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Hi i bought a paper log maker, i have made a good few so far, you get the old news papers put them in a bucket or bin with water and turn it every day till it turns to masha and put it in the log maker and press it down and out comes the log and then you leave it to dry out, it seems like a good way...

Hi boots, did you try putting the pig box in there run or gate and put bucket of pig nuts or lettuce up in box and put staw up the ramp floor, thats now i got my 2 pigs in that are in freezer now. good luck they will do anything for food and they can be pig headed too. cheers jessie.

:flower: Hi i had my first tomatoes yesterday, 3 big beef tomatoes and 2 money maker tomatoes, also have lots and lots of cucumbers, and cougettes, marrows, also coming on is peppers, chilli's, egg plants, and belive it or not my sugar baby melons are getting very big, i have being very busy with wo...

Hi Can also be used for trying across cabbage and lettuce with cd's handing out of twine to keep woody and birds out.

Hi Cat found with bird flu in germay in an infected area where birds were found with the flu. so they say in infected areas cats just be kept in.
Poor cats

jessie

Hi fizzy and big welcome from jessie in ireland and love to hear more about your container seeds.

jessie

Hi this may not sound nice but i use the bale twine for tying up the after birth on the mare after foaling it helps it come out as the weight of it tied up makes it heavier and it just comes out quicker. i know it all sounds awful. but thats what i do for a living for the first 4 to 5 months of the ...

Well Gill i got the seeds for aus thanks ( thats the winning sun flower seeds) i hope you get the ones i sent you today.they are sealed seeds.

jessie

Hi i am going to have a go at sowing water melon 'sugar baby' this year never grew them before but i shall sow them next month out in the ploy tunnel, i have grew cucumber, marrow, and aubergine every year and got great crops must have had every marrow type of dinner ever there was so many of them o...

:mrgreen: Hi over the weekend OH and myself put up a bigger hen shed and run with a roof on it and small hole chicken wire around the sides , must say that they did need a bigger shed anyway and i put 2 new little 8 week old chicks out with the other hens i was keeping them in my spare bedroom till ...

Hi my lettuce and cabbage seeds are up in there seed trays out in the tunnel, has any body got seeds shooting up and what ?
I have more seeds sowing but they are about a week later.
jessie

Thanks for that good life 1970, i feel a bit better now, i think i was reading to much into it.but i will be prepared for it if it come.
jessie

Well i got information on the plum damson merryweather, its a great cropper with large blue/black fruit with yellow flesh, delicious rich tangy flavour, excellent for jams and pies, sounds good yes, just what i want.
jessie

:flower: Hello Hedgewizard, and a big welcome from ireland, you sound a bit like me with poly tunnel and hens and raised beds it,s a great site i even got water butts in last week to save on the well water, i am only new to this site myself , i even got OH to put lights out in the poly tunnel thats ...

Hi and welcome, i am quite new to the site myself and find it a wonderful site for information on all kinds if things to do with hens , veg, fruit, and so much more.

jessie