If it's "dusty" inside, that probably means its just mature, the "dust" is the spores - as in puffballs.

Chantal I'm hoping you don't go with the better known Bible "And it came to pass, when he began to reign, as soon as he sat on his throne, that he slew all the house of Baasha: he left him not one that pisseth against a wall, neither of his kinsfolks, nor of his friends." ( I Kings 16:11) ...

Pee: the book



Alan

I enjoyed "how to prune herbaceous..."

Alan

Fig trees are very hardy, not so the fruits. The small figs are the embryo fruit (with the flowers inside) which will develop into the next season's ripe figs. They can be affected by frost - or people picking them off I have a fig which is less hardy than Brown Turkey, which I got as a cutting from...

Sure thing, Bren

Three for the price of one:


http://www.irishcultureandcustoms.com/3 ... 1Home.html

http://www.irish-sayings.com/irishblessings.php

http://islandireland.com/Pages/folk/sets/bless.html

Are you thinking of learning?

Go n-eírí an bóthar leat.
May the road rise with you.

Alan

Let's hear it for the locking knife (too many cut fingers otherwise). http://i140.photobucket.com/albums/r30/alanrefail/300px-OpinelKnife_open.jpg I go nowhere without my Opinel no. 10. I suspect round here more people carry knives than don't. Wife always wanted a gun, but I insisted that was going ...

Bore da, Alison

I tried a search, but was put off by the suggestion that there are probably 1.5 million species of fungus to check though.

Not a very helpful answer I'm afraid.

Alan

If you want spring cabbages to grow on outside, you need to sow them early August where you are, and plant out in Autumn to overwinter. Late winter is not a good time for planting out anything. It's perfectly easy to sow spring cabbages in a seedbed outside and then transplant from there to final po...

I'd always wondered too. So its a case of

The moving finger writes and having writ, moves on.

And an even tastier one. Go on, give it a try. Nettle and Wild Garlic Soup 4 oz nettle shoots (a carrier bagful) 2 oz wild garlic leaves 1 oz butter 1 medium onion chopped fine 1 medium potato peeled and quartered 1 pint good chicken stock (not a cube) grated nutmeg, salt and pepper and double cream...

Great website. I have long hoped the nettle would get the recognition it deserves. Seriously. We have nettle soup every spring - as I have been posting in the Recipes and Harvesting threads. Nettles are full of iron and vitamin C and act as a tonic, probably physically and certainly psychologically....

No, Bren, but I know a website that is


Nár laga Dia do lámh
May God not weaken your hand.

Alan

CJ

Here's a whole French website devoted to horseradish. They suggest Vilmorin sell thongs.

http://raifort.free.fr/ou/ou.html

Alan

Before I forget, a Happy St Patrick's Day to you all

Beannachtaí na Féile Pádraig oraibh!

Hope the Irish is correct.

Alan