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- Thu Aug 02, 2012 7:10 pm
- Forum: Herbs and Vegetables
- Topic: What are you havesting
- Replies: 240
- Views: 147121
Re: What are you havesting
More toms and... BLACKBERRIES!!! May get around to making my first batch of wine this year.
- Wed Aug 01, 2012 8:05 am
- Forum: The ish Local - (Chat)
- Topic: Slugs slugs slugs !!!!
- Replies: 26
- Views: 6545
Re: Slugs slugs slugs !!!!
There's lots you can plant at the moment, Yvette. Mostly leafy veg from what I can tell, but if you can hold of some first early varieties of carrots and peas they're good too. I'm not sure how they'll do, but I am kind of hoping for a late summer, it's got to stop raining at some point, yes? http:/...
- Tue Jul 31, 2012 6:34 pm
- Forum: Herbs and Vegetables
- Topic: What are you havesting
- Replies: 240
- Views: 147121
Re: What are you havesting
Tomatoes!!! And slugs. That is all.
- Tue Jul 31, 2012 5:41 pm
- Forum: Eco Parenting
- Topic: For those of you with children in school...
- Replies: 14
- Views: 23881
Re: For those of you with children in school...
We do workbooks for fun every now and again during the holidays, but most of their learning during school hols comes from stuff like trying to guess the fastest and slowest animals and seeing whether we were right, and then going off on a tangent to talk about the local peregrine falcon and what it ...
- Mon Jul 30, 2012 9:53 pm
- Forum: The ish Local - (Chat)
- Topic: Slugs slugs slugs !!!!
- Replies: 26
- Views: 6545
Re: Slugs slugs slugs !!!!
Coffee grounds - useless. It needs to be a really high caffeine concentrate to actually have an effect apparently. My coffee attempt did beggar all. God, the courgettes! I too expected them to be far too prickly for them. But I'm down 5 plants and counting. Like I said, the Brussels are the only thi...
- Mon Jul 30, 2012 3:15 pm
- Forum: What's in the pot? Recipes and anything about Cooking
- Topic: Potato Juice
- Replies: 19
- Views: 5615
Re: Potato Juice
You could always try to use it for some home made vodka.
- Mon Jul 30, 2012 1:17 pm
- Forum: The ish Local - (Chat)
- Topic: Slugs slugs slugs !!!!
- Replies: 26
- Views: 6545
Re: Slugs slugs slugs !!!!
Just introduced the eldest to chopping up slugs, she wasn't impressed. It was only when I explained they have a homing instinct and will be back to munch on her broad beans that she overcame being squeamish.
- Mon Jul 30, 2012 10:52 am
- Forum: The ish Local - (Chat)
- Topic: Slugs slugs slugs !!!!
- Replies: 26
- Views: 6545
Re: Slugs slugs slugs !!!!
I've tried gravel, salt, beer, bran... there's just too many of the damnable things though bran does seem to have helped. The only things they aren't chomping on are my brussels. I've given up on most of what is growing in the garden, I'm going out to dig most of the stuff up and restart the veggie ...
- Mon Jul 30, 2012 8:25 am
- Forum: How do I??
- Topic: Flax and linen
- Replies: 8
- Views: 4201
Re: Flax and linen
Here it is... https://sites.google.com/site/ancientcwmbran/project-groups/medieval-farming/growing-flax-making-linen Once you're ready to harvest the flax, pull it up with the roots and knock off all the soil. Then it needs to be dried - in this site they suggest tying into a bundle and leaving outs...
- Mon Jul 30, 2012 8:18 am
- Forum: How do I??
- Topic: Flax and linen
- Replies: 8
- Views: 4201
Re: Flax and linen
Depends how fine you want your linen. The sooner you pick after flowering the finer the cloth will be, although most wait until the flower wilts and the seed pod grows. If you pick when the seed pod is turning brown after that, you can harvest the seeds after the first drying. I think I found a site...
- Sun Jul 29, 2012 9:50 am
- Forum: How do I??
- Topic: Flax and linen
- Replies: 8
- Views: 4201
Re: Flax and linen
Niele - It sounds like your friend planted New Zealand flax. That's still great for fibres, though better suited to basket weaving and such.
If you're after linen, the linseed variety is best.
If you're after linen, the linseed variety is best.
- Sun Jul 29, 2012 9:43 am
- Forum: How do I??
- Topic: Flax and linen
- Replies: 8
- Views: 4201
Re: Flax and linen
Scutching is once you've dried your flax after retting. It's pretty much beating the flax, you hold it against a vertical board with one hand and beat with a wooden bat with the other. All the waste falls to the floor and you're left with your fibres ready to comb then spin your flax. I've only had ...
- Sun Jul 29, 2012 8:43 am
- Forum: Welcome New People Say Hello
- Topic: Hello :-) Long time lurker
- Replies: 10
- Views: 3002
Re: Hello :-) Long time lurker
Hi :) I was always rubbish with potted plants, but managed to get my first indoor tomatoes last year! Just struggling with keeping the outside ones alive with all the slugs. :roll: How old are the kids? If you can get them to help it's quite nice to grow some of the simpler ones together and take it...
- Mon Jul 23, 2012 8:40 pm
- Forum: Allotments, Veg Patches and Container Gardening
- Topic: how are your spuds doing?
- Replies: 13
- Views: 5222
Re: how are your spuds doing?
I got very few this year. I don't plant loads, 5 sacks (earlies) and 1 bin (maincrop), but the 5 sacks only had about 20 potatoes in, which is a lot less than last year. Not emptied the bin yet. To be honest, I'm blaming the slugs more than the weather for mine.
- Sat Jul 21, 2012 11:18 am
- Forum: The ish Local - (Chat)
- Topic: Views on Fostering
- Replies: 19
- Views: 7184
Re: Views on Fostering
Not fostered anyone, but have worked with lots of kids with behavioural problems, some were fostered. In that time I have ended up working with kids who have kicked, punched, head-butted, stole... I still intend to foster when the kids are older though ;-) I find the behaviour side easier to deal wi...