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I love Home farmer, and Grow Your Own and also Permaculture magazine. Home farmer is really good for cooking and building things and animal husbandry. I like GYO for reminding me when to sow and plant what. PM is really interesting and different, and covers green issues if you are interested.

Hi Sarah,

We have just done the same thing with our daleks and built new bins from old pallents, we are using one dalek for leaf mulch and the other one for storage. The rhubarb forcer sounds a good idea, never though of that!

I totally agree with you, I have read this book twice now and love it! Make a lovely Xmas pressie for someone. Rachel.

Hi Rosie, I purchased this book from them after ordering lots of new seeds. I am finding it a very interesting book, full of facts and also lots about the history of seeds which I found very good reading. If you are just interested in saving the seed and need instruction on this only then the instru...

Many thanks for all your suggestions, I am going to make soup and freeze and the other very yummy recipe and also leave some in a clamp at the allotment. Take care

How exciting, best of luck with the rocket and the forest garden

Wow thanks again Maggie! Have you grown it yet or next year?

Thanks Maggie, didn't mean to show off! Only thing that we did have lots of, i suppose i could freeze the soup! LOL!

I have rather a lot of celery, it was only supposed to be a few plants but they all germinated and grew really well! Does anyone know if you can freeze it? I can't really eat anymore celery soup. Any recipes welcome? Thanks

I have been making yogurt for many years now and have tried various methods and milks and have found long life full fat milk mixed with milk powder and yogurt to be the best method, I don't have an airing cupboard so use a yogurt maker from lakeland, that is really just a plug in thermos. I make it ...

Hi there, I was wondering if anyone has grown Turkish Rocket, I heard about it on Gardener's World ages ago and they said it was a perennial? I was wondering how tasty it was etc? Thanks

Many thanks to all of you who replied, I am going to preserve them in jars for xmas, using the recipe Jim has posted. It is the second year of fruiting so not too many, just need to let them ripen up a bit as very hard.

Thank you very much Jim, it sounds lovely. Do you think I should wait until pears ripen as they are all rock hard at the moment? Thanks Rachel.

Can anyone help? I have a lot of pears that i have just picked and are currently stored in trays to ripen. I would like to preserve them in a syrup or wine, does anyone know any good recipes? Also should the pears be ripe or not when I begin? many thanks Rachel.

Thanks for suggestion, will do