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Dec 6th 2022, 11:04 pm
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Posted By lizzyq

Re: Home and garden projects

One of these? https://www.amazon.co.uk/Diverter-Splitter-Universal-Component-Replacement/dp/B07NPPP4JH/ref=sr_1_47
Jul 30th 2022, 11:42 pm
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Re: Home and garden projects

To be perfectly honest if we didn't grow hydroponically I don't think we could either.
Jul 30th 2022, 10:20 pm
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Re: Home and garden projects

Tomatoes are ripening now, the nibbled or ones that go squishy in places get trimmed and frozen for chutney later in the autumn.
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Jul 21st 2022, 1:43 pm
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Sorry to hear about your cucumber loss Pulaski. I think we are just urban enough not to get too many deer, though last year I had one that came in regularly to eat my rose blooms and it did have a go...
Jul 18th 2022, 9:04 pm
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Re: Home and garden projects

Our hydroponic system is producing edible things now. So far I have only picked cucumbers and we had a green pepper that I knocked off the plant while mowing :( Aubergine/eggplant is on the menu for...
Nov 1st 2021, 8:23 pm
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Re: Home and garden projects

We are expecting frosts this week so I have just picked all the remaining produce from the hydroponics system and added all the stems, leaves etc to the compost heap.

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Jan 12th 2021, 9:45 pm
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Posted By lizzyq

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Why mess about? Just eat a whole proper packet yourself in one sitting - problem solved :rofl:
Nov 23rd 2020, 1:01 am
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Posted By lizzyq

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New seasonal quilted wall hanging for over the dining table:
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Sep 29th 2020, 3:08 pm
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Rodent control is covered:
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No nasty scorpions in PA.
Sep 28th 2020, 6:54 pm
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Posted By lizzyq

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All our heating is gas fuelled but this weekend was spent splitting wood for a friend and then some at home for our weekly socially distanced gatherings around our fire pit.

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Aug 18th 2020, 7:19 pm
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Posted By lizzyq

Re: Home and garden projects

They both look good - thank you!
Aug 18th 2020, 12:04 am
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I will be making this https://theviewfromgreatisland.com/super-easy-hot-pepper-jelly/ once I have ripe hot chillies. I put it into the jars hot, like jam, screw the lids down tight and wait to hear...
Aug 17th 2020, 8:52 pm
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Most of my recipe books are UK, but when I use US recipes with dry goods by volume I use the cup measurement the first time and note how much each ingredient weighed on the recipe, so essentially the...
Aug 17th 2020, 3:02 am
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Being born in the late 1960s I have always worked in both the Imperial and metric systems. All my school maths and science was metric, with the exception of cookery in home economics where the...
Aug 16th 2020, 7:45 pm
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Posted By lizzyq

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Today I picked tomatoes, a little under-ripe to beat the critters. A couple of days in the kitchen and they will be fully ripe, these are "brandy boy"...
Aug 14th 2020, 5:37 pm
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Posted By lizzyq

Re: Home and garden projects

They look good!

I am, as ever, fighting the wildlife for some of our produce, but today I picked peppers, tomatoes, cucumbers, a melon and some cucamelons/mouse melons/Mexican sour gherkins.
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Jul 14th 2020, 7:57 pm
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Posted By lizzyq

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Our outdoor hydroponics system is starting to be productive. We are growing cucumbers, melons, various peppers, aubergines, various basils and also tomatoes. Plants went in on memorial day weekend,...
May 18th 2020, 6:35 pm
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Posted By lizzyq

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Today I scored a couple of $25 dwarf buddleias for $5 each to go with the four $7 lavenders marked down to $1 apiece that I got a few days earlier. The frosty weather we had a week or so ago has...
May 17th 2020, 5:47 pm
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Posted By lizzyq

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Bed and hops rather than bet and hobs? Don't you just love autocorrect?
Jan 15th 2020, 2:36 pm
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Posted By lizzyq

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That sounds like an excellent set up, but I have to agree with Mrs P that electrical work in the midst of Christmas dinner preparation would have caused the release of a few choice words here too!
Aug 1st 2019, 4:22 pm
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Posted By lizzyq

Re: Home and garden projects

My hosta have flowered this year and most other plants have done well so far. My annuals/bedding plants are also giving me lots of showy blooms, particularly the impatiens. After last year's...
Jun 12th 2019, 6:32 pm
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Posted By lizzyq

Re: Home and garden projects

Nasty looking things. Steve and I got the hydroponic system populated with tomatoes, peppers, aubergines, cucumbers and melons last week, then I had to hightail it to the UK at short notice and left...
Jun 11th 2019, 5:48 pm
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Posted By lizzyq

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So your objections are aesthetic considerations rather than regarding the actual functionality of the extractor hood?
Apr 29th 2019, 5:20 pm
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Posted By lizzyq

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American switched circuits are weird but you are obviously an absolute angel for finding the "fault" and saving Mrs P from having to choose a new dishwasher....:nod:
Apr 25th 2019, 12:12 am
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Posted By lizzyq

Re: Home and garden projects

Wrong again 😁, Mars would also be covered in trees https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mars,_Pennsylvania
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