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No Demi, not the stuff you can see.... You should NEVER eat corn without Juicing it first, or else it just comes out in your pooooooooooo looking like, well like it did when it went in! ( ok you have to chew it first!) This is so interesting, could we have a series of photo's to illustrate, plus wi...

We got the one in the CAT catalogue. It was ok but you need an awful lot of pressure to get the water out which is tricky as if you put too much pressure on the handles they were in danger of getting bent, then the bricks took an age to dry out, if you could find one that you stand on that would do ...

true about the stink, the first lot we bought smelt really awful, but we got some here that was great and has stayed on well, will have to try and dig out the pot and see what make it was, didn't stink either

Yes, you can buy stove polish, we cleaned one up we got given with a wire brush on a drill, then bought some polish. You can buy it from most shops that supply stoves they usually have that kind of thing along with the rope and glue for the doors etc or you can get in online easily.

This week I have mainly been annoyed by the eggy smelling water coming out of the tap in my caravan, suspect bacteria in the hosepipe, the rooks are now digging up my potatoes after I chopped off the haulms due to blight, so will have to cover them up again, my onions have been blasted by rain and w...

There is the positive side, it is full of minerals as it is so deep rooted. In Sweden it is dried and fed to horses as hay, in olden times it was eaten like asparagus when the young shoots came up, it does look as bit like asparagus as it starts coming up. I make nettle,comfrey and weed liquid using...

We have a form of potato juice here called poitin, I think it could be more fun than this stuff

Just wondered if you had a compost loo, do you have a septic tank as well, what do you do with bath and washing machine water , oh perhaps you have a compost toilet outside for using when you are in the garden. We have people here to pump out tanks and then blow the resultant sludge onto their land,...

Just wondering if anyone has alpacas on this forum, it would be nice to hook up with other owners and talk alpaca stuff. I have two called Teddy and Tony, they do have their own Facebook page Teddy Tony Alpaca where they tell all their friends what they get up to. They have been with us for over 2 y...

Yup, got flatworms here too, I was gutted when I found them, but more philosophical now, I don't think it is the end of the world like I first did. At first there were none, but now I have found hundreds of them. I think they like the fact I have enriched the soil with compost and increased worm pop...

We have the same here, loads of rushes, they were huge. Not sure how your land is, loads of rocks, stones etc. We set to and made raised beds and 3 years on the beds are doing great. We bought a lawn tractor and have just kept the rushes down by mowing, the rushes don't like the competition and now ...

Hey Boboff, what do you do with the grey water. Not even sure what legislation there is for compost toilets, we know someone that had to put in a tank even though they were using compost toilets. We got a company called Klargester to visit us from Northern Ireland, their system is approved in the ee...

Weren't people who took the shit away called gong scourers. We have some shit problems in Ireland, because of EEC regs, every tank in Ireland supposedly has to be registered and checked and if they don't comply you have to put in a new one with scrubbers and all kinds of stuff like electric pumps wi...

Haven't had blight on my spuds yet, am in North West Ireland. I have grown Arran Victory, Lady Balfour, Nicola, Sante, Cosmos and they are looking good, the second earlies are nearly ready to harvest and hopefully the maincrops are only a few weeks behind, I usually try to harvest all by the middle ...

This is most distressing for you, months of hard work down the drain, so sorry. Have to say have mostly grown toms in greenhouses and more recently in tunnels, outside is usually a disaster. My outdoor potatoes do not have blight at the moment (touch wood) I noticed two of my neighbours had succumbe...