On Jan 16, 11:25*am, Martin wrote:
On Fri, 16 Jan 2009 03:11:35 -0800 (PST), Judith in France



wrote:
On Jan 15, 11:05*pm, Martin wrote:
On Thu, 15 Jan 2009 22:48:02 +0000, Sacha wrote:
On 15/1/09 22:36, in article ,
"Martin" wrote:

On Thu, 15 Jan 2009 18:16:22 +0000, Sacha wrote:

On 15/1/09 17:39, in article
, "Judith
in France" wrote:

On Jan 15, 2:45*pm, Sacha wrote:
We have a nice little piece in Feb's Country Living 'In the garden' page.
We didn't know anything about it until a friend emailed me last night, so
it
was a lovely surprise in the cold and wet of winter! *On the same page is a
new plant to me Hacquetia epipactis which apparently likes shade.. *It's
lime
green with a yellow centre and looks idea for a darkish corner.

--
Sachahttp://www.hillhousenursery.com
South Devon
(new website online)

I went online to take a look and I can't find this month's
edition!!!!!!!!!

Any chance of cutting and pasting it??????????????????

I'll scan it in and email it to you.

Me too, please.

Okay. *All I have to do is remember to bring it upstairs from
downstairs....... *;-))

and put it in the scanner face down

Did you watch Victorian Farm? They showed how to store mangold worzels in a
clamp in winter. You can do the same thing with potatoes and other root
vegetables. AFAIR the straw was covered with a *layer of earth.

http://www.aardappelpagina.nl/explor...orageclamp.htm
--

Martin

I watched that last night, it was fascinating, but what hard work!!!
In Norfolk, where I used to live, it was a common practice to store
root veggies, i.e. carrots in this way.

Sacha kindly sent me the scanned item. *Ray and the Nursery seem
pretty famous, did you see him on t.v. when he as talking to Angela
whatshername?

In the 1940s, we had a *wash house attached to our cottage and similar things in
it to those shown on the programme I think she exaggerated how hard and how long
the washing took. Central to the whole process was a coal/wood fired copper
boiler which I think the programme omitted to mention
Certainly my mother didn't devote most of her waking hours to washing clothes
and the dolly/peggy stick didn't need enormous strength to operate, my brother
and I used to take turns with it. I don't believe any woman in her right mind
spent winter evenings in an unheated bedroom doing embroidery by oil lamp..

All the farm machinery they have shown so far was still in use in 1940s post war
England, except a tractor was used to drive the threshing machine.
--

Martin

Martin, is this a series of programmes?

Judith