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as an experienced market gardener I'd say think outside the box, maybe investigate herbs/ flowers. I know of one small holding on the Black Isle with naff soil that grows arnica for medicine companies. It's an easyish cash crop that only needs harvested, dried and delivered once a year. The small co...

these guys are good;

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Rob

there's a lady who rents one of the polytunnels at my work to do just that, she works two days a week and occasionaly at the weekends for events such as weddings. It seems to work out okay because she's done it for 2 years.

Like I said these schemes already exist, just not very many of them and they're not called national service. For the record, young Germans have to do either military national service or social national service for a year after school. The social type can be done anywhere in the EU and includes volun...

I've just moved on to another job from a place that did exactly that. After six years there all I can say is - you can present the material but you cant always make them care. Look up care farming, the Cyrenians Farm, Highfield happy hens and you'll get the idea. I now work on a farm where people ar...

I think the flowering stage comes after the plant has invested the optimum amount of energy in the tubers. The flowers being the next reproductive stage where they produce the tomato like fruit. It's always meant the tubers were ready for lifting to me. On commercial, conventional farms they kill of...

Nuala Kennedy.

I thought the title of the thread was a typo... I'll need to show it to my wife and see what she makes of it....

cum creme caramels, blech. :)

Agree with all that, plus you can eat apples with scab.

A 3ft leccy fence keeps chickens with clipped wings where they should be.

That would work, bypassing the smelly breath too which would be a bad side effect for an aphrodisiac.

I think allicin helps promote blood flow...

believe it or not - they say raw garlic works for men...

wash your hair with it.

I thought black mould was very rare in the field and occurred when harvesting in damp conditions or improper storage? And I thought it was on the bulbs not the stems? I've seen it start prior to harvesting and I've seen it creep up the stem. Careless weeding can start it off if the roots get distur...

I hope thats not black mould at the bottom of the stalk.