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- Fri Oct 20, 2006 6:29 pm
- Forum: 101 Uses For
- Topic: 101 personal hells!
- Replies: 20
- Views: 13849
- Fri Oct 20, 2006 6:27 pm
- Forum: 101 Uses For
- Topic: 101 white lies you tell your children or were told???
- Replies: 61
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Chewing gum is made out of elephants ears Thats not an icecream man - its the kiddy catcher No those aren't chocolate chips in the cake - they are mushrooms and you hate mushrooms!! (My daughter didn't eat the cake for two weeks. The following week we told her that it was full of micro protien - a r...
- Fri Oct 20, 2006 6:14 pm
- Forum: 101 Uses For
- Topic: 101 uses for vinegar
- Replies: 24
- Views: 17896
- Fri Oct 20, 2006 6:09 pm
- Forum: 101 Uses For
- Topic: 101 little things that tell you you're self-sufficientish
- Replies: 44
- Views: 25954
92 Completely losing the ability to look at anything for what it is - instead you look at it for what it could be with a bit of ingenuity, elbow grease or several hours cooking! 93 Wondering why you aren't filthy rich by now - after all you buy all your clothes from the charity shop, grow your own v...
- Fri Oct 20, 2006 11:13 am
- Forum: Allotments, Veg Patches and Container Gardening
- Topic: Mini poly tunnels (or big cloches)
- Replies: 10
- Views: 4487
Visit you local building site - they have loads of useful stuff being put in the skip. (The UK building industry is one of the highest in construction material wastage in Europe). It will probably work out well on both sides - the more they donate to you the less they have to have taken away!! One t...
- Wed Oct 18, 2006 8:21 pm
- Forum: Allotments, Veg Patches and Container Gardening
- Topic: Mini poly tunnels (or big cloches)
- Replies: 10
- Views: 4487
Mini poly tunnels (or big cloches)
As I work on building sites I've managed to pick up unused lengths of alkythene pipe and if you put it into a roll and cut it you end up with nice big hoops that can be fastened to boards, pegged to the ground and then stretch polyethene over the top. The lengths I have will cover a bed that's about...
- Wed Oct 18, 2006 7:56 pm
- Forum: Welcome New People Say Hello
- Topic: Hya!
- Replies: 13
- Views: 5107
- Wed Oct 18, 2006 11:34 am
- Forum: Wild Foods and Foraging
- Topic: blackberrying injuries
- Replies: 19
- Views: 11041
A soap and sugar poltice works wonders for drawing out thorns and spelks etc. Its really easy - just put a but of soap onto the pad bit of a plaster - I use the jelly stuff you find in the soap dish or even liquid soap - and the sprinkle sugar onto the soap, the but it on the sore bit! I usually do ...
- Wed Oct 18, 2006 11:29 am
- Forum: Wild Foods and Foraging
- Topic: Wild Food Christmas Prezzies
- Replies: 10
- Views: 4890
Wild Food Christmas Prezzies
We've decided that this year we would like to give our nearest and dearest home made prezzies. So far we've made sloe gin (and managed not to drink all of it!). We've collected acorns to make acorn flour - but aren't too sure of recipes etc. I'd love to hear of any biscuit recipes or similar using a...
- Wed Oct 18, 2006 11:20 am
- Forum: Welcome New People Say Hello
- Topic: ey up!
- Replies: 15
- Views: 6562
- Wed Oct 18, 2006 11:16 am
- Forum: Welcome New People Say Hello
- Topic: Hya!
- Replies: 13
- Views: 5107
Hya!
Hi there - we are Chris and Helen and we are lucky enough to live in a small village by the sea in the lovely North East. Since Chris came along last year he has worked miracles with my garden - before that local kids used to come in and play Little House on the Prarie in it!! Anyway - we've started...
- Wed Oct 18, 2006 11:01 am
- Forum: Eco Products and Innovations
- Topic: Soapods?
- Replies: 19
- Views: 11723
- Tue Oct 17, 2006 3:24 pm
- Forum: Allotments, Veg Patches and Container Gardening
- Topic: vitaligo
- Replies: 19
- Views: 8178
- Mon Oct 16, 2006 9:18 pm
- Forum: Allotments, Veg Patches and Container Gardening
- Topic: Slugs
- Replies: 1
- Views: 1337
Slugs
I couldn't find the posting about how to deal with slugs so I thought that I'd just write my tip here anyway!! We've managed to keep slugs off plants by putting sea weed around them - its either wet and salty or dry and spiky - either way the don't like it!! After a while you can just dig it into th...
- Mon Oct 16, 2006 9:15 pm
- Forum: Allotments, Veg Patches and Container Gardening
- Topic: vitaligo
- Replies: 19
- Views: 8178