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Weedo wrote: ↑

Wed Nov 14, 2018 10:04 pm

Hopeless at any household crafts (with you Odsox)

I found the best way is to get a wife, Weedo.
That was the best 30 shillings I ever spent (marriage licence)
That works out at 3p a year in new money or 7d in old ... so far.

First off I can't claim to do any household craft skills because I've never tried I can do a lot of things to do with self sufficiency though. I can lay bricks and blocks, I've constructed extensions to 2 houses. I can build sheds and greenhouses from scratch. I can mend most engineering type things...

No to #1, Weedo, I agree with Flo, certainly for growers. For instance in spring I have tomato seedlings sprout in my tunnels, as well as other last year's crops,. Their virtues have been known for centuries, but they need weeding out as they "are in the wrong place". 2, if humans are treated the sa...

That is a Berberis Vulgaris and I'm pretty sure all Berberis berries are not toxic. I can only really comment on the purple berried one (Berberis Darwinii) I used to have, and those are sweet but rather bland to eat.
According to Wikipedia the red ones are "tart, refreshing and full of vitimin C

I have loads of pet gripes, one tends to collect them with age, but I have 2 concerning cooking that gets me going every time. 1 .. Every time you see a picture of a roast leg of lamb in adverts for supermarkets, there is a slice cut to show the nice pink meat inside. This slice is always without fa...

As an aside to this thread of eradicating noxious weeds, one thought occurred to me .. is it ethical? Horsetails are known to have been growing in the carboniferous period due to fossil traces in coal. Human have been around for about 200,000 years and as horsetails have for at least 270 million yea...

Hi Bobbysgirl
Nice to meet you and welcome to our forum

Almost the same Weedo, except not alcoholic.
Think lemonade and cola type of drinks, although I won't confuse you with Irn-bru.( some weird Scottish concoction)
We need a smiley in a kilt

Shouldn't be too much of a problem, especially if your east facing window gets a decent amount of light. I purposely grew a small pepper plant for winter fruits, I think there is a photo somewhere on this forum, and it was a success. The only problem was the variety, which grew such small peppers th...

Well almost none.
I went to Lidl today and bought some mushrooms.
They are now sold in cardboard punnets instead of the blue plastic ones, although it still had clingfilm over it.
But it's a step in the right direction, so well done Lidl or the Irish mushroom growers, or both.

First off, I don't think you need to worry about disease from the ex-bats, as they are probably dosed up the their eyeballs with antibiotics as a norm. Plus you have the bullying round the wrong way. In my experience of keeping chicken it will be the resident birds attacking the newcomers, protectin...

Flo wrote: ↑

Wed Oct 17, 2018 2:15 pm

And it was an interesting learning curve.

It was Flo, and now I know that I can do it again next year.
I have to save a whole cob, the biggest as well, just to provide me with 25 seedlings.
There's always going to be some left over.

Of course that would work, and work very well. It's no different to at least 4 similar growing systems that I use here, including the simplest one of my windowsill troughs being watered via the saucer the trough is standing in, or the porous hose pipe I bury in my greenhouse beds and connect to a ta...

Odsox wrote: ↑

Wed Oct 17, 2018 8:10 am

I will have to have a slice of each to compare.

Just tried that and I can confirm it was wishful thinking.
No difference in the 2 sets of loaves, but as I said, it saved wasting old seed.

We tried it last night. There would be no grittiness as it was ground to a fine powder like the wheat. I can say that I couldn't taste any difference, but it did have a sweeter aftertaste, or I "think" it could have had a sweet aftertaste. I will have to have a slice of each to compare. Either way i...