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Hi Demi, have had a good bit of experience with large breed dogs, had Great Danes and did Great Dane rescue for 9 years. One of the best things I have found for walking large breed dogs is a thing called a Lupi, it gives you complete control over the dog so you can control with one hand, there is al...

Thanks very much, have settled in well, been having a look round the place and it is lovely

Thanks Demi, I managed to read it this time. I am pleased my foliage looks just like the photo's, just have to hope they turn out ok, we do have long daylight hours here in the summer, so finger crossed

Thanks very much MSM I won't be worrying much about the moles as we dont have any in Ireland, now slightly worried about triffidesque plants romping through the polytunnel. Demi, I can't access this link. I haven't read about taking off flowers, but I know flowers sap energy which is why I usually n...

I did try growing indoor tomatoes about 10 years ago and they got wall to wall aphids, but I didn't sow new seed, I rooted some sideshoots. Do you get any aphids on the indoor stuff??, they may have caught them off my citrus trees, which have now died from being exposed to -21 here in 2010. I HATE m...

I got some sweet potato slips and they are now growing away in the polytunnel; as recommended, I planted the slips through some black plastic. I can't fnd much information on cultivation, has anyone any experience. If they flower, should I remove the flowers (I always remove potato flowers), the fol...

I had forgotten about the expensive postage to here. I live 20 miles from the border so I get mine sent to a Royal Mail post office and a friend picks up my post. I would be more than happy to share seeds as I save mine from year to year so my purchase 3 years ago is still going strong. Sorry you di...

Not an expert, but if there are trusses and no tomatoes that have formed perhaps they did not get pollinated and the flowers just dropped off. Do you get many bees in your greenhouse?, do you grow flowers to attract pollinators into your greenhouse. Check out The Real Seed company, they have lots of...

My rabbits and poutlry avoid parsnip foliage like the plague but eat most othery greenery quite happily, nothing seems to eat ground elder either

I had this and got better. I read a book called why ME which was helpful, there may be other books out there now. I cut things out of my diet such as bread and mushrooms as yeasts and fungi apparently cause the body to fight the off these organisms and also sugar as you can have an overgrowth of can...

Thanks Boboff, a good link. Have been delving a bit more, I think they grow them from cuttings in India commercially. I found somewhere that said abrade them with sulphuric acid, the wizard I live with has got some (??) but won't let me touch it, but he will do it for me. They need soaking for two m...

They are, but you can grow them as houseplants so I thought I would give them a go

Hi, I bought some black pepper seed from a supplier in Canada. They look a lot like the sort I put in the pepper mil, not sure if I have been ripped off. Anyway, I have soaked them, sowed them and they are in the propagator cooking away. So far nothing has happened, have I done anything wrong, has a...

Wish I had a glut of peaches. I would probably make a bit of peach alcohol, same way as you would make sloe gin, I do a mean blackcurrant vodka, have also done plum and sloe vodka, this makes me sound a bit of a boozer, but I do give small bottles away to friends and a wee drop in the dark winter ev...

What about ballerina fruit trees, they only get to about 6 feet and they seem to fruit quite well, can even be grown in a large pot so you can always take them with you if you give up your allotment. I think you can get a cherry on pixie rootstock which is very small. A family apple tree is good as ...