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Can I grow mushrooms using dowels on leylandii stumps?

I have felled 2 leylandii and want to rot the stumps/trunks organically, and have read that growing mushrooms on tree stumps speeds the process up - but can mushrooms grow on this type of wood or does...
19:50 Sun 21st Nov 20104 answers, last by painterman32 12:10 Mon 29th Nov 2010
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Teenage love song lyrics

I need some ideas of names of current love songs for a play I'm writing - they need to be current and something a 17 year old male character would know, romantic is good, but whatever anyone can...
17:46 Sun 30th Nov 2008
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1980's film with Rugby and Sheep!

I'm trying to find a film that was broadcast, I think on Channel 4 in late 80's? It featured 2 brothers on a sheep farm, both played rugby I think, and the father had a heart attack and the...
20:58 Wed 23rd Jul 20083 answers, last by legend758 01:34 Thu 24th Jul 2008
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Magpies vs. Crows

Why do crows continually harass magpies? There are a pair of magpies in an adjacent garden trying to nest, but one crow keeps visiting and attacking them and this can go on for hours at a time. I...
21:56 Thu 24th May 20073 answers, last by tiny e.a 14:29 Fri 25th May 2007
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Jerusalem Artichokes

Do Jerusalem Artichokes need to be earthed up like potatoes? I'm growing them for the first time this year and not sure if I should just leave them or treat them like potatoes - the leaf shoots are...
21:40 Mon 14th May 20071 answer, last by jake-the-peg 08:31 Wed 16th May 2007
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Snails

Can snails survive after their shell has been broken? I have sometimes stood on one in the garden by mistake, with that sickening crunch - should I finish them off mercifully quickly or is there a...
21:26 Tue 24th Apr 20073 answers, last by spudqueen 13:55 Wed 25th Apr 2007
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Pruning fruit trees

When is the best time of year to prune an old apple tree? I have been given conflicting advice - told NOT to do in the autumn/winter as the extra wood protects the buds from frost, told NOT to do it...
22:47 Thu 21st Dec 20064 answers, last by RATTER15 23:01 Fri 29th Dec 2006
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Water Butt and iron drainpipes...

My Victorian house has the original iron drainpipes - can I use a water butt and attach anything to them to catch the rain water?
21:38 Thu 04th May 20061 answer, last by WendyS 13:22 Fri 05th May 2006
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Trying to find Rugby/Sheep film?

Can anyone point me to a film I remember shown on C4 probably sometime in the mid 1980's about 2 brothers, think both played rugby, and having to take over a sheep farm when their father gets...
00:08 Sat 15th Apr 20062 answers, last by sherlockian 20:34 Sat 15th Apr 2006

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