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Thanks Red! We hunge them overnight in a downstairs room.....coolish but nowhere felt cool last night! One thing I forgot to mention is that the skin had a greenish very soon after death. I was going to beging plucking but tore the skin a little bit at the under wing so gave up and decided to go wit...

Hi all, I've not been on here since I got preggers with my last babe but I always found your advice to be invaluable. We have reared a flock of Light sussexes for the table. They are now 17 weeks old and so we don't get tough birds we have begun to slaughter the ones that are clearly cockerels. We d...

We have just officially started home edding our 4 yr old. I say officially as he was supposed to start school this Sept. We love it, we love the freedom, we love all the things we are learning as parents and I love that my 4 yr old is now trying to share what he has learned with his younger brother....

After seeing it on Gordon Ramseys thingy my DH insisted on buying a crayfish pot and having a go in the local river. I grumbled coz he also bought a fishing licence and we are supposed to be on a tight budget. So I think my words were "You had better catch a lot of chuffing crayfish!!!" So...

Hang on thats all well and good but we closhed all our brassicas. 1 cabbage looper got in and laid its flippin eggs in one corner and withing days hundreds of evil greenies had spreadacross the whole crop so derris it had to be! and we have managed to salvage a few. My DH and I spent 4 hours manuall...

Fab with chilli butter, heaps of garlic and a dash of white wine. Oh and Chucks of crusty bread!

mmmmmmmmmmm

Our rocket has finally bolted. but we have found that it comes back the following year much slower and takes much longer to bolt. Last Jan we had a rocket bush!!!!! :shock: complete with flowers and the leaves were really peppery but still tender. this year in May we got a shed load of leaves that f...

Oh I used to live near leics!! My Mum still does and is constantly complaining about her soil. She got so fed up with one of her beds that she dug it out and replaced it with luffly top soil! But failing that I know the CC does dosome good green offers and failing that get some pigs!! They do a love...

We have had loads of duck and always clipped their wings. you are only doing the longer flight feather tips and so it doesn;t hurt. the vet did ours first and just hacked across so I spent an afternoon lovingly shaping them!!! They can still get off the gound but not actually fly away! Our chooks ha...

thanks Nev! Today we spent a whole morning de-caterpillaring the broc, brussels and savoy cabbage. Most of the smaller ones were squished in situ :pukeright: which was kinda grim even tho we did wear glves. The big fat ones were collected up and fed the to the chickens - very satsifying and the choo...

Right its a Cabbage looper (cannot believe I just googled caterpillars!!!)

Apparently Dipel - contains bateria that kill caterpillars but is broken down by sunlight is "organic" but this was on a US sight so I am dubious. Any other ideas?

when doth one harvest it and what doth one do with it???

We have shed loads of the stuff!! So any advice most welcome

Right I closhed! I closhed everything remotely yummy looking with bog old fleece tents and something has got in and massacred most of the broccolli and has spread to the brussels and savoy cabbage :angryfire: How very dare they!!!!! Last year we got 3 weeny half eaten heads of broccolli out of 15 pl...

We had a total brassica massacre last year so this year we are taking no chances with flutterbys. Our brassicas look fab! lovely and healthy and covered by HOOGE great fleece tents/gazebos/marquees! Not that pretty but I defy any bufferfly to lay eggs on my plants!!!!

Thanks guys!!!!


Would you consider a four year old staring at you intensly while you are tryoing to lay, stressful? I'm thinking that was it!!!