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Welcome to our forum Tbird, nice to meet you
Good luck with your plans, one thing's for sure you can't beat freshly harvested fruit and vegetables.

Carrying on from Doofa's idea, what's wrong with a cheap shed, maybe even with no door, just to sit in when a shower comes along?
Just a small shed, nothing stored in it, serving as shelter and rainwater harvesting.

Hiya Doofa, nice to see you again, where you bin?

...and grow a pot or two of tomatoes, they're a doddle on a south(ish) facing windowsill.

These people who find second hand mattresses objectionable, I wonder what they would think of feather mattresses? I spent the first 8 years of my life sleeping in a feather bed, which was replenished every now and again when a few chicken were slaughtered. I loved it as you could snuggle down in a h...

I'm firmly in the camp of "it will come in useful one day", and so I keep nearly everything that could have a use, or could be used to repair something else. Last year we had a skip in and I foolishly threw a lot of stuff, just so my wife could get her car in the garage, and at least twice since I h...

I always thought that carrot fly was attracted to carrots by smell, and parsnips smell nothing like carrots. But that could be an old wive's tale as well ... not that I'm suggesting that you're an old wife, Flo. :iconbiggrin: On the other hand there was a very large vine weevil grub buried in the mi...

Good theory Flo, except I am growing Guernsey parsnips next to Countess F1 parsnips and the Countess are canker free (and a better texture and flavour)

Years ago before F1 seeds were commonly available I always had problems with my sprout plants. I only needed about 6 plants and every year some of those plants had problems, stunted growth, open "blown" sprouts with maybe 2 growing into useful productive plants. Then Peer Gynt F1 appeared in seed ca...

That sounds like the Tiny Tim tomatoes I grew when I first started trying to grow all year round tomatoes. They are indeed a bit on the small side, marble sized here, but did behave and made a tidy bush in a small flower pot. Coincidentally I have just started another batch of tomatoes, destined to ...

the amount of land you need to feed one person when the diet is beef focused is far greater than the amount of land needed when the diet is bean and grain Yes, I've had this quoted to me several times, mainly by vegans. This premise presupposes that ALL agricultural land is prime arable that is bei...

All I was trying to do was to point out how ludicrous this "diet" is. It was "designed" to help save the planet, but recommends shipping rice from half way round the world in ships that burn the dirtiest oil going .... instead of potatoes that I can grow myself, or buy from the farmer next door. It ...

I assume that you have all seen or heard this over the last few days ... https://www.bbc.com/news/health-46865204 Can someone explain to me why it's better for me to eat lots of rice, that has to be transported literally half way round the world, than it is to eat lots of potatoes from just up the r...

Sorry to hear that Flo, not the sort of thing anyone wants let alone an active person like yourself. The only good ? thing is it happened when it did, and you should be fit and raring to go when the main sowing season starts. Assuming of course that you dug your allotments back in the autumn :iconbi...

Good job you put brackets in there Ina, or it would have read .....

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Thu Jan 10, 2019 2:37 pm

the French Polish will do