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Re the milk I think its best to try full fat - you could experiment with both and let us know? I think its the natural antibodies in it that kill the fungus and it can be used as a prophylactic (schoolboy snigger still and I'm 50 for goodness sake) but if your in N Devon like I am and have a year li...

The comment re the Ophiopogon was a joke - being black and your blackfly comment and all...
Re the milk and water for mildew - used to do that an my courgettes/marrows for mildew
1pt milk to 9 parts water though and spray every couple of weeks. Any more milk and youre growing quiche!

Just checked my Ophiopogon planiscapus 'Nigrescens' - covered in the stuff....

Its not that easy - I've nearly 100 tomato plants and that would be a real forth bridge project for them alone. Alas I havent seen a ladybird this year - I live in a farming area so no wildlife other than foxes bred to hunt - and badgers to eat my sweetcorn! In a world where we can put 10,000,000,00...

I've tried that and several other things but they all seem to be 'contact' required. So if you dont actually hit the little things then the next day they've pooped a whole new army out their bottoms!

Thats not as silly as it sounds - have you noticed that once you find a use for a weed (dandelions for salads and coffee, nettles for beer...) it spontaneously starts dying off.
If you could find a use for greenfly the same would happen there too.....

I'm having a bad time with greenfly at the moment and it occurred to me that if would be easier to kill the little buggers if I could see them more clearly. I'm being organic and nothing seems to work at the moment! Does anyone know of a dye I could spray on that would highlight them? It would be ni...

Its not a 'vertical axis design' ! It has vertical axes* but most of the power comes from the sails in between them. And sail boats have worked for a long time now so I think thats a given. *or whatever angle you want to put them at - if you used them down the side of a tall building they'd stick ou...

Its my design - I havent built a full one - just a couple of test bits and peices. I'm in the process of skip raiding for the parts but as a smallholder suffering from 2 lousy wet years I wont have a lot of time to play with it this year. If I play with it and report back it may be years before work...

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While making sausages using our mincer I get problems with air bubbles when pushing the meat down the shute. I tried to make a container from a large plastic cider bottle with the bottom cut off and the top cut back. This is filled with the mix and then a circular plunger - a round piece of wood or ...

There was a design given in Smallholder magazine three years ago.
It used lengths of blue water pipe attached to lengths of wood for the frame. And the lengths of wood were then fixed to the ground. This would make it a lot easier to move .

I grew 12 plants this year in N Devon. I have had no fruit as its been so dark and wet. I want to try and overwinter them: I have three in the ground in the pollytunnel -all about 6' high and 9 in a small greenhouse in growbags. I'm thinking of taking the ones in the greenhouse down to ~1foot or so ...

Thanks for the advice! I dont know if my seeds have been eaten by seals ( a bit wet here at times) or bad storage but my germinations rates here have been very low -even fro new seed! I'm getting a fridge from freecycle and will store my seeds in that. I have spoken to a few people locally who say g...