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Runner beans coming out of our ears, still harvesting dried haricot beans, lots of butternut squash, Brussels sprouts have started, beetroot, tomatoes, aubergines, cucumbers, carrots and potatoes. We still have some black grapes as well as green grapes, strawberries, autumn raspberries, Discovery ea...

Flo wrote: ↑

Fri Sep 13, 2019 9:05 am

Chuckled at the title. On another forum the cellar is where the moderators go to confer upon suspicious posters - over tea and biscuits of course.

TEA AND BISCUITS!!
That's it, I'm off to offer my mod services to this other forum, we don't even get a glass of water on this one.

Welcome back Russ, you have been missed.

Yep, I tried apple wine Bernard, just the same as the other wines I tried to make. The sorry saga is here ...https://selfsufficientish.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=19&t=28942 I didn't realise it was 2014 that I made these wines, I came across the last few bottles a couple of months ago and they still t...

Much as I would like to, I have never made a country wine that was even drinkable. I have tried at various times over my lifetime using different recipes from books, up to MKG's personal instructions, and all have had a nasty "home made" taste that I can't describe. As I've been a "commercial" wine ...

I agree with what Weedo said. A more permanent solution is maybe what I have. I collect all the rainwater from my barn roof which is then stored in 2 x 1000 litre IBCs (Industrial Bulk Containers) which can be totally sealed with screw lids. Mine are plumbed with ball (float) valves so that when the...

I've been busy trying to get everything done before the winter starts. I managed to re-roof one of my big sheds, ripping off the leaky felt and plywood, and replacing it with corrugated iron. I've got another smaller shed to do the same to, but I need a dry, windless, preferably cloudy day, and I'm ...

Apricots at the moment, all being dehydrated.
Next week the same will be happening to the black grapes.
Plus slowly picking the dry pods of various beans for shelling and storing. 4 varieties this year, the "multicoloured" ones, Blue Lake haricot, Orca (Yin-Yang) and butter bean substitute.

Green Aura wrote: ↑

Tue Aug 06, 2019 7:39 am

Odsox has first place in that league

ME ?? Grumpy ?? and OLD??
Not me, I'm so even tempered you could use me as a spirit level.

Welcome to Ish, Michael. You are among like minded people here.

No lights - do you think it would work between the two hydrponics units? On a sunny windowsill it wouldn't be necessary for lights. I did mine in a fairly dark shed in winter, with a sheet of expanded polystyrene (Styrofoam) that floated on the nutrient. I mentioned it in my Ish blog piece .. https...

Green Aura wrote: ↑

Tue Jul 30, 2019 8:54 am

We still have a fish tank. Any ideas - that don't include fish?

If it has Grolux lights and an aerator you could grow lettuces hydroponically.
I did just that some years ago, easy to do and works well.

Resurrected this thread because I have yet another oddity. One weird tomato, this is a Berkley Tie Dye tomato and this is it's first fruit, which is the result from one of those huge flowers you sometimes get on the first truss. Up until now nothing ever came from those huge flowers, but this time i...

we are in the middle of early winter planting season. Early winter? Surely you are well past mid-winter now. Yesterday was the first pick of maincrop peas, 2 x 20' rows to supply enough peas to freeze for the winter. I picked a kilo (shelled weight) and froze 4 packs. The rows are looking particula...

I sincerely hope reusable plastic is OK to have, not only have I several plastic watering cans, I also have one and a half gazillion plastic flower pots, plus seed trays, propagators, wheel barrow, water tanks, buckets, hose pipes, strimmer, mowers, plastic handled tools and two polytunnels. Flo, if...

This is new to me that I thought I'd share. A few days ago when it was a thoroughly wet day something in the middle of my window caught my eye. At first I thought it was one of my missuses hairs caught on the wet window, by watching it, it was obviously alive and mobile. I just remembered to look it...