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by AL37
20 Jan 2009, 00:04
Forum: Vegetable and Fruit Gardening
Topic: A mole problem.
Replies: 26
Views: 6469

I was reading an old book the other day and one remedy it mentioned was to dig empty wine bottles into the tunnel. It neads to be upright with the neck end open to the wind. Apparently if you get enough wind over the top of the bottle you get the same effect as if you blow over the open end with you...
by AL37
15 Jan 2009, 23:43
Forum: Vegetable and Fruit Gardening
Topic: potatoes and brussel sprouts
Replies: 4
Views: 1411

Hi David, I have grown spuds from shop bought bags of spuds for eating. As previosly said let them sprout a bit first. I used as larger pot as I could find and put two in with multi purpose compost. I didn't get a huge crop but there was enough for a few meals and it was from spuds that would have c...
by AL37
14 Jan 2009, 01:03
Forum: Frugality and Self-Reliance
Topic: Foraging for wood
Replies: 34
Views: 8317

This is something that often bothers me. Where I live there is lots of unmanaged forrest areas and a number of feilds where everyone walks their dogs, these feilds are surrounded by many mature trees a lot of these have been damaged by wind. My brothers business involves a lot of tree felling and he...