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- Tue Jul 16, 2013 11:36 am
- Forum: Home Brew and other Country Skills
- Topic: What i'm brewing at the moment
- Replies: 356
- Views: 236618
Re: What i'm brewing at the moment
Strawberry Wine on the go from the rather large number of strawberries the plot is producing right now.
- Fri Mar 22, 2013 11:39 pm
- Forum: Allotments, Veg Patches and Container Gardening
- Topic: What are you sowing ?
- Replies: 38
- Views: 23110
Re: What are you sowing ?
I'm sure we'll have a visit out to the place apart sometime soon. Till then, stop rubbing it in. Please ;)
- Fri Mar 22, 2013 2:33 pm
- Forum: Home Brew and other Country Skills
- Topic: Using old sterilising powder
- Replies: 6
- Views: 5393
Re: Using old sterilising powder
Starsan is great - a little goes a long way - but only works as a sanitation/sterilisation agent. It will not clean like VWP or bleach does.
- Fri Mar 22, 2013 2:23 pm
- Forum: Allotments, Veg Patches and Container Gardening
- Topic: What are you sowing ?
- Replies: 38
- Views: 23110
Re: What are you sowing ?
When did this spring thing happen? Snowing today and more snow and cold forecast for next week when we're away on holiday.
Perhaps it is best that I've not actually got on and sown anything yet, even though I've been meaning to sow onion and leeks since January!
Perhaps it is best that I've not actually got on and sown anything yet, even though I've been meaning to sow onion and leeks since January!
- Fri Aug 24, 2012 7:33 am
- Forum: Herbs and Vegetables
- Topic: What are you havesting
- Replies: 240
- Views: 146556
Re: What are you havesting
Small round courgettes, medium round courgettes, large round courgettes. Perhaps we should have removed all fruit before going away for a week.
Peas is the other thing right now. Purple podded peas and more usual green podded ones from a tall variety.
Peas is the other thing right now. Purple podded peas and more usual green podded ones from a tall variety.
- Tue Jul 31, 2012 11:48 am
- Forum: Looks like we made it
- Topic: So I have my treadle!
- Replies: 5
- Views: 4766
Re: So I have my treadle!
My mum still has an old Jones treadle machine which I don't think gets much use now but when me and my sisters were growing up was used for all sorts of alterations and garment making. We all were taught the basics of using it though I'm not sure I could remember it now (maybe with some practice). S...
- Thu Jul 19, 2012 8:48 pm
- Forum: Allotments, Veg Patches and Container Gardening
- Topic: Seed collecting
- Replies: 2
- Views: 2155
Re: Seed collecting
What, if anything are you doing to make sure you're getting true varietal seed? Assuming that is what you're after.
- Mon Jun 25, 2012 10:59 am
- Forum: Home Brew and other Country Skills
- Topic: Andy's Homebrew workshop...
- Replies: 8
- Views: 5114
Re: Andy's Homebrew workshop...
That is now an art to practice, pouring beer without disturbing the sediment in the bottom. It helps if you chill the bottles a little before pouring.
- Mon Jun 25, 2012 10:55 am
- Forum: Bring back the Goodlife - and other Television and Radio related things
- Topic: No Gardeners World for a month.
- Replies: 10
- Views: 21390
Re: No Gardeners World for a month.
I agree that bumping Gardeners World for a month isn't good
- Mon Jun 25, 2012 10:54 am
- Forum: Bring back the Goodlife - and other Television and Radio related things
- Topic: No Gardeners World for a month.
- Replies: 10
- Views: 21390
Re: No Gardeners World for a month.
You don't listen to Gardeners Question Time then?by julie_lanteri » Sun Jun 24, 2012 11:29 am
I thought the same... who's going to tell me what I should be doing in the garden at the weekend?
- Mon Jun 25, 2012 10:49 am
- Forum: Herbs and Vegetables
- Topic: What are you havesting
- Replies: 240
- Views: 146556
Re: What are you havesting
I found the first of the ripe strawberries when we were down the plot netting them off yesterday. Back home t'other half found a couple of ripe alpine strawberries :icon_smile: She also had a fertle around under one of the early potato plants and found a couple of new spuds that went into our dinner...
- Thu Jun 21, 2012 10:24 am
- Forum: Home Brew and other Country Skills
- Topic: corks
- Replies: 6
- Views: 3851
Re: corks
Also make sure you've degassed your wine or you'll get some of the CO2 that the yeast creates still in the liquid which comes out when you bottle up. This then causes the corks to push out a bit.
- Thu Jun 14, 2012 9:54 am
- Forum: Allotments, Veg Patches and Container Gardening
- Topic: Allotment fees.
- Replies: 8
- Views: 4061
Re: Allotment fees.
Ours are £25 for about 10m x 18m with £2.50 insurance each. No services on site but the site is only a few years old and we're all still finding our feet with it all.
- Tue May 29, 2012 9:42 pm
- Forum: The ish Local - (Chat)
- Topic: The Beers of Britain
- Replies: 19
- Views: 7988
Re: The Beers of Britain
Almost anything from the following breweries, Marble, Buxton, Magic Rock, RedWillow.
- Thu May 24, 2012 4:11 pm
- Forum: Allotments, Veg Patches and Container Gardening
- Topic: Battling the elements
- Replies: 22
- Views: 6574
Re: Battling the elements
I can't offer any advice, other than OJ may be right in his idea of getting lights in the polytunnel. Your description of the conditions you get make me thankful we get much less wild weather - though of course when you're watching things blowing round the allotments and the next weather front is ad...