Kitchen Garden Forum

Colin, it's good that consumers like you keep contacting these companies on issues like this and keep the pressure. I know that many reputable companies are looking for ways to make their goods more environment friendly, but consumer pressure always helps concentrate the mind.

I think organisations like Greenleace, Change.Org and 38 Degress help add consumer pressure with the various petitions that are raised from time to time but when an individual customer takes the trouble to write in, it shows companies that consumers do have concerns which they want taken seriously.

Boiling water, teapot, loose-leaf tea, strainer.
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If I manage to fill the pot to much it's liable to slop on me clogs and mi ma will batter me

I'm a loose tea leaf gal too. The roses and all the acid lovers in the garden get the dregs.

I laid the keel for my ark today it's rained that much since the weekend I've collected two snails and two slugs I'm thinking of doing the world a favour and killing one of each but it douse not seem fair

Just when i start to think, "It hasn't rained today, the winds drying the soil a bit, I might be able to do some more digging tomorrow.." what happens?

It ****ing well starts raining and doesn't stop.......

Robo - do it....for the sake of us delphinium lovers.

Brilliant Diane....

Managed to plant 33 potato sets before the rain started, had a conversation with the pest control officer (rat man ) he showed me some pictures of three deer he had taken one morning last week he said they were two fields away from our allotment I'm amazed this is the industrial north we don't get things like deer or should I say we didn't used too

Well done for getting the potato sets in, Robo, a real credit to you with everything you have going on at the moment....just out of interest, did the pest control officer say what type of deer they were?

Tasty was what I heard...…………………………….

A dry morning today (hooray!), so I planted my broad beans out from roottrainers but covered them with a light netting because there could well be snow or sleet the next few days.

I think he said roe deer but there are not many experts in this area ,his biggest fear is that some of the local dick heads will find out about them and start hunting them with dogs , we have had rumours over the last four years my grandsons teacher at college came in one morning and said he had seen deer running down the road not far away from the m6 and other rumours that some had been seen in golbourne which is an ex mining village around five miles away

Spuds in already! That is early in my book and, Robo, you are well north of me.