It's good that I make you smile, more likely the sort of grin I get out of Mo because my obsessions and odd ways amuse her. It was Mo who encouraged me into kitchen gardening at a time she couldn't get me to create an orderly flower garden and even though our flower garden is added to each year it h...

Smile. Yes, a neighbor saw me burning weeds in the drive but she came closer because of the roaring sound of the burner. The burner head is almost the size of a tin-can. I had to do something, the carrots I had sown in a bed were engulfed by weed seedling so much that I just could not see the carrot...

Thanks Robo, thanks for sharing. Did you only burn the weeds because you were scared or because you know something you have yet to share.

I have to admit that I was scared about burning the soil though I had read that this was a solution.

I bet you-all thought I've been dossing or on holiday. I just got so fed up of loosing crop to to annual/perrenial weeds I bought a burner because of stuff I read about using heat to control what grows naturally from the soil, but you don't want. The first bed I treated with the burner had killed al...

If I could catch fish to eat I had often thought about taking up fishing since I've been in Pembrokeshire.

I see blokes fishing but I never saw any fish caught, in the harbour there are often blokes fishing. Same again, the stories but I never saw any fish. They talk about Bass.

Mediterranean diet anyone ? Ha, I just returned from Greece. Very peaceful holiday poor to horrible tomatoes and the Greek salads were NAFF. Best in show was the fruity oils which were a pleasant change from mostly peppery oils. Look at the choice from the local store mostly, I imagine, which ended ...

Oh-yes, I understand now. I stopped doing it because so many fragile souls were offended. Bless them. MOVING-ON. The Moonlight beans are proving to be the best ever in my experience, I just sliced a foot long bean that I would usually throw on the compost heap. After slicing and the pre-freezing dum...

N470 ? It's an Intel atom ? I'm worried. A neighbour who was a civil engineer of some intel-ect has gone from working out the volume of my oval shaped oil tank to not knowing the difference between oil and petrol. I had to get his mower going twice now after he did things that stopped it working. Mo...

That's the name I was looking for Westi, Krisk. I have two, if you have two you're more likely to find one amongst all the stuff in the cutlery drawer. The Krisk bean slicer was well designed and on sale for countless years, no one has improved on it. The blades can't be sharpened so you have to buy...

Are you growing Runner Beans or Climbing French? I'm sure I told you I was going to sow French climbing beans, I'm growing a runner bean called Moonlight. Maybe I switched at the last minute because of something I read because I mostly avoid runner beans. Moonlight is a very nice tender bean and a ...

Thanks for the nudge on sharpeners Westi, even though I'm professional when it comes to sharpening knives I had often thought about buying one of the gadgets that have ceramic stones set at an angle. I bought one for a pal who had a fabulous Wusthauf chefs knife but the knife never got sharpened. Gl...

Back to the original post about grass clipping, I just tidied a stretch of border that is under and alongside some screening growth that I don't know the name of. The soil was always sticky or hard depending on hydration though after years of dumping grass cutting I appear to have very light soil th...

I agree that the pencil sharpener type is 'of limited use'. If you you have a large carrot or courgette it works to some extent but keeps getting blocked by the centre of the carrot that is not being spiralled. What I do, out of determination, I spiral both ends then use the peeler type and finally ...

Ok-ok, I know. Among us we have expert mole catchers that I would love to have let loose on our moles but I never caught a mole in fifteen years of trying and I am not pathetic when it comes to practical matters. When Clive started coming to deal with our moles he had already been working on the sur...

What a shame.

Poor Pa, have bloke huggy.