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 Topic: Hello everyone, |
Gray
Replies: 21
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 Forum: Welcome Posted: Fri Oct 26, 12 1:47 pm Subject: Hello everyone, |
Hi from the North East  |
| Topic: Panasonic SD-254 |
Gray
Replies: 14
Views: 8378
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Forum: Recipes, Preserving, Homebrewing Posted: Mon Apr 13, 09 5:59 pm Subject: Panasonic SD-254 |
Hi Meadows - I have an SD-254, to stop a program when started, simply hold down Start/Stop key (last one on the right if they haven't changed the machine !) for more than one second.
When you start ... |
| Topic: Caterpillar and slug devastation |
Gray
Replies: 39
Views: 11518
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Forum: Grow Your Own Posted: Thu Aug 28, 08 11:22 am Subject: Caterpillar and slug devastation |
| My sprouts have been inundated with caterpillar's too, finest net curtain around !. I tried spraying with a 10 part solution of rhubarb & comfrey tea - seems to keep the b****** down. However, th ... |
| Topic: Tomato help |
Gray
Replies: 9
Views: 3558
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Forum: Grow Your Own Posted: Sat Aug 23, 08 11:37 am Subject: Tomato help |
| Chez - mmmmm cake I see now - its may be the same purpose ? as I use - this may sound a bit strange but I use an artists paint brush and 'paint' each individual flower - dont know if it really w ... |
| Topic: Tomato help |
Gray
Replies: 9
Views: 3558
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Forum: Grow Your Own Posted: Sat Aug 23, 08 9:26 am Subject: Tomato help |
| Thanks all for the advice folks - heard of the banana method for bringing unripe fruit on indoors, peaches, apricots plums etc - but this is a new one on me. I forgot to say in my post that my tommy's ... |
| Topic: Tomato help |
Gray
Replies: 9
Views: 3558
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Forum: Grow Your Own Posted: Fri Aug 22, 08 4:00 pm Subject: Tomato help |
The weather has really taken its toll on my Tommy's this year - cold when propagating out, then no sun to talk of (fingers crossed for an indian summer !!)
I've un-ripe fruit on the first & secon ... |
| Topic: Milk Bottle Tops |
Gray
Replies: 10
Views: 8895
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Forum: Reduce, Reuse, Recycle Posted: Mon Aug 18, 08 7:55 am Subject: Milk Bottle Tops |
Dont know if I've been getting this wrong  but i save my aluminium foils scrunch them into a ball and pop them in the can bank |
| Topic: Should fuel tax be cut? ... |
Gray
Replies: 193
Views: 49174
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Forum: Energy Efficiency and Construction/Major Projects Posted: Wed May 28, 08 8:59 am Subject: Should fuel tax be cut? ... |
| I was watching newsnight last night and listening to Kirsty Wark interviewing the environment minister (his name escapes me!!). This is where I get confused - the minister explained that as petrol pri ... |
| Topic: globe artichokes |
Gray
Replies: 26
Views: 9011
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Forum: Grow Your Own Posted: Sun Feb 24, 08 10:19 pm Subject: globe artichokes |
| I've grown some for the past 3 years _ west facing, in poor soil so I give them a yearly dose of compost/ goat p** which seems to do the trick. I get a main crop & smaller sweeter second autumn ti ... |
| Topic: Hello all |
Gray
Replies: 29
Views: 10734
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Forum: Welcome Posted: Fri Feb 22, 08 9:01 am Subject: Hello all |
| Hi Ani Welcome - I too was at Birmingham Uni - Dip. in Food Safety & Food Legislation (The Higher Cert. !) approx 2 years ago. It was in my surfing / not doing uni work moments that I stumbled ... |
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