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From my limited knowledge about wild watercress, Liver-Fluke is the thing you need to be cautious of... so do a little research into that. I'm sure I read somewhere that cooking it dramatically reduces the risk though, but don't take that as gospel! This just came up in a quick search. June Fanning ...

janerowena wrote:Getting the outer casing off is vile, though - get some of those thin plastic gloves.

BUT, the smell is fantastic!
Well, the crushed leaves at else!

Actually, do you think it'd be doable to make essential oil from them? Then I could make some shampoo and all sorts of fun stuff!

a double sided wall with the linings touching in the middle? I think that aslong as you staked them or something it would be awesome idea! :) it could be interesting for some nifty little design concepts. Space permitting, I've always wanted to make cubes out of sheets of chicken fencing in ascendin...

Great share! Thanks :)

Thanks to everyone for being so helpful :cheers: I feared that the method Tony posted may take up far too much of my small kitchen, so i tried the less time intensive one in hope that there will be less stuff around for a shorter period. heh. I threaded it all with cotton and put it over a tray in t...

I've tried a few methods which I had found online, but with very mixed results.

I wondered if anyone had any tried and tested methods/family recipies?

Thanks! :)

"I stand corrected"... Said the man in the oethopedic shoes. ...But, quips aside, pedantic you are, heh! - as I clearly wasn't refering to Nicotiana grown as an ornamental. And refering to it instead as tobacco very much has all the implications of me making reference to anyone growing it ...

hi oldjerry, it's the only reason that a lot of us get by....... but it still don't make it right. :dontknow: Now now kind Sir, I think it's just a personal moral thing, people bend the law in all kinds of 'little' ways and decide for themselves whether or not it is offensive to their own conscienc...

P.s. I know that some may argue that it seems silly to use any electricity what-so-ever, but from a personal-interest/amateur-botanics/sunday-scientist point of view it feels worth the few pence it costs to run, and also it seems to have dramatically increased germination rates from last year.

Hello! This year I've been using some horticultural bulbs for a few hours each day in my cuboard to give seedlings a kick start, and they all seem to be going pretty much okay (especially the Tomatos, Pak Choi, Tobacco and Melons) but i was wondering if anyone knows whether they'd grow even stronger...

Making fruit leather out of them works a treat too! And, I don't think I'm dead.

You could go all fashionista on everyone's behind and start growing Synsepalum Dulcificum... it'd save you a fortune, seeing as you could just eat the grass and the roses, yet it'd taste like honied artichokes and 'refreshers', ha :wink: Plus, they sell for 2 or 3 quid a berry at posh farmers markets.

I may be wrong, but i think that paper was always made from Morus papyrifera/Paper Mulberry bark, which i've never seen for sale or seen one in person to be honest. I don't doubt that you could grow one though. It'd be a massive pain to get the cambium or inner bark from a black mulberry tree, becau...

Heh, you definitely aren't the only one. I go so attached to all the tigerella tomoato seedlings I grew last year that i planted the ones I didn't have room for in a local park. It seemed to work out, as when i popped back during the summer they were mostly gone. Some foragers got an intruiging surp...

If it must be known, I am sufficiently obsessed with Morus trees, especially the Nigra. The fruit, the edible leaves, the fact that they sometimes force themselves over and root from their branches (which I always saw as a their renditioin of a person fainting to get the blood back to their head). O...