I dug up my Pink Fir Apples, Shetland Blacks, Mayan Golds and some more of the Roosters. The dreaded blight struck.I got a lot of PFA's and a...
Hopefully you will be able to use the logs for something - its a lovely timber.
Mowed the lawn, which I haven't got to lately - as was hoping to have got my big mower fixed. It was getting too tall so no option - had to...
Hi ColinThe three phase supply will be handy for a lot of things I'm hoping but I need to build a workshop. I can hardly get in my garage....
A fiddle is what we called a violin back home in Shetland. Traditionally played up in shetland - aly bain is probably one of the best know for...
One of my father's friends made violins as a hobby.He had some tiny curved bottom planes, that he used as part of the shaping process- odd...
lifted some tatties today. First time we've grown Yetholm Gypsies, not a massive yield but they are tasty. Made chips with them tonight and will...
Your indoor plants are looking very healthy. Mine are outside and have all fallen over with the rain.
Vine Weevil would be my guess.
Dug up the first of the Vivaldi plants. Thought I'd try these for baking potatoes as supposedly good for baking.[IMG]The Yield was ok I...
Difficult to be sure what it is from the pics. It could be a field mushroom or a young horse mushroom. The main unpleasant one that looks kind...
Good drainage may be my downfall. We planted a walnut a couple of years ago and its just sitting in the ground sulking, its not liking the clay I...
After a bit of digging about I came across Andrew Lear who is involved with Blackhaugh Farm - a community managed 43 acre farm in Spittalfield,...
I got a couple of builders bags of compost/soil mix from compost direct for raised beds and general use earlier this year. One called black gold...
Thanks NigelI'll give them a try
I'm looking at planting another fruit tree. I was wondering if there was any chance of a getting any fruit off a greengage in Scotland (I'm near...
Lovely weather here - if your a duck.Won't be needing to get the hose out any time soon anyway.Torrential rain with some thunder and lightning.
Its painfully slow and laborious. I have to get the rooves sorted on the house here and part of that involves alterations to the kitchen and...
Good you didn't have to. I've got a little bit of underpinning to do here. Its very time consuming as normally it can only be done in small...
I was doing some work for a client that was building a large house in the Grange area of Edinburgh. There was a sweeping handrail on the stair....
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