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6 tonnes of logs for jam. That's a pretty good deal! Thats some bartering Id like to get into.

Gnocchi with the most amazing ragu sauce ever made from toulouse sausages and tomatoes with fennel seeds and some dried herbs from summer AND psb and kale smothered in butter. Mmmm Celebrating tonight because one of the places I work just got some funding . Happy happy.

Hi and welcome. Where in Yorkshire are you? I was born up high near Halifax and miss my county. :o)

I know someone who grows kudoo specifically for it's shading properties in a polytunnel so up and over a pergola so she can use the space beneath for growing spinach and other things that like to bolt in a tunnel in the summer months. V worthwhile and they're bleeding expensive to buy!

Daubentons sounds interesting, might have to seek that out as we are kale junkies despite doing battle with magpies over it. Grr. Will give yakon a miss then we have j.artichokes, more than we can eat so seems like a non starter.

I grew achocha a couple of years running. You get a fair bit from them and they're very easy. We ate the young and thought they tasted a bit like cucumber. Not the exploding variety though. You can buy the seeds from www.real seeds.co.uk. Has anyone tried growing yacon? Thinking about it this year b...

That sounds like a plan and I have seen them made like that from afar on an allotment that I cycle past. How do you attach the windows to a frame though... My diy skills are not brill.

Any poooooo will dooooo. Grand. The police horses get exercised up and down a path by our lotty so we'll go out and get scooping. Should be a lovely job.

I'm liking this a lot. Do you think you could get that kind of temp with cow poo and straw? I know chicken poo creates some serious heat but no chickens on our site at the moment.

Hello all. I'm now managing one plot for a youth group / community centre that I work for and have 2 half plots of my own that I work on with my girlfriend and a friend so the time has come for us to buy a poly and greenhouse to give us a fighting chance of starting off enough plants and to extend o...

This is brilliant, thanks for the link will def be trying this as a germination technique this year. Will probably do it for peppers and aubergines as well. Reckon it will work well for anything that needs an early start. We're going to struggle with somewhere warm and bright to continue to raise th...

Welcome. Maine looks fantastic. Jealous of your proper hills :o).

Merry Christmas ishers. Wishing everyone a lovely peaceful relaxing day and a new year full of joy and accomplishments. x

That was the plan oldjerry but I think we're spending this evening drinking and dancing.
Bit wet for getting out and planting this evening here anyway x

Well done him / her. In our case it's def' just kids ( we know because someone has seen them climbing over the gate) 3 sheds and a greenhouse set fire to in one night :angryfire: Makes you fume. One of the sheds had a can of petrol in for a strimmer so they're lucky they didn't cause themselves some...