Becks , I save what I cook it in too.... I cook chicken in half inch water ? Ish basting etc , remove chicken when cooked, cover tin with foil and allow to cool, I then remove any fat and stock jelly left underneath which I then jug and put in fridge for soups, sauces, casseroles, bolog sauces whatever .... Then I boil the bones too
Tropical moments is what my SIL called going hot and cold. I did it for years , but not any more
When i got home from GC there was a little parcel and in it were 5 begonia corms - Apricot Beauty' had forgotten they were coming , one of these free things tagged onto an order I think. So they are now nicely snuggled up in compost in the window with all the others
Also bought some Galtonia bulbs. Any one grown them?? I really like the flower there were loads growing at the Olympic park last year
Hi Andy! I can't pass a poundshop incase there's a garden bargain I might miss! Have had some great results with the bulbs I bought there last autumn and so far the seeds are looking good too
Hi Caz just like you can't pass the shop without having a look i bought some tulips and they are out and look amazing if i knew how to upload photos i would put them on here for you to see them.
The hillbilly cloche effort that doesn't fit is the top I hacksawed off a 4 shelf plastic greenhouse and half-heartedly lashed some sort of covering to. BTW, the rest of the shelving's outside next to my proper gh, and very useful it is too!
And this is the second...no., I haven't half filled it with dust, underneath that layer of riddled wood ash/home compost and leafmould is double dug manure and garden soil. The tools are there in a vain effort to dissuade the neighbour's cats from thinking it's the largest litter tray they've ever seen. The mirror is one Bloke and I plonked there to try and reflect some more light into that space, which gets quite shaded in the sumer when the beech trees in the next door garden come into leaf. I thought it would be a good place for brassicas - psb, kale, maybe brussel sprouts - which can grow on during the summer then get full light as the leaves drop.
And I found half a dumpy bag of leaf mould/topsoil up my back passage which Bloke dug up when I sacrificed a rather unsuccessful bed for the log store, so should be able to fill all 3 beds with goodies...FREE!!!!! Still have the dug up plants (clumps of snowdrops, hellebores, sarcoccus, vinca minor) heeled into dumpy bag of leaf mould which I'll plonk into the shady border when I've got the energy.
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Tropical moments is what my SIL called going hot and cold. I did it for years
, but not any more
When i got home from GC
there was a little parcel and in it were 5 begonia corms - Apricot Beauty' had forgotten they were coming , one of these free things tagged onto an order I think. So they are now nicely snuggled up in compost in the window with all the others
Also bought some Galtonia bulbs. Any one grown them?? I really like the flower there were loads growing at the Olympic park last year
I do try to limit myself Andy, but sometimes I fail miserably.
And end up with crap I didn't even want/need! 
I just cook my chicken in a little oil Bunny. I will save the juices though.
Hi Andy! I can't pass a poundshop incase there's a garden bargain I might miss! Have had some great results with the bulbs I bought there last autumn and so far the seeds are looking good too
Hey Bunny want some Lucifer?
Hi Caz just like you can't pass the shop without having a look i bought some tulips and they are out and look amazing if i knew how to upload photos i would put them on here for you to see them.
Right off to take muppsy dog , brrrr back soon frozen solid
You on a PC or iPad Andy?
Ok, got 2 of the raised beds in...
The hillbilly cloche effort that doesn't fit is the top I hacksawed off a 4 shelf plastic greenhouse and half-heartedly lashed some sort of covering to. BTW, the rest of the shelving's outside next to my proper gh, and very useful it is too!
And this is the second...no., I haven't half filled it with dust, underneath that layer of riddled wood ash/home compost and leafmould is double dug manure and garden soil. The tools are there in a vain effort to dissuade the neighbour's cats from thinking it's the largest litter tray they've ever seen. The mirror is one Bloke and I plonked there to try and reflect some more light into that space, which gets quite shaded in the sumer when the beech trees in the next door garden come into leaf. I thought it would be a good place for brassicas - psb, kale, maybe brussel sprouts - which can grow on during the summer then get full light as the leaves drop.
And I found half a dumpy bag of leaf mould/topsoil up my back passage which Bloke dug up when I sacrificed a rather unsuccessful bed for the log store, so should be able to fill all 3 beds with goodies...FREE!!!!! Still have the dug up plants (clumps of snowdrops, hellebores, sarcoccus, vinca minor) heeled into dumpy bag of leaf mould which I'll plonk into the shady border when I've got the energy.