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 Topic: Tamworths needing a new home |
gz
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 Forum: Livestock and Pets Posted: Sat Sep 22, 18 9:52 pm Subject: Tamworths needing a new home |
One of our grass mowing customers has three Tamworths, Grandma 10 yrs old, her daughter 8yrs old and Grand daughter 7 years old (I think I have the last two ages right)
As her husband died 3 months ... |
| Topic: Hello there! |
gz
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Forum: Welcome Posted: Sat Sep 22, 18 9:43 pm Subject: Hello there! |
Hi and welcome from Scotland  |
| Topic: Pasteurizing Apple juice |
gz
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Forum: Recipes, Preserving, Homebrewing Posted: Wed Sep 19, 18 10:35 am Subject: Pasteurizing Apple juice |
| so basically the same...how does a pasteurizer work differently to the saucepan and thermometer method?... |
| Topic: Pasteurizing Apple juice |
gz
Replies: 3
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Forum: Recipes, Preserving, Homebrewing Posted: Tue Sep 18, 18 10:47 am Subject: Pasteurizing Apple juice |
Would you do this as for cordial ?
( in bottles ,20mins at 190F after raising temperature from cold, in a large pan up to the bottles' shoulders)
I like the ideas of 1.not using plastic bottles (a ... |
| Topic: Garlic |
gz
Replies: 201
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Forum: Grow Your Own Posted: Tue Sep 04, 18 8:50 am Subject: Garlic |
| A better plan MR, as they get lifted at different times |
| Topic: Best Plum Variety |
gz
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Forum: Grow Your Own Posted: Wed Aug 29, 18 5:23 pm Subject: Best Plum Variety |
| We had a Czar plum when we lived in Nantlle..small dark and luscious! |
| Topic: ... the sky is baby blue, and the just-unfurling leaves ... |
gz
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Forum: Grow Your Own Posted: Sat Aug 18, 18 9:08 am Subject: ... the sky is baby blue, and the just-unfurling leaves ... |
A query from the Pirate, MR, what wood would be used in a hop drying kiln?
Thinking of what would be leftovers from coppicing? |
| Topic: whats this one,Buzzy? |
gz
Replies: 29
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Forum: Conservation and Environment Posted: Thu Aug 16, 18 9:13 am Subject: whats this one,Buzzy? |
| Thankyou! |
| Topic: whats this one,Buzzy? |
gz
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Forum: Conservation and Environment Posted: Wed Aug 15, 18 9:27 pm Subject: whats this one,Buzzy? |
http://www.downsizer.net/gallery/29586/P8152916.JPG
Back up in the Galloway Hills, clearing grass and buttercups from around an azalea planted in a tyre,underneath a goat willow tree,found this lov ... |
| Topic: seed ID |
gz
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Forum: Foraging Posted: Tue Aug 14, 18 10:17 am Subject: seed ID |
This looks to be a good reference link
http://theseedsite.co.uk/db3.html
I'm not sure if this is the right place for this, can the mods move if necessary please  |
| Topic: Wildlife |
gz
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Forum: Conservation and Environment Posted: Sat Aug 11, 18 9:45 am Subject: Wildlife |
Where we were mowing yesterday has plenty of Buddleia bushes..but not one Peacock butterfly this year. Just plenty of Black Veined Whites.
They did have plenty of small birds, chaffinches, siskins ... |
| Topic: Wildlife |
gz
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Forum: Conservation and Environment Posted: Wed Aug 08, 18 9:39 pm Subject: Wildlife |
| Went out on a bike ride a few days ago,it seemed the day for raptors..first a sparrowhawk being mobbed by a couple of dozen swallows,then a buzzard and a red kite seeming to have a territorial dispute |
| Topic: ... the sky is baby blue, and the just-unfurling leaves ... |
gz
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Forum: Grow Your Own Posted: Tue Aug 07, 18 9:23 pm Subject: ... the sky is baby blue, and the just-unfurling leaves ... |
The advice I've been given re making yoghurt, is use starter yoghurt of the same fat content as the milk you use..and this proved correct the one time I used different milk  |
| Topic: Elderflower cordial fail! |
gz
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Forum: Recipes, Preserving, Homebrewing Posted: Tue Aug 07, 18 9:20 pm Subject: Elderflower cordial fail! |
thanks dpack!
I made elderflower and rose..it needed steeping to get the most out of the rose petals..next time I'll use darker petals and steep longer to get colour and fragrance from the rose pet ... |
| Topic: fruit leather hint. |
gz
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Forum: Recipes, Preserving, Homebrewing Posted: Mon Aug 06, 18 11:44 am Subject: fruit leather hint. |
You can buy non stick PTFE sheets at Morissons. I cut them into circle with the centre missing to fit my round dehydrator. They seem to work and now stop airflow. Might be an option.
Thanks..I'll l ... |
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