thanks sally! ime getting quite enthused about this project now!

thanks!

well i know yer all gonna take the mickey but ive had an idea! bear with me as i try to explain. our local councill is changing over to the ever popular half sized wheely bins,colected only fortnightly.now my initial idea is to burn all combustables as most round here allready do,we usually just bun...

i hope one of you with a good memory can help me. i read an article in KG i think it may have been last year and posibly by bob flowerdew about toms not being dependant on light to grow but heat.there was even a special name for the type of plant that was this way.can anyone help? maybe point me in ...

all things 'rivercottage' not a nut on the man ,more the lifestyle.we keep paultry for meat and eggs.hunt and fish for food.nearly self sufficiant realy!

try a little amonium nitrate watered round the roots too!

just finished dinner and it was realy nice!
as for the cauliflowers just use loads of fertiliser and when the curd is the size of a tennis ball peg the leaves together at the top to blanch the curd!

weather is great for growing veg! heres the product so far of 5 months on the allotment,theres tonns coming on and the carrots have done very well this year as have the spuds,which incidentally are the best i have grown! http://i102.photobucket.com/albums/m92/fishfish_01/IMAG0005-2.jpg the kids love...

thanks peeps !!!8 feet! wow nice looking plant too!

its my first time growing them,theyre currently over 5foot! how do i know when theyre ready to dig?

hope he got a good slap!

it all seems to work into the day well! i think the incentive is feeding the family and tasteing real food!cant beat home cured bacon and eggs for brecky! as for the beans i use any old glass or plastic container! salt in the bottom,just table salt then layer beans and salt,the level will go down th...

Try living in soome of the less "socially aware" of this countrys council or social housing developments. its NOT just people in social housing that are anti social! i live in a council cottage in a very rural area,and its the privately owned propertys that are the problem!people in socia...

i try to be a traditionalist as best i can! all though i do freeze some produce i try where ever posible to use alterative methods,i all ways have in the back of my mind 'what if the leccy goes out?' itd only take one nutter in a sesena light aircraft to take out a power station and were all in the ...

ive got some in the allotment i baught it from dobies 3 years ago as 2 yo crowns,so far its produced about half a dozen spears per year,quite disapointing realy! looks nice though!