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I recently came across this article entitled: " Look Up! The Billion-Bug Highway You Can't See ." by Robert Krulwich http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=128389587 I have to say I had not even thought about our enemies habits & lives other than the aspects of them as they...

:frow I thought I would add this short link that shows how you can use a small space in a large city & turn a mess into somewhere which is beautiful & productive. Well done in Seattle......! http://hillsandplainsseedsavers.blogspot.com/2009/12/growing-not-just-food-but-life.html :bee...

Hoodat wrote: Does anyone use cold frames any more? They used to be a regular feature for every serious gardener :frow Here in the UK cold frames are used all the time, especially for hardening off plants prior to planting-out in Spring. I use a version of them because the walls of my...

Great stuff lupinfarm, :frow I really enjoyed reading all the links. It was such a treat seeing all that beautiful Canadian coutryside again. I remember it as being very lovely I worked a lot, over the years, in Ontario & in Alberta........very different landscapes of course. Those...

:frow Hi lupinfarm ! Welcome back from wherever you have been.............. :) Hope you had a great time? Oooooh! I would love an allotment with the chance of seeing it being worked by horse-drawn machinery! I.m lucky enough to overlook a couple of fields with ponies in them as one of my...

Hi boggy b !! :frow Great avatar & a great blog..........I love the dog too! My it is hot here, they say it is 84*F but it feels a lot hotter in the sun. I know this is not so bad compared to what some of you suffer but not many people have A/C here. I'm lucky as my house is made of a very...

:coolsun :coolsun :coolsun :coolsun :coolsun :coolsun :coolsun Hi there! No I haven't forgotten about this thread........It's just that I have been a bit busy with my own little patches of soil........ I just HAD to get my raised beds planted up -- it just took a lot longer than I...

:ep Hi boggy b, Thanks a lot for passing this link on........It is just what I have been looking for & couldn't find. Not that anything is wrong at the moment.....rather the opposite actually, but I know just how quickly it can all change.........! BE PREPARED........!! :hide :fl I just...

:hit :( :hit Yet more revelations......!!It goes on & on & on & in the end we all suffer one way or another.....! Headline is: "How Goldman gambled on starvation Speculators set up a casino where the chips were the stomachs of millions. What does it say about our system that we can so...

:frow :frow Further information that shed life is growing fast in the UK.........!! :ep http://www.shedworking.co.uk/2010/07/more-sheds-than-households-in-uk-says.html Steve, what a great story. I loved it,thank you. I hope you all have a great holiday weekend with your families & friends&...

:frow :frow Good morning & welcome to July! :coolsun Next week is National Shed Week in the UK! So I thought I would give you a link to a great site in the UK which is dedicated to them & shows examples from all round the world. http://www.shedworking.co.uk/ Here are some other links to...

:frow :frow Steve, :bow :love Thank you so much for all your suggestions........my mind is a-buzzing now.....I need a peaceful day in the garden to think all this over.......it takes me a while nowadays to come to a decision & a lot longer to execute it.....! :old However I do have two...

:frow :frow I have been thinking about going back to growing potatoes again, probably starting next year. My brain has been examining the scheme for weeks now, as I planted up my raised beds; they were very late as it was so very cold this year with our last frosts in the first week of...

:frow :frow Hi boggy b, Here is some more info on late blight that I found this morning -- I am so nervous about having another attack of it after last years complete wipe-out. The weather has turned warm & very humid overnight & is likely to stay like that for about a week...

:frow FOOD STORAGE INFO: http://www.uga.edu/nchfp/how/store.html Hattie

:rolleyes: Hrrrrrrrumph............!!..........Tell me how we ever can make containment totally sure? PLEASE.....!! :idunno :old Hattie :old

:frow The moment you put the small plants in the soil cover the whole area with wide row covers & keep them covered . Then the butterflies can't lay the eggs, no eggs=no cabbage worm= no damaged cabbages.......!! :happy_flower I do it now & it is really easy. It also keeps the pigeons &...

:rolleyes: Hmmmmm!! I don't like the sound of this one little bit...........!!! http://www.telegraph.co.uk/foodanddrink/7857310/Giant-salmon-will-be-first-GM-animal-available-for-eating.html :old Hattie :old

:frow :frow Update 27th June '10 Up till now I have been adding this Rockdust into all my raised vegetable beds & pots with pretty amazing results. As an old cynic I can't actually believe the results. I have never seen such beautiful large vegetables in any garden of mine. It is still early...

:frow Information on solarization of soil (thank you vfem for finding this link). :D http://www.waynesthisandthat.com/solarization.htm :tools Hattie :tools