gosh - we are looking at investing in nearly 80 x 'proper' notice boards for sites. Hadn't got as far as looking at the price but its on the 'action plan' Mind you, not quite as dear as I had imagined...

ohh err - sounds like I need to give this some serious thought before I junp in Thanks you all soo much for the guidance. I adore horseradish sauce JB - you system is most informative. I will follow to the letter!

I actually WANT to grow horse radish, take it from this I need to grow in a container?

I 'recycled' a large length of underfloor heating pipe I found in a skip. Its absolutley fantastic as is strong, bends easily but holds what ever shape you give it and ordinary clothes pegs fit as clips to hold the mesh on. I have them about 4 feet high at the highest point. The ends are pushed onto...

Have you tried ebay? I actually bought a 2m x 100m roll a couple of years ago from ebay for 80 odd quid shared the cost with a couple of pals and its still in excellent condition.

Thanks for the tip re growing in a pot. I have to admit they are a bit 'sharp' raw but cranberry and orange american style muffins are one of my favourite winter breakfasts - have also made a fabby orange and cranberry sauce for lamb with it, made a change from the mint. Cranberries are v.expensive ...

....the first of the seed catalogues arrive in the post. I usually save the joy of looking through them for long winter nights infront of the fire but seeing as today feels like winter anyway I've had a scan. I fancy the idea of trying cranberries - similar to Hilary's post about goji berries I wond...

Despite a bad year for many things, my mini sweet corn have done exceptionally well! I have several kilos of baby sweet corn and with the price at around £7 a kilo in the super market I'm keen to preserve them. I intend to freeze - should I blanch them in boiling water first and if so, for how long?

A friend of mines' site had every onion on every plot (around 80 plots) stolen a few summers ago. The general consensus was that a buger/hot dog van owner was to blame but was never traced. The site is surrounded by student accomodation too so there have been a few starving students caught with the ...

Thanks! That has been very useful. I found the site and the article about onion rot and also honey fungus - needed a dictionary to read it but very informative I see what you mean about 'technical' data. I am reasured the product is completley bio degradable and onion rot takes extreme measures. I p...

Thanks for that Barney, I did plant too close I have a few more plants than I needed and I couldnt bring myself to throw them away and stuck them in the gaps - silly me. I've never had it before and I have no other veg gardeners for miles. It was cheap seed, maybe you get what you pay for.

I have white onion rot I have been told by a neighbour you can use Armillatox on the soil and then plant something else...I havent come across Armillatox before, is it similar to Jayes and if so is it not illegal?

I picked my broad beans yesterday and was surprised to see quite a lot of 'chocolate coloured' marks on the leaves - I looked it up in my trusty Pocket Vegetable expert and low and behold there is such as thing as 'Chocolate spot' What causes this - the leaves got a bit lacerated around a month ago ...

We have a great grannie who lives in a village called Gress, so we all call her 'G-G' a dual purpose abbreviation for Great Grannie or Grannie Gress - the little ones could say "Gee Gee" before they learnt Mummy or Daddy!! You could be 'Grannie Grock' with the same abbreviation If you say ...

Hi all, thanks for the links, got what I need I think. OH - I thought electronic paper would put an end to all that rummaging amongst paper to find my files but no...computer just as messed up as my desk so the kids got me this nifty USB stick thingy in disguise