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Planted multiplying onions in March. Good spring onion taste and they just keep multiplying (good job really or they'd be called something else), hopefully won't have to buy spring onion seed again.

I've made crab apple vodka and orange vodka along with sloe and damson gins but have found that starting with a decent quality spirit in the first place plays a part. I've had one batch being noticeably worse or harsher than another using the same recipe but using cheap "happy shopper " s...

Well done you!

Have some foraged black cherries in the freezer at the moment. Would you be willing to share your prize winning recipe? Please

Makes me feel hungry

Signed, thanks for the link Niknik. If anyone is wondering about the size of the Avaaz community there's a worldwide member location map here http://avaaz.org/en/community/?reportback

I like that idea. Thank you.

diggernotdreamer wrote:

doofaloofa wrote:Whats brown and sticky?

A stick?

What's yellow and smells like bananas?





...Monkey sick

I'd go with planting a metre apart too but expect them to ramble anywhere from 3 to 6 metres.

Hi Orfy and welcome to ish

A survey like this can only represent those who take part. In this case 60% of participants grow their own. Certainly we're not seeing a huge grow your own boom round here, our allotment site waiting list has dropped from 38 down to about five.

Wow, very lucky you. If you do get some hare, top tip, gut them outside in the open. Also be tempted to try the heart and liver sliced and gently fried, maybe with a chopped rasher or two of smoked bacon.

Welcome back Pumpy, good to see you again.

Butternuts can take a while to get going but once they do they're like triffids. They're very hungry plants so when planting, if possible dig a hole about a cubic foot and fill it with stable muck or good home made compost. Skim the top back over with soil to retain moisture but leave the whole thin...

Preparing food and cooking has always been a high point and social part of the day in our house. Even now when the kids visit they're straight in the kitchen with us to get the meal ready.

Could try a sprinkling of powdered cinnamon near thresholds etc. Ants don't like to cross it.