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Given that some mushrooms are toxic enough that less than half a one can kill a fit and healthy person, my decision making process when deciding whether to eat it or not goes something like this:If I'm not 100% certain I know exactly what it is, bearing in mind some very deadly ones have...

It will be a hard crop to combine if the 2 crops are planted together and then there will be a lot of cleaning and separting later, ok separting the wheat from the beans will be easy because of the size of wheat to beans unless they are going to use both in the bread, may taste different Both...

Can I divide a clump of Aurea bamboo now? I've just received a large bare root clump that was despatched on Thursday & arrived today- roots still damp in plastic bag. I am going to plant it in a plastic cold water tank/cistern that came out of the loft. Have drilled drainage holes in the bottom...

I sow them in autumn for spring pot plants though they need a lot of support. I started using them as cut flowers but saw a picture of them in the US in hanging baskets where they looked lovely so I might try doing that.

Yes i had read this, but also that just over winter they can go like this and they recover but perhaps this one had a particularly bad winter, i'll maybe leave it a couple more weeks, I've left it opened up as you see in the picture which it may or may not appreciate.. I had wondered if it was...

Fish and chips smell great but not so much if you're not hungry.The smell of the hot oil they are cooked in is powerful, heavy and lingers and makes you feel greasy yourself - lived next door to one in my flat-sharing youf but they had a high exhaust flue so not a constant smell. Anyway,...

Hollyhock is in the mallow family and it does have that look about it.

It could be apple scab, but have a look at the examples on the RHS Site to confirm first. Apple scab and pear scab / RHS GardeningIf it is that, then you can use a copper-based fungicide to treat it. The general term for this fungicide is Bordeaux Mixture - recipes are on the web if you want...

Ah I don't know why people need lots of cars, the man with a motor bike I said about also has a car and a big blue van, and his wife has a motorbike. They also have a car that's never used and kept at the side of the house. Doesn't make sense to me.