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by Brambles
Tue Jun 12, 2018 8:43 am
Forum: Food, Nutrition and Agriculture
Topic: Low-cost recipe blog
Replies: 47
Views: 10644

Re: Low-cost recipe blog

I've always found with herbs less is more, otherwise you can end up with medicinal stew :? or worse, soapy soup. :shock:
by Brambles
Tue Jun 12, 2018 7:17 am
Forum: Food, Nutrition and Agriculture
Topic: What are you dehydrating?
Replies: 594
Views: 256313

Re: What are you dehydrating?

The Spinach took four hours to dehydrate from very wet. I've rehydrated a bit and there's no difference between it and fresh cooked. I call that a win :D So you wilted it first? Full leaves? I grow a lot of spinach,this could work. Yep, wilted the leaves whole, squeezed out a lot of the water and t...
by Brambles
Mon Jun 11, 2018 6:14 pm
Forum: Food, Nutrition and Agriculture
Topic: What are you dehydrating?
Replies: 594
Views: 256313

Re: What are you dehydrating?

The Spinach took four hours to dehydrate from very wet. I've rehydrated a bit and there's no difference between it and fresh cooked. I call that a win :D
by Brambles
Mon Jun 11, 2018 2:31 pm
Forum: Food, Nutrition and Agriculture
Topic: What are you dehydrating?
Replies: 594
Views: 256313

Re: What are you dehydrating?

Bit of an experiment today. I got a bag of spinach so have wilted it and now in the dehydrator.
by Brambles
Sun Jun 10, 2018 6:11 pm
Forum: Equipment
Topic: Denso tape uses?
Replies: 22
Views: 6826

Re: Denso tape uses?

Deeps wrote: Sun Jun 10, 2018 9:12 am
Plymtom wrote: Sun Jun 10, 2018 6:59 am the Tamar bridge
Going wildly off topic but I always said being the Navigator on the Torpoint ferry was my dream job. 8-)
That must have the smallest set of charts ever :D
by Brambles
Sun Jun 10, 2018 12:44 pm
Forum: How are you preparing
Topic: What Preps are you doing this week? Part 5.
Replies: 796
Views: 195626

Re: What Preps are you doing this week? Part 5.

I've still got my mother's old hand cranked singer . At some point my father put a motor on it but by pulling off the drive belt and screwing the handle back on I could use it manually again should the need arise. Snap! :P Mine is the same. I've got a box full of assorted feet for it, but am having...
by Brambles
Sun Jun 10, 2018 10:02 am
Forum: Food, Nutrition and Agriculture
Topic: A Runner Bean Question.
Replies: 19
Views: 4077

Re: A Runner Bean Question.

That's it J. Last year I was still picking beans in October and if I'm honest, was fed up with them. The garden always had something growing and if I remember rightly, the winter brassicas went in after the beans. Thinking about it, we ate very seasonally and the garden provided almost all our needs...
by Brambles
Sun Jun 10, 2018 8:13 am
Forum: Food, Nutrition and Agriculture
Topic: A Runner Bean Question.
Replies: 19
Views: 4077

Re: A Runner Bean Question.

Just to add, The method of Runner Bean culture we are discussing was used by my father for many years, he never used poles or lines for beans to climb and I know he would not have grown them like this if all he was doing was feeding slugs. The season was not as long, but to be honest that's how he (...
by Brambles
Sun Jun 10, 2018 8:03 am
Forum: Food, Nutrition and Agriculture
Topic: Slug control in the garden
Replies: 21
Views: 5479

Re: Slug control in the garden

The best non chemical method I ever used was a a barrier of holly leaves. I used to have a beautiful raised bed garden at the preppers paradise I once lived in and found that a 'mini hedge' of holly leaves about 6 inches in from the boards stopped all but the most determined slugs and snails. I have...
by Brambles
Sun Jun 10, 2018 7:51 am
Forum: Food, Nutrition and Agriculture
Topic: A Runner Bean Question.
Replies: 19
Views: 4077

Re: A Runner Bean Question.

Expanding a little on the slug control ( it is important where runners are concerned!), I use very few pellets. It is mainly a little judicious use to protect young plants. I always have enough on hand for two growing seasons, along with a bucket of granular ( chemical) fertiliser. Reason being tha...