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  1. blacktabs
    Always believed brown and mountain hares and the irish hare were here long before the romans i know they brought rabbits always thought the hares came over during the ice age interestingly as well as hare remains i read about the oldest dog remains found in the uk they were of a whippet type 4000 bc at stonehenge atb.
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    If you had asked this question thirty years ago when the pits were on strike there would have been more than a fair few alrounders out there. We were brought up to believe a lurcher capable of most tasks ferreting and mouching from pups then onto the lamp and coursing as they grew up only thing we never bothered was fox as there was no profit in them.
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    Are you resting them before eating or just serving straight away ive found resting any meat helps loads. But if they are old birds chuck them in the slow cooker
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    Ayup bushy you going all up market on me mate lol Looks a great treat for the cost and those trout stockies look really well as does the pub garden atb mate
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    Nice one Trappa we always make jam with our straws too after the first flowering just them and cane sugar done in about twenty minutes they reckon its hard to get it to set i only rinse the strawbs and it sets great our lass has just done last years damsons that were still in the freezer and put them through a sieve this time no stones or peel seems better for it. Do you do pickles too mate atb
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    Could do with a bit more info was there not many potatoes on roots or were they there but small as its been really dry this year i gave mine all my saved up rain water and had a great crop second earlies are coming up now and there well too but weve got the rain now. I plant flowers mate nasturtions and marigolds to help with pests forget me nots for a bit of colour early on and gladds and lavender for our lass at home all easy to take seeds etc for next year atb.
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    Fair play lads great pics and posts imo love the wippets mate beats sitting in or playing ball during the summer months years back most folks worked right through on rabbit as most folks needed to for the cash all this sporting malarkey is ok but shushies do breed like mad atb.
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    Dont matter if its dry mate if youve plenty of muck in the ground id sooner it be dry than wet muck is only there to hold moisture
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    Youve hit the nail on the head chimp its new ground mate id be doubling the amount of manure on it for the first year then do a third of it each year sounds like little feed and nothing to hold moisture my lotty was the same when i took it on one year on it produced real well mate thats the beauty of gardening get your soil right and everythings much easier atb.
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    Got to agree the places do a grand job but agree also that i would never own a running dog that has been neutered i dont know any genuine hunters that would either so for that point alone i think they aught to have a different approach to folks maybe more than a visit to their premises to see how the pups will be looked after pity as the pups look the right sorts to make good workers but dont think they will be anywhere as good spayed or neutered. Wonder also how many of them get to go six mths and get done and what would they do if the new owner refused atb
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    Looking good trappa as always mate Im in the midlands had my first lot of peas and bean rows down two weeks back just took out my shallots and garlic took them home to dry safer than leaving them lying about atb.
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    Rabbit chasseur always goes down well at ours as well as white wine sauce or any cream sauce honey glazed roasted back is also good plenty to go at anything you can do with chicken i reckon would do for the old coney atb.
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    Never heard of that shushie dont suprise me though i know those that grow on silver birch are known as razor strop fungus from folks using them for the same purpose atb.
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    Ben mate get youself down to your local lotty ask if you can help out or maybe share a plot a lot of asociations will let folks that show they can grow jump the que on the waiting list. Its actually written in as law on ours though how they tell on sight wether youd be a good grower or not i dont know but i just got to know the lads and helped an old boy with his plot was only on the list three mths. A lot of folks take plots on and get to find out its not that easy we had four on ours this year and only one of them has stuck it out so keep ringng them up
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    Thought that myself gnipper but wouldnt describe it as vinegar tasting atb. Pignut flower[off the phone]
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    Hi Ben good post mate 32ft square will do for a start you could always look for more land later. Its late in the season now for planting so all you could do this year is probably clear it and get it ready for an early start next season. Before you start parting with cash for pots Ben get down your local recycling centre the lads there should get you as much pots trays etc as you will need they dont charge at ours for stuff like that. Dont buy there compost though its real low grade atb .
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    That would make them inbred father to daugter wouldnt it done this type of mating when i needed to replace a good old dog years ago pups were a bit hypo but no worse for it got what i wanted from the litter so it paid off but next line was a complete outcross so as not to get any faults atb.....
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    Ten years back i used to fish a gravel pit for weeks at a time cuckoos would come in the trees right where we fished saw plenty of displaying etc no mating though but they have a very varied amount of calls from croaking to laughing noises suprised me as id only heard them cuckoo and hiss before. My old mate had one in a cage in the kitchen for years nasty thing never did tame up atb.
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    Derbyduck if i showed you my blewie beds you would have to be blindfolded on the way there lol 50 pound is a bad morning but as i go alone most of the time i will drop you a pm mate good crack when the seasons in proper know what you mean about the bags of libbys mate never seen fields like there are in the derwent valley only once in wales where they held the psillocybin fair. Trappa good on you mate have you tried the smaller puffballs there out now i believe if not now maybe next rainfall we have a beach wood here thats full of them and amethysts decievers both easy to identify a
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    A good tip is getting your seeds and bulbs in for next year now as they are on offer everywhere at the moment this is the second year ive bought onion and shallott sets in at ten pence a bag from focus also got three packs of seeds for a quid at pound stretcher just keep an eye open as it saves a fortune just need keeping in a good old tin and kept dry for a year atb.
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    Todays catch lol
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    Cheers Derbyduck im in derbyshire mate gods little acre for sure especially so when it comes to the old fungi. Have you tried growing them at home every place ive lived ive managed to get a ring or two growing never thought about wetting them down to get them going till just now though. Mustard mate had my first libby in 75 before they became popular made a good living from them for a few years if you know where to look and what to gather there are better shrooms than libbys but harder to identify . Shrooms can be good money makers those top chefs pay top dollar for our wild delicac
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    You cant beat keeping busy im the same mate even got stuff growing on the council flower beds hate chucking spare seedlings away. Hes one tidy looking greyhound MRD looks in fine fettle atb.
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    Thats the trouble with garening always waiting lol Look forward to seeing it in full production MRD I see youve got a tidy lurcher too mate very simmillar stamp to mine cant beat having all ends covered atb
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    Todays ramble horse shrooms blewies and a couple of princes atb horse mushrooms Blewies Princes at the front get hunting Tiff i think they grow in the usa too
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