Thanks Diane, your practical advice is rather more helpful than opinions and questions. A quick note for any other folk experiencing similar problems, further searches have indicated that chemical approachs such as pyrethroid and malathion treatments can pose significant health risks to humans and w...

We bought three hens in March, and last week on inspecting them (they had been shaking their heads a lot) I discovered they had lice. I applied some louse powder bought from Marriages (it has no chemicals in it) twice, but they still have them and the infestation seems to be getting worse. Can you p...

Wow! thank you for all the interesting replies, the jury is still out on the grow lights I may just wait and start a bit later the normal way! Thanks also for the lovely welcome

I am thinking about starting some of my vegetable seeds off early (January) this year indoors using a grow light kit, I am led to believe that blue spectrum light is best for this sort of thing. Grow kits are widely available and Envirolites seem to be the new big thing but they are really expensive...