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Cynical old me?

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by snooky » Thu Aug 09, 2012 9:51 pm

Tesco have recently had one of their "5 pence off a litre of fuel"promotions,coupon with a £40.00 spend in store.Two weeks ago,when the...

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Fri Aug 10, 2012 5:57 pm
Sunflower poser

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by vegpatchmum » Thu Aug 09, 2012 8:42 pm

Every year for the last 7 or so we have grown sunflowers in the garden and every year, every one of them has, without fail flowered like this:...

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Thu Aug 09, 2012 10:19 pm
Carrot Fly/ Comfrey mixture

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by Shallot Man » Mon Aug 06, 2012 10:33 am

For the first year I have a comfrey barrel, comfrey leaves in an onion sack weighted down in a 40 gall barrel. Heaven's don't it pen and ink. Whilst...

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Wed Aug 08, 2012 7:00 am
Quirky news item, "Should armies use lead-free bullets?"

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by peter » Tue Aug 07, 2012 9:53 am

A quirky BBC story today.

Sounds so bizairre, the purpose of a bullet is to kill, however the statistics say that the majority of bullets are fired...

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Tue Aug 07, 2012 6:39 pm
It's here!

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by Westi » Fri Jul 27, 2012 9:03 pm
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OK only just started - lets compare what we thought was good & bad, happy & sad tomorrow!

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Mon Aug 06, 2012 8:20 pm
Trace elements in soil, can you replace them?

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by peter » Fri Aug 03, 2012 3:37 pm

I read a health article this week (partly quoted below with a link to the original article) that as well as making me consider varying the vitamin...

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Mon Aug 06, 2012 4:30 am
Funny Looks.

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by snooky » Fri Jul 27, 2012 5:02 pm

On my way to my allotment I pass the local stables.Every morning the more experienced riders bring their horses out on to the roadway where at least...

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Sun Aug 05, 2012 12:09 pm
Positive things here - come on 1 each from all of you

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by vegpatchmum » Tue Jul 03, 2012 10:30 pm
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Following on from the 'Let's give up and try again next year' thread:

Come on guys! Let's try for some positivity here. All year I have been...
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Sat Aug 04, 2012 3:59 pm
A balanced view

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by farmer jon » Thu Aug 02, 2012 11:55 pm

it greatly disturbs me , the way editors & presenters alike give virtually zero coverage of dealing with pests,diseases & weed control by...

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Sat Aug 04, 2012 5:51 am
Happy Birthdays

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by alan refail » Wed Aug 01, 2012 6:39 am

piece of cake.JPG

Best birthday wishes to Shallotman and Arnie

You'll have to share the cake.

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Fri Aug 03, 2012 6:09 pm
Breakfast: the most important meal of the day

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by alan refail » Fri Jul 27, 2012 11:50 am
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I have always accepted the saying that breakfast is the most important meal of the day. A real breakfast may have plenty of calories, but it should...
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Fri Aug 03, 2012 1:33 pm
Overload

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by Arnie » Tue Jul 24, 2012 11:11 am

Hi Everyone,

Is it just me or are any of you fed up with all things Olympic, there is no escape from it, it's everywhere :x :x
I got the remote for...

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Fri Aug 03, 2012 10:48 am
Old fridge shelves

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by JohnN » Wed Aug 01, 2012 11:58 am

If you're chucking out an old fridge/freezer with slatted shelves, you may find it worth keeping the shelves. I've mounted mine on brick...

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Thu Aug 02, 2012 11:08 am
Mr Muck

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by Ken65 » Tue May 08, 2012 8:19 am
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Has anyone used Mr Mucks Composted Horse Manure.
I've recently bought a load and initially it seems a very good clean compost, easy and clean to...
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Tue Jul 31, 2012 11:46 am
Yet another Olympic security fiasco

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by vegpatchmum » Fri Jul 27, 2012 1:17 pm

Oh deary me, at this rates these Olympics will be remembered for all the wrong reasons :roll:

Three security staff were arrested on Wednesday on...

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Mon Jul 30, 2012 5:56 pm
Olympics and aminopyralid

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by alan refail » Sun Jul 29, 2012 11:52 am

Gardeners might care to know that, apart from Coca-Cola (a useful brass cleaner) and McDonald's (noted suppliers of fat-forming food) one of the...

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Sun Jul 29, 2012 3:55 pm
As near to a miracle as you can get.

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by oldherbaceous » Tue Jul 24, 2012 7:36 pm

I was working down the other end of the village this morning, just one paddock along from my Mums. I had been working for about an hour at the front...

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Sun Jul 29, 2012 2:17 pm
Getting SO close, I can almost 'smell' it

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by Piglet6 » Thu Jul 19, 2012 7:18 am
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I'm at the top-ish (2nd) of the waiting list for an allotment. Came home to a message on Tuesday saying that 1 whole plot & 2 half plots have...
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Sun Jul 29, 2012 1:46 pm
Ladybird Lavae in the greenhouses :)

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by vegpatchmum » Tue Jul 24, 2012 1:18 pm

Yay!!!! A lovely surprise to see some ladybird lavae in the greenhouse feeding, I hope, on the zillion of aphids also in the greenhosues :D

Very...

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Sun Jul 29, 2012 9:29 am
Only 5 weeks, 3 days, 21 hours and 15 minutes .......

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by vegpatchmum » Fri Jul 27, 2012 11:37 am

...... until school opens again (not that I'm counting you understand :roll: :wink: ). I think my two girls give a whole new meaning to the words:...

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Sun Jul 29, 2012 9:23 am
Weird

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by Colin Miles » Fri Jul 27, 2012 4:45 pm

The only way to describe this growing season. Saw a white-tail bumblebee yesterday - and a bee somehow found its way into the house - trying to...

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Sat Jul 28, 2012 8:57 pm
Brass garden sprayer

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by Shallot Man » Fri Jul 27, 2012 4:11 pm

After many years faithful service the leather washers in my brass garden sprayer have given up the ghost. After much searching online I have found a...

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Sat Jul 28, 2012 7:58 pm
Is Hubby changing his tune???????

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by Piglet6 » Thu Jul 19, 2012 7:22 am

Hubby was home from work when I returned from looking at the allotments (none of them mine yet), with an armful of rhubarb!

I told him all about the...

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Sat Jul 28, 2012 2:15 pm
Milk prices!

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by Johnboy » Tue Jul 10, 2012 7:45 am
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Now I appreciate that this posting has nothing whatsoever with gardening or growing but I feel that it seriously affects the vast majority of...
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Last post by Colin Miles
Wed Jul 25, 2012 12:10 pm
Looking for a kitchen garden design and horticulture course

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by Rhasset Ranger » Tue Jul 24, 2012 12:46 pm

I'm looking for a part-time or short residential course, not home study, which will help me improve my veg growing ability and give me the skills to...

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Last post by Westi
Tue Jul 24, 2012 8:51 pm
Hello from the South Coast

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by 2ofus » Wed Jul 18, 2012 8:49 pm

Hi everyone, I can't find a 'welcome place' but hope it's acceptable in this general discussion?
After browsing various topics here I think my wife...

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Last post by Westi
Sat Jul 21, 2012 9:24 pm
sad day thursday

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by ashb » Fri Jul 20, 2012 7:31 pm

:( We had to have our belgian sheperd ellie b put to sleep last night, she had a fit and never came out of it so i sent for the vet and to cut a long...

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Sat Jul 21, 2012 7:39 pm
Compost Health Hazard

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by Cider Boys » Mon May 28, 2012 6:41 am

Using new fangled non-peat based compost may damage your health.

"Specialists are now investigating whether recent changes to compost formulas...

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Last post by alan refail
Fri Jul 20, 2012 2:32 pm
Aren't groceries a shocking price now!?

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by Piglet6 » Thu Jul 19, 2012 7:29 am

I have noticed this year that just popping into the supermarket for tea things for that night is costing more and more.

Now, I'm not expecting...

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Fri Jul 20, 2012 8:47 am
A Celebration of the Natural World and Human Genius.

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by Nature's Babe » Wed Jul 18, 2012 9:10 am

Not all Technology is damaging to the environment.it is not inevitable. Technology can also learn from and celebrate nature, using man's brilliance,...

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Thu Jul 19, 2012 4:29 pm
North Lincs free swimming for under 16s in hols

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by vegpatchmum » Wed Jul 18, 2012 7:01 pm

Once again North Lincs Council have decided to offer free swimming to all under 16's at all their Leisure Centres from Monday 23rd July 2012 until...

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Thu Jul 19, 2012 6:33 am
Soppy?

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by peter » Fri Jul 06, 2012 3:36 pm
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At the vets this morning with the dog for her annual visit & jabs. A flustered young mother with toddler in tow and carrying a cardboard box...
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Wed Jul 18, 2012 3:41 pm
HELP needed tracking down a product

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by vegpatchmum » Wed Jul 18, 2012 10:05 am

Hi guys,

I am currently in the process of putting together a grant applicaiton to try and secure more funding for the school garden. The aim of the...

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Last post by Tony Hague
Wed Jul 18, 2012 11:24 am
Contribute to the KG debate - compact vs traditional varieties

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by KG Steve » Wed Jul 11, 2012 3:51 pm

Hi All
Funny you should all be talking about contributions to the mag. I'd like to ask you for another now! (Sorry Nature's Babe, as you suspect I...

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Tue Jul 17, 2012 4:36 pm
Little Free Library

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by Nature's Babe » Sat Jul 14, 2012 10:23 pm

What a wonderful idea for those gardening and cookery books etc that we no longer read ! Using recycled materials make a small waterproof roofed...

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Mon Jul 16, 2012 7:03 pm
If only old wives' tales were true

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by alan refail » Sun Jul 15, 2012 5:47 am

St Swithun's day if thou dost rain
For forty days it will remain
St Swithun's day if thou be fair
For forty days 'twill rain nae mare

If only I...

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Sun Jul 15, 2012 5:26 pm
The WI and Guerilla gardeners

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by Nature's Babe » Sat Jul 14, 2012 9:54 pm

Nowhere to grow? Check out these links. :)

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Sat Jul 14, 2012 9:54 pm
Being old just threatened to get worse

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by alan refail » Wed Jul 11, 2012 4:12 pm

We have a saying in Welsh: "Henaint ni ddaw ei hunan" - Old age does come unaccompanied. And the older among us know what that means.

I...

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Sat Jul 14, 2012 5:34 pm
What beasty keeps biting me!!!!!

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by vegpatchmum » Fri Jul 13, 2012 8:09 am

I'm not normally bothered by bites but this year, something is in the gardens that has a nasty, nasty bite to it and whatever it is likes the flavour...

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Sat Jul 14, 2012 11:08 am
Great Yorkshire Show

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by Monika » Wed Jul 11, 2012 7:20 pm

As you may have seen from the KG website front, the Great Yorkshire Show was cancelled last night after just one day. That's such a shame - just...

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Thu Jul 12, 2012 1:06 pm
A KG record this month?

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by peter » Wed Jul 04, 2012 3:46 pm

For the number of published contributions in the magazine from forum members. :D :lol: :D

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Wed Jul 11, 2012 3:51 pm
Happy Birthday Johnsgirl.

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by oldherbaceous » Tue Jul 10, 2012 5:12 am

A very Happy Birthday to you Johnsgirl, hope you have a lovely day.... :)

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Tue Jul 10, 2012 11:04 pm
Olympic Torch Relay

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by vegpatchmum » Tue Jun 26, 2012 9:05 pm
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As far as I am concerned this years Olympics is NOT a national event, more one to attract visitors to London and, as such, is aptly named London 2012...
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Tue Jul 10, 2012 8:26 pm
Garden Shed with a View

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by Nature's Babe » Tue Jul 10, 2012 9:47 am

What is the view like from yours? 8) :lol:

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Last post by alan refail
Tue Jul 10, 2012 10:06 am
particles

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by Sammy » Mon Jul 09, 2012 8:12 am

My neighbour was telling me last week, when she was putting her bin out, that the Swiss had made some new particles. They are going to call them...

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Mon Jul 09, 2012 6:24 pm
Happy Birthday Parsons Jack

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by alan refail » Sat Jul 07, 2012 5:36 am

We haven't seen you on the forum for a long while and are missing you.

Have a very happy 63rd.

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Mon Jul 09, 2012 5:23 pm
Poly Tunnels

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by Benspab12 » Mon Jul 09, 2012 4:07 pm

I have a greenhouse on my allotment, but I am thinking of investing in a poly tunnel.

Any advice on the best one/ones to buy will be gratefully...

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Mon Jul 09, 2012 4:07 pm
Good news for Oxfam

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by alan refail » Mon Jul 09, 2012 6:40 am

Federer's defeat of Britain's Andy Murray in Sunday's Wimbledon final means the charity will now collect a payout from William Hill of £101,840.

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Mon Jul 09, 2012 6:40 am
Digging a lane

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by JohnN » Sat Jul 07, 2012 11:31 am

This isn't strictly a gardening query, but I feel someone out there will have a good suggestion!
I live down a cinder lane which soon gets lots of of...

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Last post by oldherbaceous
Sun Jul 08, 2012 4:04 pm
Let's just give up and try again next year!

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by alan refail » Wed Jun 13, 2012 7:28 am
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Too hot, too cold, too windy, too dry and now torrential storms over here. I planted out courgettes, pumpkins and climbing beans yesterday, at least...
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Sat Jul 07, 2012 5:43 pm

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