Sorry, Jaycee, that should have been addressed to you. Sorry, Nini! Senior moment, again.

Iain

Hi Nini, By far the best bait in my experience is peanuts- probably peanut butter would be excellent too, but I've never tried it. Story: my wife will not permit ANY rodent to enter our (farm!)house- even the sun has to take its shoes off- so you can imagine her horror when I suggested that the caus...

Their flimsiness has implications for packaging, mind.

I'm inclined to agree with Geoff re. a suspicion of RPM. Effective as no doubt they are, they're made of flimsy plastic and must cost next to nothing to produce. And the only place I've seen them at anything near a reasonable price is at the Potato Day run by the Garden Association in a neighbouring...

Damn thing logged me out! Sorry, I'm "Guest".
Iain.

By the way, while we're on the subject, I have it on good authority that over the years many men have found Delia attractive. Anybody prepared to come out on THIS?

Hi Guys, I have to confess that I haven't followed this thread since page one. I return to find all human life is there. (I use "human" loosely in order to include Anon.). But, on the strength of page one I bought the Delia parts 1,2,and 3. Glad I did: it's the very ticket! Also bought &qu...

Allan, I take your point about passing the equinox but for the hobbyist, the second stage- the growing on before final planting- is going to be under a heat-retaining cover, in my case a polytunnel within a polytunnel, so I guess the light lost would need to be artificially replaced as far as possib...

I think this is a potentially very helpful thread. If I've grasped the point correctly it attempts to address a problem that I've anticipated having with my new, unheated polytunnel. As I understand it, many cvs require artificial heat if they're to be started early enough to mature in our climate.H...

Fen, I was returning seven (!)veg. books (at armchair gardening I excel) to the library the other day and lo and behold they had got the Romans tattie buke in. Took it out. I too had the pamphlet, bought (£1.25) when I was buying some of his 50p seed.I can understand what you're saying about the pam...

I thought it was a complete waste of money- VERY thin in content, padded out with wide page margins and a big notes section. All-in-all, it added up to not much more than a pamphlet. I thought it a pretty cynical exercise in fact. By no means knowledgeable on the subject, I learned precisely nothing...

That, again, was me. SHEESH!
Iain.

Sorry, that was me- keep forgetting to log in.
Iain.

????Is that a nice way of saying, "Allan, you're being a prick again"?

As a totally novice cook, I'd be grateful if someone could point me in the direction of an excellent book on basic concepts, terms, skills, techniques. My ignorance of the subject is so profound that I don't even know what questions I should be asking, but you guys have awakened an interest...and th...