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I've read about that one - haven't seen one yet - what puts me off is that it is supposed to taste like chicken! I'm a "real" veggie, i.e. I genuinely don't like meat of any description...

Tell us about it when you've eaten it, how similar to chicken it tastes!

Ina

Hedgehog might be a bit painful, in case I trod on it in the dark :mrgreen: ! But a chicken, well, why not. Solves the problem of keeping them indoors due to bird flu threat... I should add, maybe I could train it to lay directly into a pan, so I'd just have to add water in the morning and put it on...

Hares are quite rare up here. We do get myxomatosis, too - but it only seems to kill a few of them, never makes much of an impact on the total population. Maybe they've become immune by now. Frankie once met a rabbit on the lawn that was suffering from myxomatosis, and she didn't kill it - although ...

I remember my mum making stuffed cucumbers when I was a kid and we had a cucumber glut in the garden - same way as you'd stuff courgettes or peppers, with minced meat etc. I never really liked them much, but maybe that was because homegrown cucmbers in those days tended to be bitter. And it was befo...

Good morning, MMM I get the impression you don't have a rabbit problem where you live? Although I don't actively hunt them, I'm rather glad about every one that get caught by the cat... Although I do find them cute, of course I do, and when Frankie gets them and they are still alive and well, I rele...

Gotta be a bit careful of the big ones - they can be carnivorous leopard slugs and they eat other slugs! Nev It was back last night - in my kitchen - and definitely a carnivorous one! I now know what attracts them to the kitchen in the first place, me being a veggie, there isn't much for them to ea...

As long as other birds can't get into the pen, it should be ok. In other words, you'd have to have quite small mesh size, or cover the pen with bird netting, the kind used for fruit trees... And outside feeding is already banned in several countries, as that attracts wild birds. I must say, I can se...

What are all you poultry keepers out there planning to do in case the ban on freerange poultry comes to the UK (or France, Portugal or wherever you are...)? :cry: I have for the time being shelved my plans to get hens and ducks. Mind you, I had intended to get the shed and pond ready months ago and ...

I wonder how much growing conditions affect the flavour, including things like the composition of the soil, and what you feed them on? It makes one heck of a difference how you grow them, I'd say at least as much as the variety! That's the problem with normal commercial stuff, they just grow them i...

If it's only one or a few holes they are coming through, can't you try and block them a bit more permanently than with mint? I had some kind of animal in my former flat - I think it was something rather larger than a mouse, but I never saw it - and as it chewed it's way through a wooden floor and a ...

MMM, I think I even prefer our midges! They do love me to bits, but at least I'm not allergic... We made up some stuff in France from (if I remember correctly) St. John's Wort and sunflower oil, left to ripen in a bottle in the sun for a few weeks. Applied to stings and bites it worked wonders in re...

Forgot to mention broad beans for next spring, and possibly more spring onions!

Ina

Apart from lettuce plants which are still not transplanted (well, if I'm lucky they survive the winter again), it'll mainly be lambs lettuce now, and onions, if I get round to buying seeds...

Ina

Yep, the only cabbages we had were single portion sized, too. Nowadays that would suit me fine, but back then we were a family and needed bigger veg!

Ina

Hi Sue If you dig in the edges of the plastic rather than just weigh it down with stones, you should be ok with the snails. Actually, I don't even know that much about snails and whether they like exactly the same hiding places as slugs - that's all I get here, and plenty of them! I worked on one fa...