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from what I remember carding is quite an easy, relaxing job.

But cleaning a fleece is a pretty rotten job. We did ours (in my textile class) in pieces in a huge bowl but it was slimey and quite smelly and took ages.
(the lanolin made our hands beautiful and soft though)

you know, I read a very good article (possibly in the Daily mail :wink: ) that pointed out how people can become complacement when faced with the enormous problem of world climate change. It suggested that folks find it too big to comprehend, feel the problems are insurmountable, that their contribu...

I have made baskets with willow I bartered for, does that count? :lol: Basket weaving is one of those skills that is so satisfying, I heartily reccomend it. Remember only to cut your willow 'withies' when the sap's down (in England that is between October and February) then you sort into bundles of ...

ohareward wrote:Hi flower. You were looking in the Good part as being the Bad. Onions and carrots do go together.

Robin

Doh! another senior moment!

gosh!

I always interplant onions with carrots (and nigella) to confuse the carrot fly.
I thought they were great companions!

I think that crop rotation is very useful when growing large amounts of the same thing. eg brassicas which include many crops of the same family and therefore, prone to the same pests and diseases (namely clubroot and whitefly) both of which are vastly reduced by crop rotation. Companion planting is...

although I have to say I've not seen a single live bumblebee for several weeks and I know several people who have been finding dead bats (my mum has found three so far this week in her garden)
I have no idea why

aaaah! same as what happened to us. Never mind.....I've read that chooks get better at looking after themselves each time they try brooding. For now, I would suggest turfing her off the nest several times a day (and stopping her from going straight back in) so that she is forced to feed and drink. C...

I lost one to a fox the other week.
The remaining four were certainly upset because they stopped laying for a couple of days, but they seem okay now.

Horrible isn't it?
but (at least in our case) mercifully quick

I like 'beehive' compost bins. Not the tarty, garden centre jobs, but the ones you make yourself by constructing lots of open squares (we used pallet planks) with the corner posts set to start half way up so they stick out the top (for the next square to go onto) this makes it very easy to move/ mix...

or google egg candling (you can shine a torch thru them to see there's a chick inside) although....from what I've read, it's unlikely :? two days before hatching they start making audible cheep cheep noises apparently. However....I would hang in there a wee bit longer because my chook chucked the eg...

90. pass on all the above wisdom to your children.

I'm a bit of a baby when it comes to peppers so I grow mild ones

what variety are yours?

I read somewhere that stressed plants generate heat so maybe be cruel, let them dry out a bit?

never done it myself but as I understand it, if they are being hatched by a broody hen, she will protect and rear them. All you need to do is ensure they have a safe environment (marbles in the water bowl, no holes that they can get thru but mum can't follow, nowhere to get their little leggys caugh...

mine are the same, I couldn't find any beasties though.
I removed affected leaves and they seem to be doing okay now