Has anyone any brilliant equipment for digging furrows and lifting potatoes? I intend to grow enough potatoes to supply a small village veg round with about 40 to 50 Kg per week, so need some mechanical help, but obviously do not need something so big that I would need a tractor to pull it. I have a...

Try

www.edwintucker.com

they sell various sprouting seeds in 1Kg quantities for around £7. This works out a lot cheaper than the small 30g packs available from T & M etc.

If you are starting from scratch have you considered the cost of all your equipment verses buying in chicks that are 'hardened off'. You would have to start incubating atleast 9 eggs (£1 at our local market) to hopefully get 3 hens, what would you do with the surplus males...can you sex the chicks? ...

Hi, Just followed the advice and looked up toxoplasmosis on the net...found that it is most commonly caught from undercooked meats, and cat faeces, goat's milk. The level of infection in France is twice that of the UK as they eat their meat less well done than we do. So although cat faeces do contai...