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 Topic: Chinese geese? |
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 Forum: Poultry Posted: Wed Apr 13, 16 3:38 pm Subject: Chinese geese? |
Don't they burrow? They won't need a house, you can keep them underneath something else.
See, it's all about closing the permaculture loop 
They have decided they want to live with the khaki ... |
| Topic: Chinese geese? |
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Forum: Poultry Posted: Mon Apr 11, 16 2:39 pm Subject: Chinese geese? |
We inherited 6 of them from the in-laws when we moved here.
We re-homed 4 of them as the scenario of two bare-footed toddlers and all that goose poo was not attractive.
The 2 we kept were brothers a ... |
| Topic: rhubarb and sultana baklava |
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Forum: Recipes, Preserving, Homebrewing Posted: Thu Apr 07, 16 12:00 pm Subject: rhubarb and sultana baklava |
Oh, that sounds so good!
I may have to make it. |
| Topic: Chives - what to do with them? |
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Forum: Grow Your Own Posted: Sat Apr 02, 16 2:53 pm Subject: Chives - what to do with them? |
Chopped into potato salad, they look nice as well as adding flavour.
In egg mayonnaise, chopped into salads, in cream sauce for fish, in macaroni cheese, finely chopped and mashed with garlic into bu ... |
| Topic: The Hungry Gap - what's seeing you through? |
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Forum: Grow Your Own Posted: Sat Apr 02, 16 2:48 pm Subject: The Hungry Gap - what's seeing you through? |
| Still got Jerusalem artichokes, the tops have completely disappeared but I know where they are!! |
| Topic: So, what have you all planted? |
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Forum: Grow Your Own Posted: Sat Apr 02, 16 2:47 pm Subject: So, what have you all planted? |
| Just put 10 spuds in and some chard, but it's old seed so it may not come to anything. |
| Topic: So, what have you all planted? |
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Forum: Grow Your Own Posted: Thu Mar 31, 16 8:25 pm Subject: So, what have you all planted? |
Garlic is well up.
Tomatoes are in their tubs in the greenhouse and I have leeks, peas and courgettes coming on in the greenhouse also.
Charlotte spuds are chitting in the backroom.
That's all so f ... |
| Topic: Six Nations 2016 |
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Replies: 19
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Forum: Reviews and What's On Posted: Tue Mar 15, 16 2:02 pm Subject: Six Nations 2016 |
Not this season I wouldn't.
Bet they manage to stuff it up in Paris.
You also reckoned England would come third..........  |
| Topic: started my Seeds |
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Forum: Grow Your Own Posted: Mon Feb 29, 16 10:36 am Subject: started my Seeds |
Interesting!
I've just looked up fat baby whatsit as I'd never heard of it.
I'm tempted, but had told myself at the end of last season not to grow cumbers this year, I have a small greenhouse and th ... |
| Topic: started my Seeds |
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Forum: Grow Your Own Posted: Mon Feb 29, 16 10:36 am Subject: started my Seeds |
Interesting!
I've just looked up fat baby whatsit as I'd never heard of it.
I'm tempted, but had told myself at the end of last season not to grow cumbers this year, I have a small greenhouse and th ... |
| Topic: mending domestic appliances part n |
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Forum: Make Your Own/DIY Posted: Wed Feb 24, 16 9:46 pm Subject: mending domestic appliances part n |
I LOVE espares!
It was recommended to me by a cooker repair bloke who was fixing my chum's cooker under warranty.
The fan on my cooker had broken and with the help of espares I managed to order th ... |
| Topic: 3rd try soup |
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Forum: Recipes, Preserving, Homebrewing Posted: Sun Feb 21, 16 6:31 pm Subject: 3rd try soup |
| I find sweet potato soup benefits greatly from a generous dollop of curry paste at the beginning and a couple of handfuls of spinach leaves at the very end. |
| Topic: Road drainage into field |
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Forum: Land Management Posted: Tue Feb 16, 16 5:43 pm Subject: Road drainage into field |
| Get in touch with your local water authority and see what they have to say. |
| Topic: A fox trap |
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Replies: 39
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Forum: Shooting and Trapping for the Pot Posted: Mon Feb 08, 16 12:25 pm Subject: A fox trap |
It's responsible that you're going to shoot it, for a while there I was concerned that you might be one of the idiots that trap them, then 'set them free' near other folk's birds............  |
| Topic: A fox trap |
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Forum: Shooting and Trapping for the Pot Posted: Sat Feb 06, 16 7:53 pm Subject: A fox trap |
| What do you intend to do with it when you've trapped it?? |
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