Selfsufficientish.com

This year we grew white emergo? climbing beans, we have collected quite a few dry mature seeds, has anyone ever cooked them???? and if so how and what did you use them in, The beans are quite big remind me a bit of butter beans........

Nope, but thanks anyway, will be doing them tomorrow.

Has anyone got a recipe for pickled cucumber,?not the tiny gerkin type but the biggies, we have been given several ridge cucumbers and it occured to me I could pickle them to eat during the winter with bread and cheese.

Tina,

Go to the top of this page and you will see a thing that says you have a private message, click on it enter your details and you should find the message there.................its under the selfsufficientish.com heading.

Hi Tina,

I have sent you a PM in reply to the entry you put on my entry. Get in touch and we will see what we can do to 'educate' you in self sufficiency.

If you do a search under my name you will find some of the other posts I have put on the board about various things.

Try using half a cup of washing soda in your machine with half the amount of your usual powder. Use vinegar instead of softner. The washing soda will clean out any smelly detergant in your pipes and the vinegar neautralises the water. You can try an experiment, wash your clothes without any powder, ...

We are not allowed to use cardboard, carpet or anything of the like, its a big no-no with our local council. We have covered a large area with black plastic to try and get the weeds to die down, we have decided to leave the beds we do not need to cultivate for now and dig them in the autumn taking o...

It hasn't got there cos I filled in the hole!!!!!

That was my idea too to stop especially the mustard from setting seed, it does pull out quite easily at the moment but there is so much of it, I hope to cut off another bed when we go later this week. We cannot keep hens on our allotment otherwise I would do so, we have an urban fox who caused quite...

:? :? :? We went to the allotment today and I cut the front part with the shears, :lol: :lol: it looks much better now, we also managed to get the belle de fonteney weeded, another bed turned over and the strawberry bed weeded. There is still a lot more to do, but we are getting there, wish it would...

Thank you for your replies, the front part of the allotment we plan to seed with wild flowers eventually, the rest is bits of the beds which we have not been able to dig, I wanted to cut down the grass nettles and mustard just to try and keep them under control until we get round to digging and plan...

We need to get either one or the other to keep the weeds on our uncultivated bit of the allotent under control..... any suggestions, under £70 if poss cannot really afford to spend more than that and less would be great. We have been away for two seperate weeks and could hardly seet he spud bed w...

:oops: :oops: I have just realised that I actually put a bit on here when we first took over the allotment at the end of last year.........to bring you up to date, we found at the turn of the year that we could no longer afford to keep our touring caravan, so we have sold it, so no more trips to Fra...

:roll: I have lurked on the site for a while, but its time I came out of the woodwork :cheers: :cheers: My husband and I are retired living on the outskirts of Leicester, we have an allotment where we grow all our veg and fruit, we have a garden but the back is gravelled so use it to grow salad, her...

Unfortunately eating it is not an option its on a bank right at the side of a busy main road and will be heavily contaminated with pollutants from the buses cars etc that pass by. I would prefer not to use chrmicals in my own garden but think this might be the only asnwer in this one, my freind want...