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 Topic: Buglife to take legal action against neonics. |
blossom
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 Forum: The Apiary Posted: Mon Nov 26, 12 7:35 pm Subject: Buglife to take legal action against neonics. |
If it does come to court I'd be very interested to hear DEFRA's arguments.
Yes me too. Here in France, the neonics were banned this year - hooray. |
| Topic: Horseradish root |
blossom
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Forum: Grow Your Own Posted: Mon Nov 26, 12 7:27 pm Subject: Horseradish root |
| Is there a tiny chance that anyone might have a bit of root that they might be prepared to send me? |
| Topic: whos done theres |
blossom
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Forum: Grow Your Own Posted: Tue Jan 03, 12 7:04 pm Subject: whos done theres |
It was someone from the HDRA that told me the Boxing Day date many years ago.
Well we did ours last year on 27 February and got a bumper crop in August so maybe it's time in the ground that's the k ... |
| Topic: whos done theres |
blossom
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Forum: Grow Your Own Posted: Tue Jan 03, 12 6:58 pm Subject: whos done theres |
| I always thought that Boxing Day was THE day to plant. Ooops, they don't have Boxing Day here in France so I missed it. Every day since then I've been saying 'right, today I'm going to plant the garli ... |
| Topic: Goat with Lumpy Ear |
blossom
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Forum: Livestock and Pets Posted: Fri May 20, 11 11:08 am Subject: Goat with Lumpy Ear |
| One of my goats had a lump on her ear that was as if she had been biten and it had swollen a bit (slightly smaller than a 5p piece). So I decided to watch closely. It has grown in the past week and ... |
| Topic: What Breed of Sheep? |
blossom
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Forum: Livestock and Pets Posted: Wed May 04, 11 6:21 am Subject: What Breed of Sheep? |
Thank you both. Having now used your info to search photos, I reckon they were Portlands as they all had horns and the Hill Radnors seem to only have horned (or is that 'horney'  oo-er) rams. ... |
| Topic: What Breed of Sheep? |
blossom
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Forum: Livestock and Pets Posted: Mon Apr 18, 11 7:51 am Subject: What Breed of Sheep? |
| Does anyone know what breed of sheep they had on "A Farmer's Life For Me"? They had lovely burnished beige heads and horns. |
| Topic: ds skills share 2011 10th/11th September |
blossom
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Forum: Reviews and What's On Posted: Wed Mar 30, 11 7:25 am Subject: ds skills share 2011 10th/11th September |
Have dates/places been finalised yet?
We'd love to come but have to work around WWOOFers. Unless folk would like to come here???? We have the space and the weather  |
| Topic: Goat's milk |
blossom
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Forum: Livestock and Pets Posted: Wed Mar 30, 11 7:19 am Subject: Goat's milk |
| Very interesting. We're hoping that our goats are pregnant so hopefully the milk thing will start soon. A friend of mine said that she did blind taste tests with her friends and that they couldn't t ... |
| Topic: Unsettled Sow |
blossom
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Forum: Livestock and Pets Posted: Wed Mar 30, 11 7:10 am Subject: Unsettled Sow |
| Thank you for asking Debbie. She seems settled again now. Yes it would have been the time for her season (as in 6 weeks into a pregnancy so 2 lots of 'heats' gone) but she's definitely not 'on'. And ... |
| Topic: Willow |
blossom
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Forum: Land Management Posted: Sun Mar 27, 11 7:12 pm Subject: Willow |
To prevent rooting last year, I put my willow wattles in with the 'cuttings' upside down. Didn't work - they still rooted - sigh  |
| Topic: Unsettled Sow |
blossom
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Forum: Livestock and Pets Posted: Sun Mar 27, 11 7:07 pm Subject: Unsettled Sow |
| We're new to pigs (a year in) but thoroughly enjoying the experience. However, this evening our sow is very unsettled. The boar and the castrated male have gone off to bed but she's still pacing and ... |
| Topic: Duck questions |
blossom
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Forum: Poultry Posted: Thu Mar 03, 11 8:33 am Subject: Duck questions |
| We don't have a gander for precisely that reason. Our 6 girls are really tame and will eat out of my hand. They are good as gold at going in their house at night so it seems that ducks are altogethe ... |
| Topic: Duck questions |
blossom
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Forum: Poultry Posted: Thu Feb 24, 11 2:57 pm Subject: Duck questions |
| Are they messier than geese? |
| Topic: Duck questions |
blossom
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Forum: Poultry Posted: Thu Feb 24, 11 12:26 pm Subject: Duck questions |
Oh dear, I like our toads. Their singing in the spring is one of my great pleasures in life. Might have to not have ducks then  |
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