FRom the QUOTE BELOW Plantian Extract it by freezing About freeze extracting this breaks down the cells if you freeze a apple it will be soft as mashed...
... Oh, i tried this trick. Caught a few slugs. Picked and pickled (lol) many slugs every morning. But they still ate hundreds of my herb seedlings, all...
On a v small scale, I planted rocket seed round the lettuces, in a thick 'wall', in ring shapes. It was quite an effective barrier to slugs. The taste is...
Anything used in excess can be harmful, even good food in excess can be harmful - you need a variety of food to get all the nutrients your body needs. I...
... natural predator. Yes, thats why i asked for advice. (BTW, what's the meaning of "leary"?) But another, probably safer option is to keep a duck and to ...
My lettuce inside their rocket hedge were planted outside in the ground in the early summer. It really did keep the slugs'n'snails off - some others not so ...
No native snakes? Yay! Another country to put on my "love list". As for slugs, you might want to try nematodes. Wiggly Wigglers sell them. I haven't gotten...
The life cycle of a slug is that the parent of slug eggs coats the said slug eggs with slime everyday, the hormone in the slime stops the eggs hatching, if the...
It is unlikely that they would survive in the long term. It is true that they can survive low temperatures, but they require a longer summer period (due to the...
Native toads would do the job much better. Create toad-friendly areas and shelters and introduce one or more toads....
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Sep 3, 2008 10:39 am
Hi. I am a new member and looking for source of Convolvulus scammonia - L root or seeds to grow this plant. Would highly appreciate if someone can guide me...
Snakes like eggs and they like baby birds, and they made it difficult for Guam to have any birds. Charlotte www.IonWays.com/Liphart [Non-text portions of this...
George Monbiot The Guardian, Tuesday September 2 2008 http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2008/sep/02/food.foodanddrink Yes, I'm a fructivist. My mission...
Speaking of growing fruit, I have been picking peaches off of my 2 trees for the last 2 days and I still have more to pick. I am, just this very minute...
I have blossoms before and after being placed in boiling water. The jelly is made with flowers, which is an old practice. Does anyone know how long people have...
He should have brought the Agroforestry Research Trust into the article I think..this place stands out in this field. http://www.agroforestry.co.uk/ ... ...
I was just given a heap of ground cherries. Amazing taste! Anyone have any recipes for these. So far, they taste wonderful in salad, on vanilla ice cream...
... blackberries. ... I, my name is Yvan Plante, from Chatham, Québec, Canada. In my forest, i have a huge quantity of blacberry. You can see photos ...
... They'd have an awful time trying to find slugs through a couple of feet snow, which we're apt to have for most of the winter. I think the slugs themselves...
Do you want the seeds. Im not sure if you mean fresh for eating -- sounds like it, but.. It's too bad though that people don't mind growing somthing that ...
There are lots of kinds of ground cherries / husk tomatoes, do you know which kind you have got, -Physalis pruinosa - edulis - etc ?? Geir Flatabø ... ...
I wouldn't worry so much about displacing NATIVE plants. In nature, all is fair - and it is survival of the fittest. I witnessed blackberries growing freely in...
Hi everyone, I want to grow potatoes next year but I am in Wales and we get a lot of rain which brings the potato blight. I have lost crops before to this...
There are quite a few potato varieties that are +/- blight resistant, esp Sarpo Mira and other "Sarpo" varieties.... give great crops with very little...
I disagree, indigenous biodiversity/ecosystems are important. Some of the 'useful' plants listed are seriously invasive. Having said that I have introduced...
This consultation paper seeks comments on drafting planning policy in the following areas: essential dwellings to meet the legitimate needs of rural...
