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Hey Pheobe. Tell us a bit about your situation and interests!

Safronsue, that's a terrible design you posted. Look what happened to it!
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Screening or shade netting is definitely the way to go.

Hessian sacking or old carpet work well too.

Hessian sacking or old carpet work well too.

If you want really strong plants, pot them up a bit deeper than they were to start with - they'll put up with being nearly buried! The buried stem sprouts new roots, just like a potato plant.

Why would anyone want to make pernod? Got paint to remove or something?

Holy schmoley that's nearly a Keder House!

Carltonian Man wrote:Colouration in the middle pic looks good for P Ostreatus (oyster mushroom), the other two pics suggest P Petaloides (antibiotic chemicals in the gelatinous flesh can cause intestinal problems so best avoided).

Could well be. A little early, but it's been very mild.

A bonfire and several glasses of the black stuff for me, I think - makes a good warmup for the solstice!

Have you looked into the LETS and Transition networks? Loads of Ishy type people in those.

The amount of times I have to walk backwards and forwards with watering cans makes it very handy to not have to hang around waiting for a watering can to fill. Hi MMM! Um... get a second can. That way you're watering with one while the other fills, and you can adjust the tap so that the timing's ju...

Usual butts on downspouts, and extruded PVC 'tunnel gutters' on the polytunnel.

's been done though. 'S called a beer mat!

'Kitty snipper'

just like one of those catflaps that won't let a cat in without a magnetic collar.

except this one lets them all in, but if they don't have the collar a guillotine blade cuts them in half. The prototype's working pretty well but I haven't solved the mess issue yet

The same - although instead of sulphur my grandad used wood ash. Works well enough if you've got some, but I'm not sure how necessary it is.