Chantal Do not be ashamed of being afraid of needles. I am a 100% true blue coward and shut my eyes when one is shown on TV.. and cannot watch injections.. mine or anyone else's. So compared to me you are very brave.. Hope you suffer no ill effects. I find gin has medicinal properties when taken int...

You do leave the pheasants to hang for 2 weeks ?

I found in the past this makes them easier to pluck and more tasty...

rear garden: 30metres x20 metres
side garden (mostly hard surface ) 10x12
Front: 4x12

I always plant with lots of well rotted compost mixed in and a 2-3cm layer of top of the ground - conserves summer moisture and - for a lazy gardener like me - suppresses weed growth.
As rasps are shallow rooted you should not hoe round them - is my excuse....

I find latex gloves make my hands sweat and as I have an occasional attack of peeling skin..(an old attack caused by welding damage to skin)... I need some protection. I use Neutrogena hand cream instead for any gardening ( and thick gloves for rough work) and save the latex gloves for garage work o...

As someone who joined last year, I found here friendly and not the least daunting....(but then my wife says my skin makes a rhino hide look thin:-)

1cm snow here. Hard frosts (-3 to -6C) here..fed birds this am - all delighted especially the jackdaws who eat peanut cake. Even a thrush came.. a rare visitor. and the squirrels from the oak trees in the field.. a real PIA...

Well I have sowed geraniums, begonia, busy lizzies, a few tomatoes ( long maturing ones), peppers, and a few petunias.
On our south facing window sills in covered trays . Same routine every year. Means come March life gets a bit hectic...

We stopped keeping cats after the last one died 10 years ago: our bird population now thrives

I had a similar problem with our 24 year old greenhouse. A morning on a ladder with a gun of clear silicone mastic (£2.50) on a dry and warmish day solved it.

We bought our first and only greenhouse from Tesco in 1984 - an AGL Pentland 8x6. It is bare aluminium and we bought it with galvanised steel base, guttering , an opening top window and a louvred side window. Simple horticutural glass. In that time we have had 3 broken panes - football - so toughene...

I recall some very rude jokes in a similar vein about what men like and what women like...it is ,however, totally unsuited to a bb like this:-).

I started growing when we moved to our current house some 20 years ago. I started with the easy things and being a simple soul have continued on that way. I can recommend raspberries: minimal work all year but delicious fruit which is much better than bought and much cheaper. Glen Ample - mentioned ...

The Great Archives determine you to have gone by the identity:
Milosh Cromwell
Known in some parts of the world as:
Master of Beijing
The Great Archives Record:
More of a spirit than a vampire, wandering the Orient in search of a lost love.

We have some flattened worms in Staffordshire: normal size with round heads and flattened middle body. Seem normal otherwise. As far as red composting worms are concerned, my experience is that if you start a compost heap on bare earth, the red worms will eventually find your heap. And then propagat...