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Salting beans is easy .... Get an empty sweet jar or any deep wide necked jar that you can get your hand into as long as it has a lid. Slice beans as normal then add hand full of salt to hand full of beans or a layer of salt to a layer of beans, either way it's not too technical. Err on the side of ...

Can't help much I'm afraid as I don't seem to have any problem but I don't know why. My soil is very acidic and although I do lime early spring I'm not very scientific about it. I do give my cauliflowers a dose of blood fish and bone when they have made sizeable plants and I think it's about time th...

If they really are mushrooms you will know by now as they would have matured into recognisable breakfast items. My guess is they are those small fragile toadstools that grow naturally in compost from compost bins. You get a flush of 'stools then they disappear. They don't do any harm that I've notic...

I don't freeze runner beans any more, I salt them ... they taste so much better than frozen ones and a better texture too.

Things I do freeze are mainly peas and broad beans which I blanch for a couple of minutes, then when we need a pack for a meal, as soon as they come to the boil they are ready.

Had the same problem yesterday ... my 3 hens are no more !! Like you I heard a commotion about 6 o'clock last evening and found a severely wounded chicken in the run with the other two very frightened. I shut the survivors up in their house and returned half an hour later to find them all dead with ...

Greetings.
An acre seems to get bigger the older you get

Hi Steve & Julie
I'm miles away but welcome anyway.

Greetings

It looks like water damage to me, did they get the early morning sun when they still had dew on their leaves ? Healthy tomatoes exude water droplets on their leaves at night and outdoor ones also get dew, both of which act like tiny magnifying glasses that burn the leaf. If it is that, then it's not...

I found that when I took them out of pots, even though the plants has about 3 leaves and were less than 3 inches high, the roots were long rather than spread out. Perhaps best to use as deep a container as possible. I recently cleared the site for my new conservatory where my rhubarb had been growi...

I make cherry brandy from the sour Morello cherries and I never stone them for that, otherwise you wouldn't get that lovely almond flavour that comes from the stones If you're making your liqueur from brandy or any other spirits then just a wash out of the jars to get rid of stale smells, no need to...

Well thanks, that's nice to know.
If I can recycle my meat and bone waste that would be great.
Every thing else I recycle or goes on a bonfire once a month or so.

Is it really illegal to feed food waste to chicken ?
Surely not if you eat the eggs (or the chicken) yourself or has the world gone mad.
Half of my hens diet is cooked vegetables, potato peelings and bread crusts, I think they would go on strike if I told them no more extras.

That's right ... if you write Toss-co or even Tosco it prints OK, but put an 'e' in T***o and it has a tizzy.

Hi Shell and welcome to the group.

Not sure where you are in Kerry but if you can make it over the Caha Mountains to Bantry, there is a huge street market on the 1st Friday of every month where you can buy just about anything ... including chicken.