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Put it by your front gate, fix a metal lid with a slot for coins and hang a laminated photo of something heartwarming such as a crying baby orangutang.Reap your harvest when the box is full and buy chocolate and wine.Passer bys will feel like they have contributed to a random act of...

Rosemary is a good idea. It flowers, used in cooking, grows quickly and growing cuttings is easy. Tough plant as it grows up mountains in Greece.

I'm not at all convinced that pointing out the use of child labour in the DRC would enrage EV drivers? Are we particularly sensitive to uncomfortable information?For myself, I'm left despairing, saddened, and curious about what action to take...

Crush a clove of garlic in a mug, good squirt of lemon juice, teaspoonful of honey, boiling water. Stir and drink while soon as it's cool enough.

I grew 3 wisterias from seeds from a seed pod from my wisteria years ago. They grew into plants but mine died.The one I gave my daughter grew well and flowered some years later then she moved house and left it behind.The one I gave a friend grew well too then she also moved house but she...

I took 2 of the sweet peppers indoors with all of the yellow bacinhos. those will be in their third year now and theyre getting nice and productive.i will try growing 2 Baccatums again: havana gold and red aji delight. Im told they get bigger than normal chillis. not spicy. scotch bonnets are...

Cut three or four appropriately sized sections off a bamboo cane and wedge them horizontally between the inner and outer pot. Should aid stability and allow humidity to rise.

Well, they never turned up. I hope that they discovered a better purpose to their existence than bringing joy to my Christmas feasting. The stilton tasted better with port anyway - so there. PS. To rub pickling vinegar into the wound, there was a recipe involving pw on the television today. I...

I have not had any blooms yet on mine planted in April '23 but still looks healthy ....