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Have followed this thread with interest - I only drop in from time to time, but wow - plastic bottle greenhouse!!! I work in a school and am always trying to find cost effective ways of extending our green ish projects - this has inspired me for a whole new way to promote our gardening club. We have...

Paradox, I dried and saved the marrow seeds from a hefty allotment grown marrow a friend gave me last year. There are loads of them and my garden won't support that much, besides which, there is only so much you can do with a marrow! I don't know what proportion is likely to grow, I've stored them i...

Okay - I've surfed a bit wider and found this in connection to Watermelon Buck (?!): "That bubbling and foaming is natural. It will turn into a scum floating on top. Leave that scum on untill you are ready to drink. When you are ready to drink skim that scum off and discard "Do NOT STRAIN ...

I've been educated and fascinated by this discussion, but grown ever more befuddled too. :? While I agree that energy consumption in our culture is going mad and we have only ourselves to hold responsible for what we use, I can't help but think electricity actually is a good thing for the most part....

I just finished a conversation with my mum who tells me they had a quote for a solar panel system to heat their water (enough for just the two of them) and with the grant it would run to £7,000, which feels ineffective for them to recoup the cost when they are retiring at the end of the year. Yet...

Eeeuuoow!!! That looks scary! If it's bubbling, it's giving off gas so don't seal it with the lid. I'm not convinced you've got alcohol in there. Isn't there some formula where yeast eats sugar a gives off alcohol and CO2 as a by product. plenty of liquid though. Would love to encourage you to try t...

Marrow Rum fantastic stuff. Highly potent. Not sure how it will turn out with a courgette, but could be interesting. I've just started my second Marrow Rum (first one was about 15 years ago and I still remember vividly how alcoholic it turned out - be warned!). I did use yeast. Here's what I'm doing...