Hawthorn buds are called Bread and Cheese and were often eaten in the past.
Cyanide has no effect on creatures which lack the enzyme that makes it deadly. Blackbirds do not have this enzyme, we do. I cannot find any record...
It was just a point of interest. If I was really worried about it I would have added the water whilst I was turning the material. The new heap is...
After poring 800 litres of water on it, none ran off the sides. Not inclined to go delving into it to see if the inside is damp. Certainly plenty...
Just turned over my compost heap and much of the bottom material is dust dry. So emptying the water butts on top, just wondered if the water will...
My version of Arkell's ode.More Flowers of the mind.The Hysteria's pulling the support from the wall.You can't see the Fibroids, they are...
Found this one again. Last winter, when I was in bed with the 'FluAnd a temperature of a hundred and two,I was telling the gardener what he...
Or just peel the apples!
Many years ago on the original BBC site there was a similar thread which was closed down by the mods because of a copyright misunderstanding.
All best wishes from me too. We had to move from our huge beautiful garden when it got too much for us and know what a wrench it can be.
They are also very good on a warm windowsill to scent the air. We often make Quince jelly from them. Wait until they are really bright yellow...
Nothing wrong with my immune system, and Pyracantha had the same effect on both myself and my wife. It could just have been the ones we had in our...
Watch out for the thorns every one of them has a pocketful of germs on the tip. One wound and almost immediately it goes septic.
Many years ago we used to go to a Nursery somewhere near Lancaster who had fish in all his water butts and they lived very happily in them.
If you take the water from the tap at the base of the water butt, then all you need to do is to put a teaspoon of olive oil in the top of the...
It is not a new problem. Over 30 years ago I stood with the Head of an Infant School and watched as a mother wheeled a child up in a pram,...
Is this reliably perennial? Not something I have ever grown, but neighbour has a lovely specimen so I wondered if it was worth giving the plant a...
This is now present on every Continent (Even Antarctica). The seeds explode out of the pods and are very, very long lived.The roots have tiny (and...
Flame guns have no effect on it. Never found anything that will actually kill it other than extreme drought.
[ATTACH] The seeds I sowed were from P. Apple Blossom. Some of mine set seed quite readily. I really ought to dead head them I suppose. This is...
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