oldherbaceous wrote: ↑Sun Nov 12, 2023 5:39 pm We always interfere….even when some are trying to help…I can see Beavers becoming the next big problem, then culling will have to take place!

It already is

Deer have been allowed to get to large numbers or in the case of Red Deer, encouraged to get to unsustainable levels to make it easier to take folk out and shoot them. In Scotland there are now some large culls of deer, the shops are full of venison at quite cheap prices too. Since man removed their...

The camera moving on the tripod is one thing I have to fix when using a long lens at distant, but the images are ok, just a bit wobbly.

oldherbaceous wrote: ↑Thu Nov 09, 2023 1:40 pm Are you still doing your photography, Burnie?
Nice bright day here but, the ground is sodden….

I've been out a bit, but quiet after the last storm, still struggling with a kidney infection, but not letting it stop me.

After the rut by tigerburnie, on Flickr

Had a trip to the local Glen looking for wildlife.

Frosty here this morning, got the fire lit, it should be dry, so hope to go for a walk later.

I would go raised beds, no digging and easier to maintain, best thing I have done on my garden

I'm with OH, don't dig, just pile stuff on top, compost, manure, anything to improve the soil and raise the surface. My raised beds have a flat top to them, but an old uncle in Norfolk had more triangular beds with the flat bit on top maybe only two wide, but they were two feet above the rest of his...

They've been seen in Lincolnshire, just your luck at the moment, they are moving about

Just plunged all the pots in the greenhouse borders to protect the roots and put some fleece on them, 2 degrees in there last night and it's forecast to get colder.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-Xir5hEVrfM I did this video last year, not sure if you can still get the compost from the council tips as I believe a lot of them now sell the stuff to companies making peat free compost. One word though, my sleepers at the bottom are starting to rot a bit, you might...

Ahh not really on my patch in Angus, so I can't point you in the right direction. Try finding a local bird club, ours sends you a text when something out of the ordinary turns up, so you can have half a chance of finding it.

Nope I think you could just be the only one lol( luckily the old grease bands were sticky on both sides, so I couldn't make that mistake)

Never grown any, but according to this, they turn sour when purple.....................................
https://www.allotmentbook.co.uk/contents/tomatillos/

Acorns have to be rinsed to remove some of the tannins, but you can make flour from them, I carry a book called "food for free" written by Richard Mabey, it's a small Collins book that fits in your pocket and is a great guide. I have tapped our Birch tree and tried the sap, full of vitamin...