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Comfrey can cause VOD in quantity....liver failure. Growl...sounded too good to be true: got a huge bed outside the back door. Best carry on using it as mulch and stinky liquid feed. As stinky liquid feed it is indeed lethal and leaves one's clothes stinkier still :/.

I've a strumstick like those. They do pack a punch. Beautiful work.

"The supply of bees is seasonal and their price may vary between 0.5p and 1.5p per bee depending on availability" ...about sums it up really. A Kenyan top bar hive can be had for £60 tops (or less with recycled timber). What's the condensation going to be like in these?

I agree with foxglove. Also Celandine, veronica thingy...blue flower job anyhow, hogweed, burdock.

Cute lump of robin poo...don't ya clone :D?

Please do....we've got two (and another two being built as presents :D) and just moved a nuc in. Exciting times...as bad as the flippin' first baby!

Love these threads....helps you build up a picture of people :). Green tea, proper filter coffee, hot choc and a slug of something (no not a slug....).

1. goosegog 2. goat willow 3. rosebay willowherb 4. garden evergreen thingy sp 5. possibly sycamore 6. elder 7. field rose 8. scots pine 9. ash 10. sycamore 11. buddleia 12. horse chestnut 13. hazel 14. sycamore seedling 15. yew 16. dunno sp 17. ash 18. dog rose 19. wild cherry or plum or...

Right, so it was cleaver tips today. One for the emergency survival list only we concluded. Dead nettle will be next...before the wretched ground elder gets it's annual stewing (hoping it's better than last ;) ).

But neither creep or stay low for long..they're both pseudo carrots :/. Thinking...

Basically beer bread...recipe shamelessly cribbed: "Ingredients * 1-1/4 cups beer * 1/2 stick of butter * 4-teaspoons brown sugar * 1- egg beaten * 2- cups white bread flour * 2- cups whole wheat flour * 1- envelope instant dried yeast * 1-teaspoon salt *...

hmm...some sort of Scottish knees up. Shuffles off... ;) Trisha, escaped south at 25.

We lost some of ours to the frost, but our little pond up the hill is full up (needs dredging this summer!). 8yo informs me that the eggs are getting longer....and when she was fiddling about found a newt. So all's well so far. A couple of years back we took my lad up one of Wales' loftier...

Neat lavender oil (good quality aromatherapy grade) for the standard kitchen type small burns. Straight on. Stinks but never had any after-ouchiness this way. Cooling with water then lavender works too...and again no afterpain. Trisha

Thanks lads for making me laugh on a Sunday morning after being buffeted mercilessly at a Stranglers concert (second row centre and lived :S). Such nice people in the woods by comparison :). Tea? Green or black'n'green Sainsbuggers black. Proper hot choc (co-ops posh is good) with a slug of...

Seeds viable for 7-15 years. Be popping up for a while yet :(. Sort of plant people move house to avoid (my parents did that when I was little cos of a Horsetail forest). Trisha

Quite so. Look at the mess the poor bees are in. Then think long and hard.

So whilst countless others no doubt braved their local carvery...with countless others...for Mothers' Day lunch... ...partner and smallest (8 and 13) lit the new Dakota fire hole in the "lawn" (which isn't) and made veggie sausages and baked beans, garlic mushrooms, and the African stick bread...

Yup, blackthorn's nasty stuff...always seems to get infected really quick: ought to look up the herbalist stuff for anything that might neutralise it for the odd minor prickle. Otherwise handle with welding gloves.

Time on forums? Too much...Gets in the way of doing stuff but as I'm still pretty much resting I don't mind and have been back to a few old haunts! As long as people talk sense... ...mind wouldn't have lasted a week here if I hadn't worked out how to turn the threads right way up! I've seen...