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I'm thinking of getting a chipper but have no idea where to start - my local tool hire doesn't do them anymore so I am thinking of getting a domestic one. I have a willow fedge so have lots of cuttings every year and I could really use the mulch!! All advice and ideas re what one to consider getting...

Bump, I've finally got my act a bit more together and gone 'live' with ravelry, lol. I'm fruitcake40 on there - found the ish group -

the.fee.fairy wrote:Agnes (pink) is from 1953 and Morag (black, treadle/electric) is from 1952.

Love their names, how did they get them?

I got lots of book tokens, so I've just finished "a streetcat named bob" by James Bowen and "the wolf within" Shaun Ellis. Both were 'couldn't put down' books. Waiting I've got "the witch of portobello" paulo coellho, (loved his other stuff), "state of wonder"...

Oh my goodness- it looks like mine could be 1902. It's electronic though so I'm well surprised. I will have to recheck - I thinks it's like yvette's and 1930s sounds more like it. My mum has just downsized and has let me have her singer which was I believe, her mothers before that but given my gran ...

Missed part 1 but saw part 2 last night, thought it was great. I hope it inspires and helps people realise that woods benefit from being managed.

Wow, that is stunning!

I've got NZ flat worms too and lots of earth worms - i dont nec think that you have no earthworms cos the flatworms have eaten them all but that the soil composition is a bit wonky. Having only recently made the discovery that I have flat worms i've been doing a fair bit of chatting to folks and som...

Got lots of rasps and blackcurrants tonight. And lifted my garlic which I think could be my best crop yet, despite some of it rotting off.. Oh and a cabbage - the brassicas seem to have decided to grow the birds have had the cherries and the redcurrants (again), lol
Woohoo, am very excited

I think I've got rust on 2 of my apple trees - it seems to have come in quick and fast, they are looking really sad. Any ideas what I should do? There's no fruit on them (again )

cheers, since posting this I've found good info here http://www.pfaf.org/user/Plant.aspx?Lat ... abingtonii
I've still not cooked with them but they are surviving well and the bulbils all grew

http://www.backwoodsman-stoves.co.uk/ near Oban is tops. Vg info and great supplier!

I made my own from scrap wood and left over polystyrene insulation. It's really just a large insulate box with wire on the bottom - heavier than chicken wire but that sort of thing. Stuck some horse poo in the bottom then layered it up with ordinary compost and a topping of leaf / grass type stuff. ...

I think it's great that you have a focus and a passion to dive. Why should you have to watch reality pish on tv. And why should you have to live on the street- we're supposed to help each other out and that's fab that your dad has bee in a position to help sort things out. I admire you for focussing...

I have a split personality on FB, lol - my 'work' ID is Di Oliver CWA and our page is facebook/Communitywoods - come and say hi :wave: we've got a growing woodlands page too which we hope to use to promote forest gardening and food production :thumbright: t'other one is for folks I know well and fam...