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 Topic: Beans - Growing time |
Shan
Replies: 2
Views: 117
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 Forum: Grow Your Own Posted: Tue Apr 16, 19 8:51 pm Subject: Beans - Growing time |
| I generally panic sow toward the end of April and then plant out after my estimate of the last frost - more or less middle to end of May. |
| Topic: Wot's one got growing? |
Shan
Replies: 5
Views: 276
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Forum: Grow Your Own Posted: Fri Apr 05, 19 7:32 am Subject: Wot's one got growing? |
I managed to find a couple of really small plants of torreya nucifera, a nut bearing conifer I've been after for years. Too samll to plant out so I've potted them up, still missing my veg plot
We a ... |
| Topic: Little cluckers |
Shan
Replies: 11
Views: 764
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Forum: Poultry Posted: Thu Apr 04, 19 2:17 pm Subject: Little cluckers |
You should see what mine used to do with shrews and mice!  Definitely mini dinosaurs! |
| Topic: Little cluckers |
Shan
Replies: 11
Views: 764
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Forum: Poultry Posted: Thu Apr 04, 19 1:45 pm Subject: Little cluckers |
| The short answer is if you pick an apple off your tree, you may feed it directly to your chickens. if you take said apple and walk into the house passing through the kitchen, you may not feed it to yo ... |
| Topic: Little cluckers |
Shan
Replies: 11
Views: 764
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Forum: Poultry Posted: Thu Apr 04, 19 12:58 pm Subject: Little cluckers |
When we had chickens, I read them the DEFRA riot act but they still spent hours on the compost heap.  |
| Topic: Wot's one got growing? |
Shan
Replies: 5
Views: 276
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Forum: Grow Your Own Posted: Thu Apr 04, 19 12:57 pm Subject: Wot's one got growing? |
We have the usual herbs and I have some Lemon Grass in a mug currently sprouting roots.
The greenhouse has tomato, pepper, pak choi and chilli plants coming along nicely and the window sill has som ... |
| Topic: New Book - The Sustainable Smallholders' Handbook |
Shan
Replies: 21
Views: 1959
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Forum: Reviews and What's On Posted: Thu Mar 28, 19 3:36 pm Subject: New Book - The Sustainable Smallholders' Handbook |
| Could go back as far as Louis XVI.... |
| Topic: Bacon chop anyone? |
Shan
Replies: 9
Views: 554
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Forum: Grow Your Own Posted: Wed Mar 20, 19 8:14 am Subject: Bacon chop anyone? |
| People also seem to forget that if we don't eat species like the Large Black Pig, it will definitely die out as no one will be breeding it. |
| Topic: It's all a bit fishy |
Shan
Replies: 10
Views: 1357
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Forum: Downsizing abroad Posted: Fri Mar 15, 19 8:48 pm Subject: It's all a bit fishy |
adding value by mending it/adapting it: plenty of ruins for sale (we didn't have the time or inclination to manage that level of repair)
i have a bad back but i could have time and i do have the s ... |
| Topic: It's all a bit fishy |
Shan
Replies: 10
Views: 1357
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Forum: Downsizing abroad Posted: Fri Mar 15, 19 8:47 pm Subject: It's all a bit fishy |
There’s also wind power.
Plenty....  |
| Topic: It's all a bit fishy |
Shan
Replies: 10
Views: 1357
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Forum: Downsizing abroad Posted: Fri Mar 15, 19 3:03 pm Subject: It's all a bit fishy |
adding value by mending it/adapting it: plenty of ruins for sale (we didn't have the time or inclination to manage that level of repair)
sufficient resources for mostly off grid living: you could c ... |
| Topic: It's all a bit fishy |
Shan
Replies: 10
Views: 1357
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Forum: Downsizing abroad Posted: Fri Mar 15, 19 1:36 pm Subject: It's all a bit fishy |
| The North is absolutely beautiful. |
| Topic: It's all a bit fishy |
Shan
Replies: 10
Views: 1357
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Forum: Downsizing abroad Posted: Fri Mar 15, 19 11:37 am Subject: It's all a bit fishy |
| I don't know where the thread is but Mr Shan and I drift between Portugal and Wales. Our intention being to retire there. As things currently stand, you have the NHR route open to you. If the UK becom ... |
| Topic: New Book - The Sustainable Smallholders' Handbook |
Shan
Replies: 21
Views: 1959
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Forum: Reviews and What's On Posted: Thu Mar 14, 19 4:51 pm Subject: New Book - The Sustainable Smallholders' Handbook |
Thanks both. Its been a slog. 70,000 words.....
Of course its never gonna make me rich, so the next book will be a bonkbuster set in the Dordogne. Im changing my name as ill be terribly embarrassed ... |
| Topic: Fox Killing Chickens |
Shan
Replies: 3
Views: 1069
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Forum: Poultry Posted: Thu Mar 14, 19 9:31 am Subject: Fox Killing Chickens |
Nice to see the tables turned!
There is a pair of magpies that regularly visit our garden. I have seen them terrorising the squirrel several times. |
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