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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...

I've been at it again. I had some saved sweetcorn seed left over from last year and rather than waste it I tried to make popcorn. The popcorn maker whizzed and got very hot, but no popcorn came out. The kernels were very toasted, but that was it. It was bread making day today and I couldn't let it g...

I certainly do, in fact I actively grow stuff as a norm indoors every winter. At the moment I have 4 tomato plants in pots timed to have ripe fruit at Christmas. I also have 4 troughs of strawberry plants chilling outdoors which will be brought indoors in January to fruit from early April onwards an...

Ah thanks Flo, I thought it was only me that had odd years.

I harvested my squash today ahead of the stormy weather. I grew 2 varieties this year, Black Forest and Black Futsu. The smoother ones at the front of the barrow are Black Forest and the puckered ones are Futsu. Now, roasted B. Forest taste just like roast chestnuts. Forget Pottimarron, these are al...

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Hello Herbert, welcome to our forum.
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Poor you :iconbiggrin: I just had a quick look and there must be at least a dozen everbearers available. It seems also that commercial growers are switching to everbearing varieties, which makes sense for the same reason I grow them. If you plant up a hydroponic system under cover as they seems to n...

I am of a slightly different opinion. The main variety I grow is Mara des Bois which is day neutral and runnerless. I have tried many, many "new" European commercial varieties and found most of them of them wanting. The main traits for these varieties are shelf life and the ability to put up with ro...