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I have dug shredded paper into the ground to break up claggy soil... it looks ugly for a while then disappears. I use a cheap stationery box paper-shredder on all manner of scrap paper. Haven't tried it for chicken bedding yet, but as I am running out of wood-shavings, I think I'll give it a go. And...

What's a battery pulser? my charge controller does pulsing (PCM) when the battery voltage rises when you say "charge at 14.4V or 24v" - what do you mean? the voltage is set by the battery surely? if you connect a battery at 11.6V to a source at 12v, 14v or 24v, the battery voltage starts a...

How does the alcohol duty work on high %age spirits?

coffee filter?

looking at the lemon balm recipe... I'd have thought you'd be better off blitzing the leaves in a blender with vodka then letting them steep in a jar.... increased surface area to extract the essence?

I have a couple of these :

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/RAT-CAGE-TRAP ... 3f3e42260e

mouldy cheese bait works well

Mine is about 3 x 5 metres ... raspberries and loganberries mainly. I messed up with the strawberries by letting them get too overgrown with weeds. The blitz-weeding experiment at the start of the season didn't really work, as by then the strawbs were too thin and weak.

yep - shot another this morning, but again it took 3 pellets. Is that more humane than drowning? I don't know. Is rat poison humane? one snuffed it by just by being left alone in the trap for a day. I've been down the council pest control route before - all they do is leave bait boxes out and come b...

anyone grown these?

huge plants, handful of tiny fruits, but what do you do with them?

I take the point about excessive food in the coop. However this time of year the apples are falling off the trees and there is other (rotting) food about and the buggers are invading the rest of the garden too... rat-holes appearing all over the place... these "humane traps" are just brill...

I've been having a rat problem in the chicken coop - they keep raiding the chickens' feed, proliferating and raiding more. When I saw 6 in there one day, I decided to declare RatWars. As well as the baitbox outside the coop with ratpoison, I bought a .177 Webley Rebel pump-action airgun from the loc...

A year on.. no problems at all, still laying well. They never moulted properly last year (mild winter?) and not showing any signs this year (yet)

Lovely colour, but very slow to clear. Tastes nice enough, but not thrilling.

I ended up blending mine with apple - resulting in a dark-rose coloured light wine, but a bit tart. Will let it mellow a while I think

I'm afraid in the past I've always used "general purpose" homebrew shop yeast for cider....

so now I have bought un sachet of cider yeast (with sweetener as predicted) and have some on the go.... lete see what results