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"  I have used various garden plants and weeds as foraged ingredients"

Oh so many of these plants contain agents that are mutagenic and/or carcenogenic and caution in their use would be prudent.  Little testing has been done on humans.

" If you are interested in the durability of ground contact wood"

If you can get it,  Robinia pseudoacacia, commonly known as black locust, makes the best ground contact wood. It is considered an invasive species in some areas.

NoMowMay... Naturalized Nymph in lawn.... [color=rgb(var(--color-foreground))]Herbertia lahue ssp. lahue?[/color]

Arisaema reference books...  Himalayan Cobra-Lilies (Arisaema) Their Botany And Culture by Udai C. Pradhan 

Quote from: Martin Bohnet on January 24, 2023, 01:13:29 PMwinter starts running out of time

Meanwhile in the UK:  https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2023/01/23/national-grid-scheme-will-do-reward-heavy-energy-users/

"Temperatures have plummeted again, Britain is becalmed by an anticyclone, and the National Grid is warning that supply is going to be tight this evening. Coal plants are being dusted down several months after they were supposed to have closed, and the National Grid is activating what it calls its Demand Flexibility Service. This means customers signed up to the scheme can earn up to £6 per kilowatt-hour saved if they agree to turn off their appliances between 5 and 6pm.
It is not hard to spot a slight issue with this offer: the more electricity you use on a normal Monday, the easier it will be for you to cash in today. As with so many green subsidies, it perversely rewards the well-off at the expense of the poor. "

Quote from: Bern on January 06, 2023, 01:24:01 PMother dogs that they use to control their rodent problems? 

My daughter's Ibizan (a blazingly fast sighthound) keeps her yard and veggie garden free from rabbits and our Australian terrier would often catch and dispatch garter snakes and chipmunks in the CT rock gardens. The giant schnauzers prefer to hunt two-legged rodents.

We kept a couple of male mini-lops in the small CT greenhouse one brutal winter and the ammonia buildup was problematic and required extra ventilation. I'd guess it was a zero-sum game.

Quote from: CG100 on December 22, 2022, 12:09:18 AMGold is everywhere in electronics

Worked for a firm that made and installed semiconductor processing equipment at the old Fairchild/National/TI fab in Danbury CT back in the 1970s and early 1980s (long gone). One of our coworkers always volunteered to work late at night and early in the morning.  He was arrested for going into the gold vacuum sputtering room and collecting gold from the machinery and cleanroom surfaces.

 "glitter with little practical use"

A small amount of gold is used in almost every sophisticated electronic device and is widely used in the aerospace and glass and medical industries.

Quote from: Judy Glattstein on December 20, 2022, 11:47:18 AM"at appropriate temperature before it drops even more at night."  We keep the greenhouse here "frost free"... AKA... thermostat at 35F/1C. Tropicals spend the winter in the house... disasters have occured.

setting its thermostat so it just comes on at the appropriate temperature before it drops even more at night. T

David... We use propane gas to heat the greenhouse. The last delivery worked out to $.11 USD per KWH and factoring in the heater efficiency, $.13 USD or about 10.7 pence sterling per KWH.

QUANGO... fascinating term/acronym, new to me. Thanks. Here in the USA, they swarm mostly in the Washington DC swamp.

David, what does a KWH cost in Blackpool? Here in Northeast North Carolina USA, it is about 9.5 pence sterling or $0.12 US dollar.

As: https://www.amazon.com/WRIGHTS-Hickory-Liquid-Smoke-3-5/dp/B00BHNV8N2

Has anyone tried a liquid smoke treatment?  Related: https://www.mdpi.com/1422-0067/23/20/12468