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we were bandying around the idea of keeping quails as a joke over lukch and the more I look into it the better an idea it seems (Chickens are so passe!)

Might be worth using coffee grounds too, Stabucks give away free coffee grounds to gardeners so it's worth asking in store.

Congrats - We've not long moved into a lovely big house to rent - with a garden Hubby has been busy turning into a fantastic herb patch. It's a lovely feeling to have space and room for everything. How we crammed everything that fits nicely into a large 3 bed house into a small 2 bed flat I really d...

If you leave them go to seed you should be ok, but herbs grwo quickly enough from seeds at the best of time.

I was more shocked that he was willing to spend £200 a month so he could have clean socks and pants every day - but at least he was going to make the effort to send his dirty ones to poorer countries. We missed a bit on the middle - what do they do about food - I assume they forage but we couldn't ...

There are pros and cons to both of them - And I do tend to use them both (Ok, maybe a little bit addicted to Facebook_. I find them handy for keeping in touch with the my healthy diaspora of friends - well I moved, most of them stayed put in South Wales. Facebook is a little easier to navigate and s...

I know most of the supermarkets here have plastic bag recycling.

We have a small cirus grove from pips - We don't think any will fruit but we kept popping Mandarin and lemon ppipcs into compost in a warm enviroment (on our storage heaters) until we got seedlings.

It's a good combination! Welcome.

i think we should put together some kind of beetroot receipe cookbook - a help to anyone with an allotment or veg box I'm sure!

Your could start knitting things for winter. I'm sure it will be scarf time soon enough!!

Shirlz wrote:Happy new house - you're still miles away but creeping northwards

actually - I've moved further south....

Try coming at it a differnt way - most of these things save the company money (Not having Air Con on etc). If you can get managemnt on board that way it sometimes works - espcieally if you could get them to agree to put some of the money saved towards Christmas parties etc.

I know with citrus fruit most seeds will grow something but not all of them will produce fruit. Not sure what the hit rate on other trees are. We've grown a small grove of citrus trees (4 lemon and 2 mandarin) but suspect they'll only every been green leafed things (we're saving them as gifts for pe...

Thanks. There's only so much veg you can grow in a 2 bed flat with no outside space!

I took a bit of exception that the ones quoted in the article wern't vegan - I'm sure many are. I know I used to work in catering, and we did throw a lot of stuff out. It annoyed me more in Subway when we tried to find a home for our surplus bread and bcause we couldn't guarentee quantities or someo...