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I've been snooping on this http://www.pfaf.org/user/default.aspx website recently for ideas. I've just 'released' into my flower (ish) beds 29/ Babbington leeks - have yet to eat cos i've been growing them to see what they do as i couldnt find out any info (prior to finding the above website) 30/ tr...

not seen the programme (no sky) but read a really interesting blog t'other day http://naturalmomstalkradio.com/blog/assume/ - it made me think about my own attitudes! - where the blogger has a quality rant about similar issues re perceptions of her lifestyle - i really like her solution as the daft ...

Thomzo wrote:Pallets are just great aren't they?

yep
we built our log store from 'em. Folks I know through work are making compost bins from them - with bits of old hose pipe for hinges

StripyPixieSocks wrote:My motto... spent a few pence more, support your local community, eat less of better quality items it's better all around not to mention for your health!

am totally with you on that one - I read Shopped years ago and then a couple of years ago I read nef's Te$copoly - defo well worth a read too!

It's lovely - good luck and happy selling

there's heaps of the dam stuff round here - great to hear that it has it's uses - i read somewhere else recently that it's good for the bees too. I'm still sulking cos I found some in my garden this year - bah humbug At least i know i can eat it although I'm not going to let it go to seed :? can't b...

one way to cope wwith large quantities of grass clippings is mulch between the potato rows as they part rot by the time the potatoes are ready to be harvested and they get dug in at the same time. grass clipping are good between rows of carrots too - helps form a layer to keep the fly out :cheers: ...

Just moved into a lovely old cottage circa 1600's and the economy 7 heating and single glazed windows are driving me nuts already :roll: Can't think of anything else.... I used to put cling film or 2 inch masking tape over / round single glazed windows in the days when i inhabited such properties -...

The skin on our polytunnel is ripped to shreds oh my... I've only just marked an area out for my polytunnel and laid some plastic and other stuff over the grass to start to kill it down - have put loads of timber and stones along it to try and keep it down - so far it's not escaped (much) - have re...

A belated 'hello' from me too
- love your flower fairy avatar my fav books - I have my mums copies which are gorgeous

some bits and pieces of info on these websites
http://www.lowcarboncairngorms.org/woodfuel/index.asp
http://www.forestry.gov.uk/england-woodfuel

have some of ours - it's pi$hed it down for 3 weeks here - blew 110mph on Monday, hailstone showers and been cold. Loads of trees down across the area, something like 40+ yachts broke there moorings and washed up on the shore on the west coast. All the trees and plants in my (and everyone elses here...

Brill

We have underfloor heating, but set in concrete with wood or tiles over the top - love it. It's a really efficient way of heating the house - partly cos the concrete acts as a heat sink. It takes a wee while to get used to if you like the way radiaters come on and off, cos it's a more constant, mell...

hello
from the south west highlands
(am with spider8 on the noseyness too, lol)