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- Mon Aug 23, 2010 12:07 pm
- Forum: What's in the pot? Recipes and anything about Cooking
- Topic: Anyone else jam making at the moment?
- Replies: 39
- Views: 10648
Re: Anyone else jam making at the moment?
My best bit of foraging for jam has been mulberries at the local old folks home. Amazing fruit which has made delicious jam, although it did take quite a bit of pectin to make it set. Have also made yummy cherry jam and blackberry jam, all foraged fruit. Going back for some more blackberries this we...
- Fri Aug 13, 2010 2:18 pm
- Forum: Allotments, Veg Patches and Container Gardening
- Topic: Where do I start with my veggie patch
- Replies: 11
- Views: 3398
Re: Where do I start with my veggie patch
kate, I love the idea of planting carrots in an old linen basket. I think I have something suitable lurking behind the shed actually. Although I said I wouldn't bother with potatoes, I might do some charlottes, as they are delicious and expensive, so might have a go at them in a container as well. I...
- Sat Aug 07, 2010 3:31 pm
- Forum: Allotments, Veg Patches and Container Gardening
- Topic: Where do I start with my veggie patch
- Replies: 11
- Views: 3398
Re: Where do I start with my veggie patch
Thank you all for your advice. I will keep sowing my lettuces in pots for now - I have been doing that all summer - and then clear the patch a bit at a time and dig in lots of manure if I can get hold of some. Where do you all get your seeds? They do very cheap ones in Wilkinsons here but they aren'...
- Thu Aug 05, 2010 7:04 am
- Forum: Allotments, Veg Patches and Container Gardening
- Topic: Where do I start with my veggie patch
- Replies: 11
- Views: 3398
Where do I start with my veggie patch
I have covered over an area at the bottom of the garden with an old tarpaulin in preparation for a new veggie patch I am planning. So far I have grown courgettes in grobags, some pumpkins on a bare patch of flower bed and I have tomatoes and herbs in pots. But I need to expand!! So, where do I start...
- Thu Jun 10, 2010 12:23 pm
- Forum: Herbs and Vegetables
- Topic: Most "money-saving" vegetable
- Replies: 68
- Views: 26642
Re: Most "money-saving" vegetable
Soft fruit has to be mine as I am a big jam and pudding maker - raspberries, strawberries, red and blackcurrants. Now that I have moved house I am having to start from scratch, so this year may have to wait for the blackberries to forage, or get down to the fruit farm and pick my own
- Tue Jun 08, 2010 7:50 pm
- Forum: Wild Foods and Foraging
- Topic: Elderflower season is here!
- Replies: 30
- Views: 10153
Re: Elderflower season is here!
Was wondering today if I had missed them - they must be out by now! I used to find them when I was dog walking but no longer have a dog to walk so I will have to make a special trip out. I always had to freeze my cordial inthe past as I could never get it to stay fresh no matter what hygiene steps I...
- Tue Jun 08, 2010 5:29 am
- Forum: Welcome New People Say Hello
- Topic: Back again
- Replies: 4
- Views: 1408
Back again
The real old timers might remember me - I was a regular visitor a couple of years ago. But over-work, divorce and a house move forced me off the internet! Now that I am settling into single parenthood on a proper frugal lifestyle I am just re-developing an interest in all things green, thrifty and s...
- Fri Apr 18, 2008 6:40 am
- Forum: The ish Local - (Chat)
- Topic: who would you choose to meet
- Replies: 38
- Views: 8003
- Fri Apr 18, 2008 6:38 am
- Forum: What's Going On?
- Topic: Just for fun... - pick a page
- Replies: 74
- Views: 31975
- Fri Apr 18, 2008 6:34 am
- Forum: The ish Local - (Chat)
- Topic: I've got a granite trough!
- Replies: 23
- Views: 4295
- Sat Apr 05, 2008 6:36 am
- Forum: The ish Local - (Chat)
- Topic: Outdoor loo
- Replies: 3
- Views: 1582
- Sat Apr 05, 2008 6:34 am
- Forum: I read the news today, oh boy.
- Topic: Living on foraged food for a year!
- Replies: 16
- Views: 5408
You lot are so cynical!!!! I was reading about him in The Ecologist and this month he can choose from: birch and lime sap; winter cress; chickweed; hairy bittercress (hairy??); scurvy grass; sea puslane, japanese knotweed; wild garlic; alexanders; charlock; honesty; reed mace; nettles; cleavers; woo...
- Sat Apr 05, 2008 6:28 am
- Forum: The ish Local - (Chat)
- Topic: Word Association game
- Replies: 3191
- Views: 622224
- Sat Apr 05, 2008 6:27 am
- Forum: The ish Local - (Chat)
- Topic: Green Twins
- Replies: 39
- Views: 6982