OoH! no, thats another one for my list!! Catalogues and bills are all I seem to be getting so hopefully I can outweigh the bills!
and happy new year to you all! have been lurking lately but not posting as I dont tend to venture in the garden (read mud pile!) in the winter...
have been at work for the last 3 days and its deathly quiet! phone rang twice today and 1 of those was a wrong number!! didnt want to use up my...
Thanks. I have found out about the spines!! anyone got any tweezers???
There are a few trees in the park and i picked a couple just to have a look. I (finally!) opened them and the nuts inside are an ok size i think...
For once I am thinking ahead. I have a few pots on the deck and although they are hardy I would like to give them a bit of help in case it gets...
silly question maybe! I groe lavender cos i love the smell. The plants have flowered (obviously!) and are still on the plant. can I pick them or...
didnt know all that! thanks
I have a couple of tansy plants which flowered earlier. The flower heads are now dried up on the plant and I noticed that when I acidentally...
Hi, does anyone do anything special with their decking over winter? A man who gave me lots of advice with the building of it said to keep it...
hmmm.maybe I was a bit premature then! i will put them into a half bottle of gin and see what happens!
finally found some sloe (blackthorn) bushes and picked some fruit today. the fruit had a bloom on it but when i got them home i realised that...
Hmm. maybe a bullace. certainly looks like one from a photo. will look into this. thanks. i am now determined to find out what it is
the berries are about1 cm diameter. bit into one and havent died yet!didnt taste very nice- very bitter. I dont know what it is. there were no...
knowing me it will be poisonous!!! photo should have been there by now. will add it again here[img]
been keeping my eye on this as i thought it was a sloe. picked some today and they are almost ripe. they look like sloes but the bush did not have...
making cider vinegarhave never made it but now i have a recipe i shall.ingredients waste apples and cores water to coverscrub the apples....
can anyone tell me why some plums have shrivelled away to almost nothing while on the tree but others on the same tree are big and plump? is it...
It was quite pleasant here yesterday so i had a bit of a tidy up and moved some plants which seemed to be a bit crowded. I also decided to pot up...
Brilliant! thanks for that. am going to make some cider vinegar with all the tiny apples from the tree
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