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- Sun Aug 26, 2007 5:48 am
- Forum: Herbs and Vegetables
- Topic: Sweet Potato and slips
- Replies: 16
- Views: 12851
Kumara can be grown from either the shoots or the whole kumara, but the usual way is from the shoots, which can be bought from a garden centre. It is really easy (and much cheaper) to grow your own though. This involves selecting one or more disease-free kumara (just make sure it has no blemishes or...
- Tue Aug 21, 2007 2:34 am
- Forum: Livestock
- Topic: Wax moths in bees
- Replies: 12
- Views: 4928
- Tue Aug 21, 2007 2:26 am
- Forum: Livestock
- Topic: Double yolker
- Replies: 10
- Views: 4053
- Wed Aug 15, 2007 8:17 am
- Forum: Livestock
- Topic: Double yolker
- Replies: 10
- Views: 4053
Double yolker
http://i174.photobucket.com/albums/w100/ohareward/Produce/IMG_0430.jpg This is a double yolker. You can compare it with the normal eggs. http://i174.photobucket.com/albums/w100/ohareward/Produce/IMG_0426.jpg My wife's other hand. The egg weighs 63 grammes, standard is 35 grammes. It is 70mm long an...
- Tue Aug 14, 2007 11:28 pm
- Forum: Fruit and Nuts
- Topic: Raspberries
- Replies: 12
- Views: 6041
- Sun Aug 12, 2007 5:17 am
- Forum: Fruit and Nuts
- Topic: Raspberries
- Replies: 12
- Views: 6041
Hi Adekun. This coming season will be my first crop. I got the plants from a friend of mine. I planted them and they grew great. About 1.5metres. I built a raised bed of 150x25 timber as my place gets very wet in the winter. There are two season types of raspberries, summer harvest and autumn harves...
- Sun Aug 12, 2007 4:55 am
- Forum: Livestock
- Topic: Isinglass for preserving chickens eggs?
- Replies: 17
- Views: 11992
Hi Fee. When I was a kid my mother put eggs into a gelatine type stuff and the eggs kept for a long time. I can remember it being in a four gallon tin that had a secure lid. If one of the eggs went bad there was a horrible smell when the lid came off. When you put them in the stuff, I think you have...
- Sun Aug 12, 2007 4:43 am
- Forum: Welcome New People Say Hello
- Topic: Bonjour all...new member now in France!
- Replies: 20
- Views: 7594
- Sun Aug 12, 2007 4:30 am
- Forum: Reduce, Reuse, Recycle
- Topic: Surplus Building Materials
- Replies: 1
- Views: 2365
Surplus Building Materials
Not sure if you Ishers in UK know of this site, but here it is anyway.
www.whatdoidowiththis.com
It could be helpful.
Robin
www.whatdoidowiththis.com
It could be helpful.
Robin
- Fri Aug 10, 2007 3:42 am
- Forum: What's in the pot? Recipes and anything about Cooking
- Topic: Beetroot again
- Replies: 5
- Views: 3668
Hi Directbulbs. Welcome. Here are a couple of recipes. Chocolate beetroot muffins You need: 2 large beetroot, (not canned) cooked, peeled and grated 1 and three quarters of a cup SR flour Third cup cocoa powder 1 cup brown sugar 2 eggs Third of a cup olive oil Third of cup buttermilk Method: Put ove...
- Thu Aug 09, 2007 3:33 am
- Forum: Allotments, Veg Patches and Container Gardening
- Topic: Changing the element in a cooker
- Replies: 4
- Views: 2140
- Sun Aug 05, 2007 9:36 am
- Forum: Welcome New People Say Hello
- Topic: Hello!
- Replies: 24
- Views: 7865
- Sat Aug 04, 2007 9:40 pm
- Forum: Herbs and Vegetables
- Topic: Phosphorus
- Replies: 1
- Views: 1738
Phosphorus
This is from a gardening guru, Wally Richards, here in Christchurch, NZ PHOSPHORUS When we buy plant foods or fertilisers for our gardens we see on the products the letters N:P:K followed by numbers which indicate the amounts of each of these elements. The NPK stands for Nitrogen, Phosphorus and Pot...
- Sat Aug 04, 2007 2:13 am
- Forum: Welcome New People Say Hello
- Topic: Greetings from an Egyptian (hopeful) Homesteader
- Replies: 14
- Views: 5892
http://i174.photobucket.com/albums/w100/ohareward/Hello_bird1-1.gif Mohamed http://i174.photobucket.com/albums/w100/ohareward/welcome_0181.gif Do they still use the Nile to flood the growing areas in any part of Egypt like they did in ancient times. Most of my knowledge of Egypt was learnt at schoo...
- Sat Aug 04, 2007 2:02 am
- Forum: Welcome New People Say Hello
- Topic: hi from netherlands
- Replies: 7
- Views: 2975
http://i174.photobucket.com/albums/w100/ohareward/Hello_bird1-1.gif Berti http://i174.photobucket.com/albums/w100/ohareward/welcome_0181.gif Six hours should be enough for most things. Containers, pots, hanging baskets. All good ways to grow with. What is the general weather like where you are? Robin