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oh well.

Next thing they'll be telling us that the man in The Green Mile, who inhaled everyone's illnesses, was really an undercover onion and didn't really make the mouse live forever

I've copied this below from a facebook post. Unfortunately it wasn't attributed to anyone which is a shame how these things go around. Anyway I thought it was interesting. I personally would try the first part of it and ignore the advice in the second part (about not saving onion leftovers). Wow- ve...

The coldest windows in my house are original sash ones which were the only ones not replaced by the previous owner. They are unfortunately on the north facing (open) side of the house and include the bathroom and loo. In the winter I had the idea to hang double net curtains up and I think they have ...

We've got gas central heating from a very old system that really needs replacing. It's the old type that fills up an immersion heater which I like. I believe that if we replace it we are obliged to have the new type (condensing boiler?) that means we are not allowed to have our immersion heater anym...

I haven't got a kindle either. I'm putting it off for as long as possible but I've been thinking that I will need one if only to work on my own writing and formatting etc. Also from the selling point of view it could make it accessible to a lot more people at a much lower price. I hope to see the bo...

I have read about citric acid and planned to test it but didn't get around to it. Most important for conditioning is scrupulously clean equipment, scissors, buckets and water. You need something to keep the water clean and a little something to feed the flowers. I use a splash of vinegar and some su...

I've got experience of cut flower growing (and selling) and am writing a book about it. Well very slowly unfortunately but it's on the way. Years ago I had a small flower stall and then when I went into growing sold flowers to florists and direct to customers at markets and school fetes, and whereve...

Hello,

I live on the south coast too, East Sussex. Been away from here for a while, busy in garden.

Like your garden and your blog. It looks like you've done a lot of work and you have interesting things going on.

I think plants are a better weapon than, or as well as, mulch. If you fork or pull out what weeds you can and immediately fill the space with strong plants then the plants will become more dominant. Variety of plants too with some to block light from the soil and some to attract beneficials and othe...

Yes I found this out last year, or maybe the year before. It's fascinating isn't it. I was suffering with the problem on my runner beans. I read ants don't like mint so I tied some bunches to the plants, mainly near the bottom. It seemed to work and I had a load of excess mint at the time. I saw ant...

It's funny how sometimes you see a question like this one, and have no idea at all, but then see things around which look like solutions. Yesterday I walked into the kitchen and my husband was making pellets, by hand, out of pork luncheon meat. The pellets are for fishing bait (lake fishing which he...

Never tried this but feel sure it would drive me crazy. I'm with pumpkin on the space thing. Would probably put it out the way somewhere and then forget about it. Did that once with those dried peas you have to soak with a tablet (actually husband started them off and then we both forgot) result was...

Ghastly? I think it's cute :-)

Pumpkin I'll post you a couple of roots if you want to PM me your address.