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 Topic: ... the sky is baby blue, and the just-unfurling leaves ... |
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 Forum: Grow Your Own Posted: Mon Jun 24, 19 8:02 am Subject: ... the sky is baby blue, and the just-unfurling leaves ... |
| In the 1960s the local cycling clubs used to go to Mottisfont Post Office for tea on the Sunday clubruns. They opened especially for this, the menu was always the same...boiled eggs ,buttered bread a ... |
| Topic: ... the sky is baby blue, and the just-unfurling leaves ... |
gz
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Forum: Grow Your Own Posted: Wed Jun 19, 19 9:07 pm Subject: ... the sky is baby blue, and the just-unfurling leaves ... |
When I lived in North Wales, we put 5 indirect solar water heating panels on a lean-to kitchen roof.
In the summer the water was 50 C in the tank...but the main gain was the pre-heating in the Winter ... |
| Topic: Elderflower Cordial...addition |
gz
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Forum: Recipes, Preserving, Homebrewing Posted: Tue Jun 18, 19 1:24 pm Subject: Elderflower Cordial...addition |
| For flower collecting you need two good dry days before collecting....in theory |
| Topic: Elderflower Cordial...addition |
gz
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Forum: Recipes, Preserving, Homebrewing Posted: Sun Jun 16, 19 6:34 am Subject: Elderflower Cordial...addition |
I've just made a batch,following the recipe in the database (the one using 20 flower heads) but instead of two lemons, used four limes.
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| Topic: Exciting news |
gz
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Forum: Grow Your Own Posted: Sat Jun 15, 19 5:57 pm Subject: Exciting news |
| now...carefully |
| Topic: Wot's one got growing? |
gz
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Forum: Grow Your Own Posted: Fri Jun 07, 19 8:18 am Subject: Wot's one got growing? |
From last Autumn planting we have red onions, leeks, garlic and a few broad beans..only three out of 25 survived the winter...
The strawberries have been strawed and are about to be netted...the blac ... |
| Topic: Exciting news |
gz
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Forum: Grow Your Own Posted: Thu May 23, 19 8:38 pm Subject: Exciting news |
I chit parsnip seed on damp toilet paper,then sow in loo roll middles.
They seem to germinate quicker this way,and at least when you put them out you don't have gaps in the row |
| Topic: Wildlife |
gz
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Forum: Conservation and Environment Posted: Sat Apr 20, 19 9:30 am Subject: Wildlife |
Thankyou 
We seem to get a loner every year  Possibly due to people removing nests and keeping sheds closed. The house-wrapping disrupted many last year,but at least those that didn't ge ... |
| Topic: Wildlife |
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Forum: Conservation and Environment Posted: Fri Apr 19, 19 8:32 pm Subject: Wildlife |
| no hope of seeing the red patch! Will see if we can see him from a different angle |
| Topic: Wildlife |
gz
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Forum: Conservation and Environment Posted: Fri Apr 19, 19 6:53 pm Subject: Wildlife |
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He has been here for about three days. A group have been at the farmyard where our neighbour works, for a good week now.
Swallow or ... |
| Topic: Open Office or Libre Office? |
gz
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Forum: IT Matters Posted: Mon Apr 15, 19 8:30 am Subject: Open Office or Libre Office? |
| I have no problems with Libre Office |
| Topic: Wildlife |
gz
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Forum: Conservation and Environment Posted: Tue Apr 09, 19 7:58 am Subject: Wildlife |
Interesting going for a bike ride round the lanes and seeing whats there...and what we've missed.
Coltsfoot flowers gone over, celandine blooms just arriving, wild garlic well out.
All the daffodils ... |
| Topic: How many of you are salivating over seed catalogues? |
gz
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Forum: Grow Your Own Posted: Thu Feb 28, 19 11:49 pm Subject: How many of you are salivating over seed catalogues? |
| Costuluto Fiorento is a good one, good and solid and tasty. When I grew it it was one of the first to succumb to blight...but it was a bad year and they had been sown late... |
| Topic: How many of you are salivating over seed catalogues? |
gz
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Forum: Grow Your Own Posted: Wed Feb 27, 19 11:56 pm Subject: How many of you are salivating over seed catalogues? |
Just browsing seed packets here in NZ..it's surprising how many UK companies sell here..I saw Browns in the local Chinese dollar store!
Who would sell Lebanese cucumber seeds in the UK? We've been ... |
| Topic: ... the sky is baby blue, and the just-unfurling leaves ... |
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Forum: Grow Your Own Posted: Thu Feb 07, 19 8:48 am Subject: ... the sky is baby blue, and the just-unfurling leaves ... |
The fires by the road and rail past Christchurch they had under control..I'm not sure about those on the far side of Nelson, past Richmond..Pigeon Valley and Rabbit Island.
The Tasman area is incredi ... |
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