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Cheers for the reply, The single cream was definately cream (probably twice the price of bought butter!) So I take it the answer is just keep turning then? Has the temperature got anything to do with it? John Seymour reckons it's got to be 20 degrees C. Then somebody else suggested adding a dollop o...

Have just bought an old BLOW butter churn and have made two attempts at making butter.....unsuccessfully. The first time was with single cream and an hour and half of arm numbing churning, still no separating. Then with double cream and within 7 minutes it was a solid mass. Does anyone know what I'm...

Hello Bushbass, We used to have the same problem with deer in Scotland. When we fenced the garden all it seemed to do was trap them in. They used to jump over the fence into the garden but seemed incapable or disinclined to jump back from whence they came. In the end we resorted to haunch of vension...

Evening and welcome, Justin, My sweetcorn was a huge disappointment last year too. From the outside all looked plumpcious and delicious but inside only half the kernels on each cob were swollen and yellow...the rest were all green and wrinkly...was it me? My potatoes got blight and the celery did b....

Re edible hedge, I got it for £19.99 from buckingham nuseries (mail order) enough to hedge 30ft and is a mixture of rosa rugosa, cherry tree, hazel,blackthorn, and a plum tree. I also put a eleagnus and a chokeberry in with the order. So far so good just waiting for decent weather to plant it all. ...

Hello, and welcome I'm quite new too. I've found the best way to get started on an allotment is to ask your fellow allotment holders their advice...sometimes you don't even have to ask! Have a good look at what's growing well and then just go for it. I personally prefer to start most things off in t...

I think the neighbours are interested, mildly alarmed but tolerant (at the moment) and yes we have lots of chats including, alarmingly, when hanging out the washing. Now the leylandii have gone am having to hide the smalls in the middle of the whirly-gig. Such is life!!! Happy chocolate fest one and...

Hi, I'm another newbie, I hope I'll be classed as self sufficientish. We live in a village of 200 residents in the middle of the peak district. Our local town has NO allotments what-so-ever. Perhaps they figure with all the farm land surrounding the town there's no need?? None of the local farmers/l...

Hi, I'm new, I hope I'll be classed as self sufficientish. We live in a village of 200 residents in the middle of the peak district. Our local town has NO allotments what-so-ever. Perhaps they figure with all the farm land surrounding the town there's no need?? None of the local farmers/landowners w...