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Annpan wrote:Strange, how we all have such polarised experiences, isn't it? I have never used any other lawn mower, so to me, it is fine and perfectly acceptable - and I don't have stripes

Life would be boring if we were all the same :)

Devon Dumpling wrote:We have a Qualcast Panther as well and we find it to be great, even on longish grass...

Is your lawn very flat?

My next door neighbour has a Qualcast panther and it's useless on my (quite bumpy) lawn. It almost put me off push mowers until I came across the Brill Razorcut.

On fleaby. although I have bought it through my catalogue as with my commission and years interest free it works out near enough the same for me, not the RRP they say here. http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&rd=1&item=170226261796&ssPageName=STRK:MEWA:IT&ih=007 My Mothe...

I decided to forgo the petrol option and the push option and go for cordless! Unfortunately the cheapest one does stripy lawns :shock: and it's considerably cheaper too! Make, model and price please. Not that I'll be bothering - my lawn looks better than ever thanks to the Brill Razorcut (push) mow...

Just be aware that Ubuntu doesn't work with all hardware so it's worth trying from a bootable CD first. 8.04 is much better hardware-wise but some of the problems I've seen people have are no sound, bad (if any) graphical environment and wireless not working.

Do what I did and install Ubuntu on the same machine. You can then choose when you boot which you want to run and can therefore have the best of both worlds. Even if you have a disk of Ubuntu already try and download the latest version because it is much better and has less security holes * * Yes Li...

I put teabags in the composter. The bokashi is for food waste minus teabags according to the leaflet. You can put it all in the composter, but Bokashi makes it easier as you don't have to go outside when it's raining. I've still to hear of a reason for not adding tea bags - I've been adding them fo...

A neighbour has a Qulacast push mower and it is so useless that I thought they all must be. Then WigglyWigglers started selling the Brill Razorcut mower, which I decided (after hearing from others who already owned one) to try. It's fantastic; takes the same effort as my petrol mower and makes as go...

I still don't understand this no tea bags argument I keep hearing. I've making Bokashi for a year and a half and tea bags are a staple feature (as are banan skins).

The finished product then goes in the worm bin or compost bin and I have great compost.

Yes, you're right - that's a problem with this design that I have yet to crack but I've allowed for it by siting my worm bins in the feeding zones of fruit trees. Good idea but make sure you water the fruit trees as the juice can be quite strong on its own (though whether it would ever be too stron...

hedgewizard wrote:I've got the instructions for making mine here - doesn't cost a bean.

but you lose out on one of the best things you get from a worm bin - the worm tea. Watered down and used on plants and veg this is great stuff.
Shame to have it go to waste.

I've had a can-o-worms since 1998 and couldn't recommend it enough. See http://www.sherlock.co.uk/blog/2008/02/ ... setup.html for how it fits into my composting setup.