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 Topic: Straw Bale Gardening |
Kathryn
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 Forum: Grow Your Own Posted: Tue May 08, 12 2:18 pm Subject: Straw Bale Gardening |
here's that link
www.4042.com/4042forums/showthread.php?t=12405
It's a long (60 plus page)thread and most of the people on this forum live in North Carolina, USA where it's much warmer than ... |
| Topic: Straw Bale Gardening |
Kathryn
Replies: 13
Views: 7803
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Forum: Grow Your Own Posted: Tue May 08, 12 1:36 am Subject: Straw Bale Gardening |
| I'm trying this as an experiment in addition to my reg. veg plot this year. It takes a couple of weeks of soaking and then adding a high nitrogen fert, every other day for a week or so before the bale ... |
| Topic: Slugs! |
Kathryn
Replies: 18
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Forum: Grow Your Own Posted: Thu Mar 15, 12 3:59 pm Subject: Slugs! |
It won't kill them but a good line of wood ash laid around the plants you want to protect works on our slugs....you might have different varieties in the UK.?.
You do have to put new ashes down eac ... |
| Topic: Broody Hen question.... |
Kathryn
Replies: 7
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Forum: Poultry Posted: Mon Feb 13, 12 4:26 pm Subject: Broody Hen question.... |
[quote="Chez:1218318":
Can you stop other hens laying in the nest?
Yes, we blocked off the other side of the nest as soon as we realized she was serious about sitting...[it's actually n ... |
| Topic: Broody Hen question.... |
Kathryn
Replies: 7
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Forum: Poultry Posted: Mon Feb 13, 12 4:03 pm Subject: Broody Hen question.... |
| thanks this all sounds encouraging...right now she is in the barn/shed where all the birds live. The nesting box she has chosen is an old lobster crate [our girls all have odd nest tastes] and is one ... |
| Topic: Broody Hen question.... |
Kathryn
Replies: 7
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Forum: Poultry Posted: Mon Feb 13, 12 2:55 pm Subject: Broody Hen question.... |
| One of our hens has gone all broody and has gathered quite a clutch of eggs where she is sitting. Since we have more than enough eggs for our needs at this time, we thought we'd let her sit....don't k ... |
| Topic: blood orange, grapefruit and ginger marmalade |
Kathryn
Replies: 6
Views: 3789
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Forum: Recipes, Preserving, Homebrewing Posted: Thu Jan 26, 12 9:42 pm Subject: blood orange, grapefruit and ginger marmalade |
| This sounds so good...have printed off a copy and plan on making some soon....should I process in boiling water after its in the jars if I want to keep this for a longish time? |
| Topic: Tomato seeds |
Kathryn
Replies: 38
Views: 24280
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Forum: Grow Your Own Posted: Thu Jan 26, 12 9:27 pm Subject: Tomato seeds |
| We find very good flavor in all the brandywine and cherokee varieties. but especially love a striped variety called Pineapple. Tried Black cheery for the first time last year and was very pleased with ... |
| Topic: Looking for a tomato seed |
Kathryn
Replies: 16
Views: 8720
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Forum: Grow Your Own Posted: Thu Jan 26, 12 9:23 pm Subject: Looking for a tomato seed |
| Baker's Creek Heirloom seeds www.rareseeds.com have a "a grappoli d'inverno" which is described as 'the winter grape tomato of old Italy, where the farmers would hang the fruit covered vines and ... |
| Topic: Best lobster recipe |
Kathryn
Replies: 7
Views: 4209
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Forum: Recipes, Preserving, Homebrewing Posted: Tue Dec 27, 11 1:26 pm Subject: Best lobster recipe |
| My sweetie, Paul. started lobster fishing before he entered his teens and is very opinionated about how to cook and eat lobster.....though Enjoy!he can appreciate more complicated recipes, he insists ... |
| Topic: Self raising flour?? |
Kathryn
Replies: 3
Views: 2742
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Forum: Recipes, Preserving, Homebrewing Posted: Sat Dec 10, 11 4:06 pm Subject: Self raising flour?? |
| Thanks...I was thinking it would be about 1 t to 1 cup ...I 'll give it a try. |
| Topic: Self raising flour?? |
Kathryn
Replies: 3
Views: 2742
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Forum: Recipes, Preserving, Homebrewing Posted: Sat Dec 10, 11 3:27 pm Subject: Self raising flour?? |
| Help, I'm making some tea breads that call for self raising flour and realized --too late-- that I don't have any here. Does any one know what amounts of baking powder/baking soda /salt/ and whatever ... |
| Topic: make ahead for chirstmas food |
Kathryn
Replies: 7
Views: 3170
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Forum: Recipes, Preserving, Homebrewing Posted: Sun Dec 04, 11 7:41 pm Subject: make ahead for chirstmas food |
| We stopped having turkey for Christmas when my Mom realized she was spending a great deal of time in the kitchen basting and cooking veg etc....and we switched to lasagna the next year. Some time in t ... |
| Topic: Thick bacon fat - do I just chuck it..? |
Kathryn
Replies: 9
Views: 4782
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Forum: Recipes, Preserving, Homebrewing Posted: Tue Nov 15, 11 5:04 pm Subject: Thick bacon fat - do I just chuck it..? |
| We use a lot of the pig fat for making fat balls for the birds. Also give quite a bit to our friends who hunt. They add it to the moose or deer meat they'll use for sausage....just not enough fat on a ... |
| Topic: Pigs and chickens |
Kathryn
Replies: 17
Views: 14541
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Forum: Livestock and Pets Posted: Sun Nov 13, 11 6:04 pm Subject: Pigs and chickens |
| Our chickens --and often the 6 ducks and16 chickens from 2 neighbors--hang out with our yearly piggies--we've never had any problems. I'm sure there are some eggs that are laid in the wrong places an ... |
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