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Hi all I make alot of bread but find the flour either too expensive or... plain crap. I would really like to grow some grain but as I start to read about it I get a bit confused and usually fall over. Has anyone had any experience with this, as any first hand advice would be a great help. Thanks all

Thanks again for all the replies

Soy Beans are quite hard to grow but its an all rounder, beans for food and milk, oil for oil and burning (maybe candles).

Ill let you know how I go on

Hey all, Not sure where to put this, im growing soy beans on my allotment to make soymilk and eat the beans too. But I was reading that you can make oil from soya beans (via compression somehow) then turn that into wax (out of my league as you need to hydrogenate it). But that got me thinking, I cou...

Hullo

Weaste Allotments in Salford, Manchester

There are loads of free plots, even though the council tell you there is a 2 year waiting list we got on in 2 month by being... persistant.

Give it a go

Hi all I have too many tomatoes, they are coming out of my ears at the moment, and rather than living on a 10 tomato a day diet for the next month and a half I was wondering if anyone can help me. How can I store the tomatoes? Any recipe for a sauce or other inventive way to keep them would be great...

Well im not sure yet, still waiting for the paperwork on my allotment, really wanting to start. Dont like the idea of slug pellets and im more inclined to take the long route of backyard science than the more conventional put plastic bottles over all my seedlings and doing night raids on the slugs. ...

I was thinking (in the strange way that my mind sometimes (mostly) works) that a step up from the copper protection I hear people talking about, would be to electrify said copper. On looking for schematics for making an electric fence and adapting it to an "Electric slug fence" I came acro...

Nice one, was very tasty.

Dug out a recipe book my grandma threw together and found the exact same thing in 40's handwrighting, must have been an old favourite back then too. :)

Hi Shirlz, Im in Salford now (Moved from Manchester about a month or 2 ago). Yeah im never one to do things normally so I ordered these "world" used tools, they are bloody sturdy, I can tell you that :), hopefully if the council dont mope about too long and I can get a key for the allotmen...

Ok after a few practice swings and different grips, I think I found a safe(ish) (to go along with the ish theme) way to use it, that is not to raise it too far off the groud before you swing it into the ground.

Still not a clue what im doing, but it will be fun, if only for the passers by haha

Hello people Im a bit stuck, whatever you might call it, I cant find a site or book to tell me how to use one effectivley. Plus cant afford to fly abroad to watch some in action. So I was wondering if anyone here could explain using this tool, so I dont end up in traction or make a fool of myself :)...

Oh dear, i need to cut back on cake but I have to try that one as well :) Thanks

mmmmmm, just made it, because im greedy i cup up some chocolate and baked that in as well. Very tasty thanks for the recipe.

My name is kelvin...... and im a cakeaholic

Ever seen the videos of them running a freight train (that weighs god knows how many 100s of tonnes) into a reactor core wall?.... and the train vapourises and leaves barley a scratch on the wall?

Now try the same with a plane that might as well be made of tinfoil.

Replaced all the bulbs in my house with these a couple of months ago, was a special at B&Q got 8 for 6 quid or something around that, they worked out at well under a quid each anyways. Got used to the slow warm up time quickly dosent bother me anymore. I am quite happy to sacrifice instant light...