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I've moved the last of it out the back garden now. Its kind of dry grainy stuff. what I would assume chipped wood would look like after composting, very similar in appearance to bark fines I bought a couple of years ago. Its still warm in the bottom of the bag, so the decomposition id probably...

My OH had her name changed and she is furious. She asked politely under the name of Tidemark for her account here to be closed, for all the threads she had started to be removed and for all her contributions to other people’s threads to be removed. Instead, her name was changed to...

I'll never understand why everyone wants to buy online, ok if you have no means of transport, but just get out there and look round like real people did before covid if you can.

That’s one of the many benefits of gardening @CostasK, learning from your mistakes, we all do it. There used to be a thread called something like gallery of shame on the old GW forum, not just amusing but helpful. I could certainly contribute to that .

Mrs Shiney loves kohlrabi raw in her salad. I buy two large ones for her every week and they are quite cheap in the local Indian wholesaler. I do the shopping as Mrs S hates food shopping and I enjoy it. She also uses it when she makes a form of coleslaw.

I know I just noticed after I posted, still learning - just joined today.

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Maybe try blanching them to get rid of the bitterness?

I saw that on the News on TV. They look so realistic. I suppose a lot of us here do gardening for the same reason.

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