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Just bottled my home made Ginger beer, looking pretty good, anybody else made any here.. ?? 1.3kg ginger 6 tsp ground ginger 1tsp Cream of tartar 3 lemons 2 limes 1.5kg sugar 1kg brew enhancer Boiled up the ginger, lemons and limes (ground ginger too) for 30 min (in cheap bottled water) added the re...

Comfrey is fab stuff, I am itching to get some on my allotment to have as ground covering gubbins as opposed to bloody nettles which are persistant buggers... can't find any near me that I can blag though ... annoyingly!!

I am finding soft fruit is deffo becoming the biggest saver.. small boy in the house now and don't want him on crisps and chocolate biscuits, he goes nuts for his 'boobries' though

surely though not disagreeing at all but the oxalic acid is concentrated in the leaves and not in the stalk.... personally i don't worry about taste till it has finished fermenting. I have never had much of an issue with sluggish fermentation.. excessive ones without doubt! I do end up with highly a...

i was confused too.. it was a new pond and I had to empty it and faff somewhat last year during the season but still had a good clutch of tadders which have seemingly come back, plenty of frogs. just no tadders this year???

I would be very very keen to get a ginger beer plant.. I have made a couple of batches of alcoholic ginger beer which is pretty good but nothing like the jelly stuff has remained in the bottom of the FV which is what I thought I should use to get a plant going....
if I am missing something let me know

I have a bit of a man crush or CJJ Berry, good chap all round I say. I have done the hot water method on rhubard without issue but I have left it in a bucket for at least a week and lifted out the bits. 5lb of sugar is a bit mental and toast.... well I dunno what to say about that, never heard of it...

depending on the yeast, most yeast will die off when you reach a certain alcohol level anyway. as MKG says the wine will be sweet, but what you can do is make some more with less sugar and make a blend. Get some yeast nutrient to help the yeast along too. it may well be that one will be to dry and o...

you any find when it comes to sampling that a good old turkey baster (well cleaned and sterilised) is very good for taking out a little to sample.

Sodium meta bisulphite is one of the cheapest ways to do things, it gives things that extra touch of sterility and as mentioned before it can be used to arrest yeast activity after racking to make a more stable medium for the wine (it can undergo secondary reactions many weeks after bottling). If yo...

it has been very odd in the pond this year.. didn't even get any spawn and had loads last year.. lord knows what's going on??

you may be able to to get cavity wall insultion for a big fat zero.. the grant system is pretty good nowadays.

http://www.savesomegreen.co.uk/pages.php?pageid=21

Gives you the skinny on what grants you can claim... if that is at all helpful..

morso Dove for £150, good work.. Anybody else got one?? V jealous!!

I would have to agree with wulf, , biggest concerns will be keeping the bugger cool enough when the temp gets up. The victorians used to use fresh manure underneath the soil as the rotting of the doings toasted it up a treat.... make make things a little whiffy though!!

hello and good luck. don't worry about being late just get in there, car boot for some starter plants and you can still be inundated with courgettes, beans and brassicas , not to mention salads, spring onions or tomatoes. go green ranger go, go, go, go go