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Too many vegetable seedlings?

I grow some of my veggies from seeds but it's not always practical and I get frustrated that garden centres only seem to sell boxes of cabbages, sprouts,etc, in packs of 24 seedlings which is far too...
13:48 Fri 28th Apr 20063 answers, last by nickmo 17:52 Fri 28th Apr 2006
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Any aother football exiles?

Oh no! It's football on TV again this evening so I'm in self-imposed exile on this site, in a hot bath, sprawled out on the bed with a good book.......whatever. . Anything except having to share a...
20:15 Thu 27th Apr 20066 answers, last by spk 00:51 Fri 28th Apr 2006
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Aerosol cans in recyling bin

Can you put empty aerosol cans in a local authority glass & can recycling bin? I can't find any guidance on this issue as to whether it causes danger when the cans are actually crushed.
17:55 Thu 27th Apr 20065 answers, last by hugoboss 01:25 Fri 28th Apr 2006
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Digging in lawn clippings

I know it's not recommended to dig fresh lawn cuttings into the soil because they remove nitrogen from the soil but here in a hosepipe-ban area our soil is already as dry as dust. I can't really use...
17:45 Thu 27th Apr 20061 answer, last by Thunderbird+ 01:42 Fri 28th Apr 2006
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Swiss chard

I have a surfeit of Swiss Chard growing in my vegetable patch which must be used up quickly to make room for this year's plantings? Any imaginative ideas as to what I can do with it please?
20:32 Tue 25th Apr 20064 answers, last by nickmo 12:44 Thu 27th Apr 2006
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Help needed from growers beans

Anybody out there who has grown Blue Lake or Cobra climbing beans? And the purple dwarf French beans? Every year I have problems growing these varieties from seed. They either rot or fail to...
17:51 Tue 25th Apr 20062 answers, last by WendyS 20:28 Fri 28th Apr 2006
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When do ISAs end?

Can anybody please confirm exactly when ISAs end? Is it the tax year 2008-9, with the last full year's investment being able to be made after April 5th 2008. OR, April 2009, with the last annual...
14:18 Tue 25th Apr 20061 answer, last by Miss Zippy 17:48 Tue 25th Apr 2006
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Need downpipe converter for water butt

Having just bought a water butt to conserve water, it's proving impossible to buy a (square plastic) downpipe converter connection to divert the water into it . Everywhere locally is sold out due to...
10:30 Fri 21st Apr 20063 answers, last by nickmo 18:21 Fri 21st Apr 2006
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Chiropracticioners

Who has used a chiropractioner to treat a back problem? What did they do? How many treatments did you need and was it effective?
16:45 Mon 17th Apr 20068 answers, last by Postdog 21:30 Mon 17th Apr 2006
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Lady undiscovered dead in flat for 2 years.

With so many people living alone these days and paying bills by direct debits so that debt's don't build up, isn't it sad that we often know so little about our immediate neighbours that something...
18:19 Sun 16th Apr 20065 answers, last by WoWo 10:12 Tue 18th Apr 2006
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Microsoft updates

Why is it that virtually every time we add a Microsoft update to our computers something goes wrong? Are we the only people who suffer such problems? I'm beginning to wonder if they really test their...
21:00 Sat 15th Apr 20063 answers, last by mullein3 13:26 Sun 16th Apr 2006
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Homemade wine won't clear

We made some wine from our own Reisling grapes last autumn which has solidly refused to clear, despite racking off the original yeast. This is the first time this has happened? Any winemakers out...
20:51 Sat 15th Apr 20064 answers, last by beerbelly 23:43 Sat 15th Apr 2006
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Jazzing up white fish

Am seeking some interesting ways of jazzing up white fish as part of a cholesterol-lowering diet. Lots of taste and zing please. The grilled haddock & boiled potatoes we had tonight earned a...
20:11 Wed 12th Apr 20067 answers, last by Ausf-A 17:53 Thu 13th Apr 2006
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Fences rotting at soil level

Years of digging out my compost heaps into borders means that the bottoms of my fence are now below soil level and starting to rot. They can't easily be raised as some of them have climbing plants...
13:56 Sat 08th Apr 20062 answers, last by kuulteach 23:24 Tue 22nd Jul 2014
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Anbody tried Branston Baked Beans

Apparently these are selling rapidly and outperforming the Heinz variety. If you've tried them, which brand did you prefer?
13:37 Mon 03rd Apr 200615 answers, last by DaddyBeans 13:17 Mon 10th Apr 2006
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Recycling water filter cartridges

Does anybody know if Kenwood have a water filter cartridge recycling scheme to where I can send my spent cartridges. I hate to just throw them away. I know Brita does but they will only accept their...
10:09 Mon 03rd Apr 20061 answer, last by Holidaylover 18:42 Thu 17th Aug 2006
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How about a Legal site?

We seem to get a lot of questions in Money and Finance which are actually legally related. Would it be possible to have a Legal section? I guess the difficulty here might be that unless the...
18:24 Sun 02nd Apr 20065 answers, last by dot.hawkes 00:19 Mon 03rd Apr 2006

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