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Thanks all for comments and friendly hello's! :flower: A pig! Ah, sounds like the excuse DH has been waiting for! Think I'll offer the patch to a neighbour for his cow first, then another neighbour for his sheep, and see what happens. I'm not particularly bothered about the acutal existence of moleh...

A tentative little step back in to the forum... :pale: Hope all the regulars are well, and hello to anyone new. As the title suggests, I'm looking for ideas for dealing with old grass. A fairly large section of our field was left uncut (and uneaten!) at the end of last summer, then died back and got...

Thank you all for you very kind messages. It means a lot. Really.

I am feeling brave today. I have always been taught to be nice to others in order to be treated well yourself. I have also been taught to always give people the benefit of the doubt so here goes… I want to add to my earlier posts and also give Fenwoman the benefit of the doubt. I tried to keep my ...

okaaaaaaaay I consider myself well and truly told off. I can see that you have not understood everything I said. Perhaps I did not explain myself clearly enough (that's the problem with virtual conversations), but in any case I don't think I will take the time today to go through this with you. I ha...

many thanks for the replies, fenwoman and red. I'm becoming more convinced that it is that cat now as I chased it off again this morning, just as it was jumping up over the fence. I know it is unusual for a cat to go for a chicken but this isn't a domestic cat. It's feral/stray. It has always lived ...

The chickens are free range when we are at home (weekends and most days from 12) but are kept in a large fenced enclosure while we are out in the mornings. The season is changing now and the trees that form a protective canopy over their enclosure are losing their leaves, leaving them more exposed. ...

Hi Thought I'd make a big big batch of baked beans with a big part of our beans from the garden. I don't have a freezer big enough to freeze baked beans. But I do have a lot of glass jars still, despite all the chutney and jam we've been making! Does anyone know of a recipe I can use to preserve bak...

don't think I'd get away with posting to you from here - the woman at the post office is VERY strict and VERY scary!
But am bumping this thread for you to see if anyone else will help you from a contry with a kinder postal system!

different country to you but have found chickpeas to be very easy to grow, so would recommend trying if you think you can offer them the right conditions.

fennel inhibits other plants apparently so that'll make your decision easier, peggy sue! if you DO plant it it'll have to be away from other plants. Will dig out my plans tonight and post again.

peggy sue - I can completely identify with you. I too went through a couple of months of that "companion planting-VS-crop rotation" headache earlier in the year! :? It's like doing a very complicated mathematical problem :cry: but I have to say that I eventually got there and in my humble ...

prospects look good then! And I'm sure I'll hear no complaints from DH and DS about peeing along the hedgeline... passing shepherds may not be too impressed though!

interesting thread would elderberry come under this category? I'm hoping to throw down a load of elderberries along our border to create both a quickish-growing hedgeline and an enormous source of free food. Since that is how they grow in the wild, I'm assuming that is all I need to do - am I corrre...

lol martin tempting!