Dovefromabove

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Broad beans and sweet peas

Posted: 22/12/2012 at 07:15

Make sure they're getting plenty of daylight.

We put all our lawn mowings (from both lawns) on our compost heap, and we layer them with guinea pig poo and the bedding from their cages which is made of shredded newspaper (I receive a carrier bag full every other week or so from a colleague) and we also compost brown paper bags and shredded brown cardboard. All our vegetable waste from the kitchen and garden goes on there, plus an occasional watering with 'recycled beer/cider'. We keep it covered and dry-ish and although I only turn it a few times, I have a long iron bar which I poke into the heap and jiggle it around frequently to aerate it. The heap heats up well and we get lovely compost

Advent prizes

Posted: 20/12/2012 at 05:43

You are all so kind

Thank you xx

Advent prizes

Posted: 19/12/2012 at 06:22

I'm not so keen on his presenting style myself, but there's no doubting his understanding of his subject etc. and I read the article in Gardener's World Mag about his 'new' garden with great interest. There was quite a bit I thought I'd like to read more about, so I'll be very pleased indeed to receive the book

Advent prizes

Posted: 18/12/2012 at 20:30

I've won a copy of Alan T's book

Filter Medium

Posted: 18/12/2012 at 20:22

No idea about your water filter granules, but love your 'nom de plume'.

In the very rural Suffolk village where I grew up (in the late 50s/early 60s) there was an elderly chap who lived in a cottage with his wife and their dog Turpin. He was known to all as Dibbler. He and his wife were very kind and one day I had a nose bleed on the way to school and they took me in and looked after me and Dibbler lent me his clean cotton handkerchief (which of course Ma returned, washed and ironed). Happy days

privet hedge

Posted: 18/12/2012 at 19:34

You'll have earned a "sit by the fire with a winter warmer" after you've done that

Presents

Posted: 18/12/2012 at 19:33

Snowdrops?

Greedy starlings

Posted: 18/12/2012 at 19:25

Hi Lavender Lady - there's a Pound Shop on the trading estate between the football ground and the station - where Boots and Next and Matalan and Morrisons and Hobbycraft are.

I don't know whether they have cheap mealworms, if you find some let me know

If you're ever in the Saxmundham area, this place sells big bags of bird feed which work out cheaper - it'd probably be even cheaper if you picked it up yourself http://www.wildaboutbirds.co.uk/online-shop-3/