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Just need to see if I can get my hands on materials. I found those plans with great interest back in early spring and was all fired up. However, I tried phoning the two local scaffolding firms and one wasn't interested in talking to me, and the other offered to give me the "knuckle" offcu...

I came across this today, which is an interesting, if inflammatory to most of those here, take on energy supplies. http://esr.ibiblio.org/?p=521 The synopsis is that renewable energy (sun / wind / water / volcanoes) are not viable due to a lack of technology to store and move electricity. He reports...

Green Aura wrote:Hideo - in place of nutrient and vit B you can use 1/4tsp of yeast extract. Same stuff you put on toast (or not).
Maggie

Definitely not on my toast! Though my wife loves it so we have plenty around. Thanks!

Hi Linzi, I used this recipe for my elderberry wine last year: http://www.patch-work.demon.co.uk/#A I skipped the nutrient and vitamin B as I didn't have any at the time. I also left it in the demijohn until about a month ago (I did rack it a few times though), so it was fairly well aged - about 9 m...

I make a sort of 'plum brandy' using what's called 'white liquor', which is flavourless 35% alcohol. Do you know if this is available in the UK? We want to make a kind of Creme Framboise with all the raspberries this year but I can't find any clear, flavourless spirit base for it. Vodka was going t...

Dissolve a kilo of ordinary sugar in a couple of pints of hot water and pour that lot into the demijohn I would leave the hot water to cool before pouring it into the demijohn, glass cracks very easily with large sudden temperature changes - I know from experience! There is a very good beginners tu...

This has been sitting in my tab bar for a week or so, but I haven't had a swede for a few weeks to try it!

http://straightfromthefarm.wordpress.co ... ous-salad/

The new leaf is probably the Raspberry's new cane growing. This is what the fruit will grow on.

Ours have been quite slow to grow, so I wouldn't worry if it takes a while. In fact, we only have growth on about 1/3 of our plants so far!