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I can never be bothered blanching my beans, I just put them on trays and freeze them. They taste ok but then, I've never tasted blanched and frozen beans...am I missing something?

I planted gladiator as well as several other varieties on a deep bed that had not been composted this year but had loads of the stuff last year. I gave them potash and potassium...and what did I get, ....really big, healthy WEEDS!!!!

you can have bees on your allotment because they are insects and, strictly speaking, not yours. TRhere are probably bees already there ...they are just coming from somewhere else....even if ther is no hive. I joined the local beekeeping society which I found on the internet. The societies run a foun...

I thought you were serious and it certainly upset me...I've been thinking of leaving the forum anyway and your post just about finished it for me! I don't think cruelty is funny.

I always mulch with leaf mould or spent hops whichever I happen to have. I mulched the fruit cage with leaf mould on top of a good mulch of manure and it was graet for thr fruit cage....absolutely no weeds. I used spent hops on the winter beans and beetroot and again no weeds, and I haven't had a pr...

I now have beetroot, swede and turnips that I want to keep for the winter. I will cook some of the beets and store them in vinegar but I would really like to freeze some of these veg or store them some way so that I could use them fresh. I'm not really into making a cloch from soil as I have nowhere...

my lettuce and rocket have both bolted..I've eaten the lettuce and it tasted just the same, I just cut off the bolted bit. my rocket is flowering like mad so I will just plant some more..it did this last year and the second crop was fine

don't mention parsnips...I've put 7 ( yes SEVEN) packets of seeds in and none have come up.
I'd plant beet root, and brassicas, salad greens and herbs.

here's the recipe I use every year. I've had it 30 years but I suspect it's an old war time recipe 6lb (3kg) marrow (prepared weight) 2oz (50g) root ginger....but put in according to taste juice and grated rind of 4 lemons 6lb (3kg) sugar 1) Peel the marrows and remove the seeds 2) cut the flesh int...

mine are in a small plastic green house some one gave me...bell peppers and organic jalpeno ones that I planted from seed ( from the organic gardening society) and I am already eating both types. I collect seaweed from the beach and put it in the compost and then feed the plants on liquid manure mad...

ok, so bees are not strictly speaking livestock, being insects, but mine are happily ( I think) living in their hive in the shed on my allotment. Apparently you can keep bees anywhere and no one has the power to make you move them. At least that's what the Council and all the bee books say. Next yea...

thanks, Ina, I'll get on the bbc website and try and find the item as I am looking to get hens as soon as I sell this house and buy my small holding ( house going on the market tomorrow)

thanks, everyone, my trouble was that I planted what I thought were cucumbers and they weren't they were courgettes.....I pick them everyday, give them away freely to anybody who will have them and still have 31 courgettes in the fridge...we eat them everyday. I have lots of marrow and ginger jam ( ...

I've a glut of courgettes, probably the same as many other people, any one any ideas for things that I can cook to use them up...something that will freeze...or perhaps a courgette relish or pickle???

you can sometimes get chickens from the local animal rescue centre....my friend got hers there and that's where I shall get mine...50p each...rescued from the battery farm