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Talkback: How to store, freeze and dry your harvests
I would have thought that blanching soft fruit would make it go mushy and difficult to keep separate when freezing I never blanch soft fruit.  Blueberries, black and red currants just go in a plastic bag or tupperware and get frozen whole by edzell
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12/10/2012 11:22:08
by obelixx
Freezing veg
How do you freeze veg? Vast subject.  Methods vary for different veg.  Some are not sucessful.  Much, much better in my experience to eat all you can fresh and leave freezing veg to to the professionals.  I know lots on this board will disagree by smada_1
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21/09/2012 02:20:35
by Welshonion
Talkback: The benefit of freezing weather in the garden
the big freeze. It is solid clay but even so it hasn't been water logged. We could have done with some more rain this winter - where has it all gone?Still the freeze has been good for breaking down a new flower bed that I had dug over. I just wish that I by woody3
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25/02/2012 14:12:03
by peteballan
Preventing frogs freezing to death in wdlife ponds
. Aim for a good depth of water in at least part of the pond, a couple of feet or so. People are successful with a lot less but the frogs need some under the ice space and water can freeze a foot thick some years. Also a bigger body of water maintains a by Harvey Sanders
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10/05/2013 19:27:38
by Fairygirl
Too cold to relocate perennials?
that although the plants are growing (slowly), and daytime temperatures are above freezing, night time is below freezing, so I'm wondering if I should wait until both day AND night temperatures are above 0C before moving anything. The things I want to move by Tim Burr
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30/03/2013 22:40:27
by hollie hock
Talkback: Growing and storing onions and garlic
We have started chopping our onions up if they have had soggy necks, or bull necks and freezing them for future use. The 'good' onions are hung up to dry and hopefully they'll last. Ive new onions growing on the allotment, and they are looking by susier
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29/07/2012 17:30:22
by Linda Taylor2
Talkback: How to pick herbs
A tip on freezing herbs like parsley. My Mum always froze the leaves of parsley whole in a large ice cream container. Then when she required some parsley she just scraped it out with a fork the required amount. It was then instantly chopped by MariaFloyd
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10/12/2011 11:27:33
by gardenerbest
Talkback: Fungi
like fine weather in the autumn because it helps ripen their tissues for the on-coming cold of winter. Plants with too much water in them will be damaged in a freeze. by hereisabee
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28/11/2011 18:39:35
by maggyj
spring hijacked!
this has been a very up and down winter season one minute its mild next water logged! now were freezing it out and the plants dont know if there comming or going. the dafs are in bud a few i belive are in flower the tulips are showing signs of leaf by green fingerd will
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10/02/2012 15:05:10
by green fingerd will
Camellia fungus
put it in the freezer to keep? Whatever it is, it's unlikely to stand freezing if it's a fugus. Do you have a friend who's a member of the RHS? They would identify it for you. That sould have been "fungus", not "fugus" by Charlotteg
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01/06/2012 17:58:03
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