dove from above, i once was out in my garden lat one night and i heard a rustling coming from inside my out house.As quick as a flash i shot inside my house and grabbed my air rifle from inside the cupboard.I was sat outside and waited to see if it would come outside. sure enough it did,but it was'nt a rat as i thought it would be,but it turned iut that it was an hedge hog with four young,it had nested in a bail of hay that i had for the kides rabbit's.
Doe's any of you ladies have any nice recipe's for mint? all it has been used for so far is mojto's.I have load's of it as i grow it as an hedge around a stone circle with seating around it, with a nice warm fire basket for them cooler evenings.
Hi, Diddydoit4u, good jod you didn't shoot that hodgeheg, I would've shot you! Been trying to encourage them into my garden for ages, but no luck. Have only ever seen one live one since I moved up here 7 yrs ago. How does your mint do? I used to have lots of types, but kept in containers due to it's invasive rep. I make mint sauce and mint jelly with mine. The mint sauce is the easiest and quickest, and tastesmuch better than the bought stuff.
Mint leaves, young and picked early in day are best (loads, washed and dried)
Vinegar (I like to use white wine vinegar, as it doesn't drown the mint flavour like malt)
sugar to taste
Put mint and viginer in whizzer (liquidiser), then add a little sugar to taste. Then put into sterilized jars, label and done!
You could boil the vinegar and mint together if you want to keep it for long, but I have never tried this as I usually use it fresh. Thinking of trying it though, to have it for winter.
Diddy - years ago we had a very similar experience
and then when we moved here my daughter was sitting out in the garden one evening and heard a rustling and a snuffling in the undergrowth - she thought we had a prowler, but then saw the biggest hedgehog she'd ever seen. Two winters on and he and a couple of other slightly smaller hedgehogs are regular visitors - two of them hibernate in the garden - we have one bought hedgehog house and we've made a couple too which they seem to find acceptable
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
I was driving my hubby home from work from Kilburn, North Yorks last night. It's all very rural there, dirt tracks rather than tarmac roads most of the way back to the A19. I had my high beams on, and spotted a hedgehog crossing the road. I thought I was going to avoid it Hubby said I had. Daughter said I had. But I felt the impact, and the pffffft noise it made as it exploded under my wheel I felt aweful.....
I suppose so....... I did try hard to position the hedgehog between the wheels, rather than under them.
Few years ago, I had a phonecall while I was at work from my hubby. He said that our daughter had found a tiny hedgehog splashing about in a hole that I'd dug in the front garden and stupidly hadn't filled in. It couldn't escape Meg lifted him out and blow dried him, while hubby made him a nice warm bed.
I weighed him when I got home, he was far too small to survive Winter (must have been a 'late crop'). So he stayed with us until Spring We called him Sam. Last night reminded me of him. Wonder if he made it......
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dove from above, i once was out in my garden lat one night and i heard a rustling coming from inside my out house.As quick as a flash i shot inside my house and grabbed my air rifle from inside the cupboard.I was sat outside and waited to see if it would come outside. sure enough it did,but it was'nt a rat as i thought it would be,but it turned iut that it was an hedge hog with four young,it had nested in a bail of hay that i had for the kides rabbit's.
A very lucky hedge hog.
Dave
Hi............Dont shoot!!!!
Doe's any of you ladies have any nice recipe's for mint? all it has been used for so far is mojto's.I have load's of it as i grow it as an hedge around a stone circle with seating around it, with a nice warm fire basket for them cooler evenings.
Hi, Diddydoit4u, good jod you didn't shoot that hodgeheg, I would've shot you! Been trying to encourage them into my garden for ages, but no luck. Have only ever seen one live one since I moved up here 7 yrs ago. How does your mint do? I used to have lots of types, but kept in containers due to it's invasive rep. I make mint sauce and mint jelly with mine. The mint sauce is the easiest and quickest, and tastesmuch better than the bought stuff.
Mint leaves, young and picked early in day are best (loads, washed and dried)
Vinegar (I like to use white wine vinegar, as it doesn't drown the mint flavour like malt)
sugar to taste
Put mint and viginer in whizzer (liquidiser), then add a little sugar to taste. Then put into sterilized jars, label and done!
You could boil the vinegar and mint together if you want to keep it for long, but I have never tried this as I usually use it fresh. Thinking of trying it though, to have it for winter.
Hi, Fairygirl, where are you? I'm in Hollybush, about 5 miles from Ayr.
Diddy - years ago we had a very similar experience
and then when we moved here my daughter was sitting out in the garden one evening and heard a rustling and a snuffling in the undergrowth - she thought we had a prowler, but then saw the biggest hedgehog she'd ever seen. Two winters on and he and a couple of other slightly smaller hedgehogs are regular visitors - two of them hibernate in the garden - we have one bought hedgehog house and we've made a couple too which they seem to find acceptable
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
I was driving my hubby home from work from Kilburn, North Yorks last night. It's all very rural there, dirt tracks rather than tarmac roads most of the way back to the A19. I had my high beams on, and spotted a hedgehog crossing the road. I thought I was going to avoid it
Hubby said I had. Daughter said I had. But I felt the impact, and the pffffft noise it made as it exploded under my wheel 
I felt aweful.....
Oh dear
but it would've been even sadder if you'd crashed swerving to avoid it
((hug))
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
I suppose so....... I did try hard to position the hedgehog between the wheels, rather than under them.
Few years ago, I had a phonecall while I was at work from my hubby. He said that our daughter had found a tiny hedgehog splashing about in a hole that I'd dug in the front garden and stupidly hadn't filled in. It couldn't escape
Meg lifted him out and blow dried him, while hubby made him a nice warm bed.
I weighed him when I got home, he was far too small to survive Winter (must have been a 'late crop'). So he stayed with us until Spring
We called him Sam. Last night reminded me of him. Wonder if he made it......
Emma - I hope it wasn't the one you saved.....
Circle of life though.
Jeannie I live in Clarkston - about ten miles south of Glasgow. Always lived in this part of the world , more or less.
I live in west central Scotland - not where that photo is...