Just wanted to say thank you!! I've been using the site for about three months now - you are my gurus for all things organic home grown and foraged!!
This year, for the first time, I have managed to grow my own runner beans, french green beans, tomatoes (avec blight but yummy green tomato soup!) courgettes, radishes, beetroot, carrots, lettuce, rocket as well as making blackberry, wild plum, victoria plum and green gage jam (all foraged) as well as sloe gin (again foraged).
The site is always there with helpful hints etc and now i have alcohol in my cupboard, jams, frozen soups and veg/fruit in the freezer and still stuff growing in the garden.
As a mum of a 5 year old and a 20 month old, working part time and running my own business I have proved that growing your own and getting whats free from your local area is very acheivable - really no excuse and it's healthier to boot!
Thank you to the ishers!
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hi whitevan38!
I've only just registered myself - after using the site for about a year!
Its great that your are using you garden for more than sterile lawn and plastic "things". It much easier then an allotment - it's there for you all the time (beckoning!!)
How about planting some blackcurrent bushes and strawberries now so you have healthy stuff for you and the kids next year
- good load of rich compost and they will do the rest.
I've only just registered myself - after using the site for about a year!
Its great that your are using you garden for more than sterile lawn and plastic "things". It much easier then an allotment - it's there for you all the time (beckoning!!)
How about planting some blackcurrent bushes and strawberries now so you have healthy stuff for you and the kids next year
- good load of rich compost and they will do the rest.-
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Welcome to ISH 
ISHing is a great way of life, isn't it? You get that lovely warm feeling of having done something worthwhile when you look at a jar of jam or a pan of beans.
Not only are you going to notice the finacial benifits of ISHing, but your kids will be learning so much about where their food comes from, the seasonal cycle and HOW TO COOK. They will be so much better off because your an ISH parent. Well done.
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ISHing is a great way of life, isn't it? You get that lovely warm feeling of having done something worthwhile when you look at a jar of jam or a pan of beans.
Not only are you going to notice the finacial benifits of ISHing, but your kids will be learning so much about where their food comes from, the seasonal cycle and HOW TO COOK. They will be so much better off because your an ISH parent. Well done.
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Welcome, you realise that now you have revealed yourself, you have to join in the debatesWhitevan38 wrote:Just wanted to say thank you!! I've been using the site for about three months now - you are my gurus for all things organic home grown and foraged!
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aHHHH THANKS EVERYONE - what a lovely welcome.
Healer, what sort of size do the bushes get to? Like the idea of that and would also like to plant an apple tree so need to look into the best time to plant one. There is an apple tree in two neighbouring gardens so it should be fine for pollination - or maybe a pear tree - any advise on wich is easier to grow/maintain??
I'm going to attempt to recover my dining chairs today with some new fabric (sadly not foraged!) - fingers crossed it goes ok.
You are right about teaching the children, it's so important and my daughter loves nothing better than to take four raw runner beans to school as part of her lunch or to walk up the garden and pull a couple of carrots for a snack. We have found a balance of using one border for vegetables and signed over some pots as well so we have pretty flowers as well as veg but to be honest the flowers on most of the veg plants were so pretty you wouldn't notice the difference.
I am so chuffed with the carrots so many in such a small space (plastic pot) have more coming but hopefully they'll survive the frosts which I am sure will make an appearance in the next couple of weeks.
Healer, what sort of size do the bushes get to? Like the idea of that and would also like to plant an apple tree so need to look into the best time to plant one. There is an apple tree in two neighbouring gardens so it should be fine for pollination - or maybe a pear tree - any advise on wich is easier to grow/maintain??
I'm going to attempt to recover my dining chairs today with some new fabric (sadly not foraged!) - fingers crossed it goes ok.
You are right about teaching the children, it's so important and my daughter loves nothing better than to take four raw runner beans to school as part of her lunch or to walk up the garden and pull a couple of carrots for a snack. We have found a balance of using one border for vegetables and signed over some pots as well so we have pretty flowers as well as veg but to be honest the flowers on most of the veg plants were so pretty you wouldn't notice the difference.
I am so chuffed with the carrots so many in such a small space (plastic pot) have more coming but hopefully they'll survive the frosts which I am sure will make an appearance in the next couple of weeks.
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hi Whitevan38
Blackcurrent bushes can get to about 4ft high and need to be about 6 feet apart - but you prune them each year - take out the stems that have fruited. A third to half the bush can be cut back to allow young shoots to develop as these are the ones that will bear the most fruit. OH is insisting I tell you to prep the soil well - deep hole, well rotted maure
I think they are a great fruit. You can juice and make wine, important for summer puddings and of course blackcurrent jam is very ummy - I top and tail for 3hrs and then jam whatever I've processed, those that can't be bothered to top and tale make jelly (cop out and not so good!!)
If you let the occasional onion, leak, lettuce, radish etc go to seed you get even better flowers
Blackcurrent bushes can get to about 4ft high and need to be about 6 feet apart - but you prune them each year - take out the stems that have fruited. A third to half the bush can be cut back to allow young shoots to develop as these are the ones that will bear the most fruit. OH is insisting I tell you to prep the soil well - deep hole, well rotted maure
I think they are a great fruit. You can juice and make wine, important for summer puddings and of course blackcurrent jam is very ummy - I top and tail for 3hrs and then jam whatever I've processed, those that can't be bothered to top and tale make jelly (cop out and not so good!!)
If you let the occasional onion, leak, lettuce, radish etc go to seed you get even better flowers