I was approached by a boss of another department and offered a transfer. I went to see my boss and told him I`d been offe...
- Thu Dec 30, 2004 5:05 pm
- Forum: But what can I do?
- Topic: Dont use plastic shopping bags!!!!
- Replies: 26
- Views: 21255
By cutting plastic bags into strips about an inch wide you can knit them into really strong shopping bags. If you feel artistic you can even use the different colours to make patterns. If you start cutting in a sort of spiral you get long lengths. By the way, has anybody got any brilliant ideas abou...
- Wed Dec 29, 2004 5:51 pm
- Forum: Welcome New People Say Hello
- Topic: Hello folks
- Replies: 9
- Views: 7202
About growing in our gardens. I used to teach in a school in a `disadvantaged` area where there was a lot of poverty and unemployment. Many of the kids were malnourished in some way, either sickly/skinny or pasty/chubby. Thing is - most of their meals seemed to consist of over-processed convenience ...
- Tue Dec 21, 2004 5:26 pm
- Forum: Allotments, Veg Patches and Container Gardening
- Topic: Slugs
- Replies: 7
- Views: 5741
Slugs
Hi Andy! I find that the old beer trap works quite well - a shallow container of beer buried in the ground - a cm or two above the surface so that you don`t trap ground beetles. It traps and drowns loads. Trouble is, there`s loads left. Derek says that they probably come from miles around to sample ...
- Tue Dec 21, 2004 5:15 pm
- Forum: Herbs and Vegetables
- Topic: Growing peppers in an unheated greenhouse in the UK
- Replies: 12
- Views: 10819
Peppers
Hello Guest! I had a smashing crop of peppers in our unheated greenhouse last year. They grew lovely and big and also ripened to a rich red. I started them off in trays and then pricked them out as usual. Can`t remember the exact time but it was just what it said on the seed packet! We had enough to...
- Tue Dec 21, 2004 11:22 am
- Forum: Welcome New People Say Hello
- Topic: Hello folks
- Replies: 9
- Views: 7202
Gosh thanks!
Thanks for making me feel welcome! Actually, although we don`t live in the actual countryside we can be a bit greener because we don`t need to drive a car. It`s good to be in walking distance of doctor/library/allotment etc. Perhaps a small country market town would be the best of both worlds but th...
- Mon Dec 20, 2004 12:07 pm
- Forum: Welcome New People Say Hello
- Topic: So you are here, how?
- Replies: 32
- Views: 19285
Poll
Actually - `me` was I, Elderflower, but I did the post wrong!
- Sun Dec 19, 2004 12:48 pm
- Forum: Welcome New People Say Hello
- Topic: Hello folks
- Replies: 9
- Views: 7202
Hello folks
Helo, I`m new. I`m really pleased to find a self sufficientish site. We`ve down shifted from working for money to trying to grow our own food on our allotment and being as green as possible. (Okay, we`ve got a pension to live on as well!) But we live in a semi-rural semi and there`s no way we could ...