keitha
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Post by keitha on Sept 16, 2023 13:34:43 GMT
Special Edition tonight
does tomato Sauce ( ketchup ) go in the fridge, and what about EGGS fridge or worktop
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warn
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Post by warn on Sept 16, 2023 15:11:46 GMT
Special Edition tonight does tomato Sauce ( ketchup ) go in the fridge, and what about EGGS fridge or worktop Ketchup in the larder, eggs in the fridge. Women tell me. P.S. Just in case: 
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Post by travolta on Sept 16, 2023 15:35:14 GMT
Plastic dustbin, hole in btm and a few tiger worms will solve all your green waste . You won't be able to keep up with them and have to pass handfuls onto neighbours ...or let them loose in the wide world.
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Post by wildlife2 on Sept 16, 2023 18:31:39 GMT
Do zoos provide the tiger worms? Eggs in larder.
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Post by travolta on Sept 16, 2023 19:37:07 GMT
wigglywigglers.co.uk.
but considering how quickly they multiply you could message me and I'll send you some for free.
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Post by bernythedolt on Sept 16, 2023 21:27:17 GMT
Plastic dustbin, hole in btm and a few tiger worms will solve all your green waste . You won't be able to keep up with them and have to pass handfuls onto neighbours ...or let them loose in the wide world. 1. Do you feed yours fresh grass clippings successfully, or do you have to let them go yellow or beyond first? I just read a snippet saying they don't like green clippings. Is that your experience? I must research further, but, if you don't mind, some further dumb questions from a gardening muppet with zero experience, so please be gentle :- 2. What's the purpose of the hole in the base of the dustbin? Won't the worms burrow out and disappear? 3. Dustbin standing on bricks, lawn, earth or concrete base, or doesn't matter? 4. Do you seal the top of the dustbin with a lid or leave it open to the elements? 5. Mildly interested in this solution, which I assume is a form of composting, but how do you get the compost out to place on the roses without bringing out handfuls of worms with it? Or do you have to carefully pick the worms out? I don't want to be replacing one small inconvenience (leaving clippings out for paid collection) with a bigger one (faffing about with a worm farm, if it is a faff, with piles of green clippings waiting to moulder also taking up valuable space - our garden isn't huge). 6. In winter, with no grass clippings, is there enough normal food waste to sustain the colony? 7. Finally, does the bin smell? We have neighbours to consider. TIA
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ozboy
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Post by ozboy on Sept 17, 2023 12:21:14 GMT
Special Edition tonight does tomato Sauce ( ketchup ) go in the fridge, and what about EGGS fridge or worktop Ketchup in the larder, eggs in the fridge. Women tell me. P.S. Just in case: Confusing innit? I have often read elsewhere that eggs are best kept at room temperature. Apparently their coldness, if kept in the fridge, can affect the results of your cooking. Sounds highly specialist/pedantic to me, but, tbh, I know fornication all about cooking. Let alone where to store my eggs.
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Post by bernythedolt on Sept 17, 2023 12:37:14 GMT
Ketchup in the larder, eggs in the fridge. Women tell me. P.S. Just in case: Confusing innit? I have often read elsewhere that eggs are best kept at room temperature. Apparently their coldness, if kept in the fridge, can affect the results of your cooking. Sounds highly specialist/pedantic to me, but, tbh, I know fornication all about cooking. Let alone where to store my eggs. Same here, but SWMBO says ketchup in cupboard, eggs in fridge. Works for me. I could either start WW3 or keep schtum about the results of her cooking... 
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Post by adrianc on Sept 17, 2023 12:38:38 GMT
Ketchup in bin.
Eggs in omelette (add a good sprinkle of harissa).
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Post by bernythedolt on Sept 17, 2023 12:44:39 GMT
Philistine!
Might try the harissa though, sounds interesting. I do enjoy Encona or Tabasco with an omelette, so...
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Post by adrianc on Sept 17, 2023 12:48:03 GMT
No, that's those who can't eat without smothering what little flavour their food has under red goop. Seriously, do. I should have clarified - into the eggs, not onto the omelette. Standard omelette mix round here is to beat the eggs with a good grind of black pepper, pinch of salt, good pinch of harissa (spice mix, not paste), and some finely chopped spring onions in. Not just a little stir-about with the fork, but quite enthusiastically just before they go into the pan, helps keep them really fluffy.
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Post by Greenwood2 on Sept 17, 2023 15:16:01 GMT
Open ketchup in fridge, eggs in fridge may not be necessary but seems safer. I remember the days of bad eggs.
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Post by badersleg on Sept 17, 2023 16:08:51 GMT
Plastic dustbin, hole in btm and a few tiger worms will solve all your green waste . You won't be able to keep up with them and have to pass handfuls onto neighbours ...or let them loose in the wide world. 1. Do you feed yours fresh grass clippings successfully, or do you have to let them go yellow or beyond first? I just read a snippet saying they don't like green clippings. Is that your experience? I must research further, but, if you don't mind, some further dumb questions from a gardening muppet with zero experience, so please be gentle :- 2. What's the purpose of the hole in the base of the dustbin? Won't the worms burrow out and disappear? 3. Dustbin standing on bricks, lawn, earth or concrete base, or doesn't matter? 4. Do you seal the top of the dustbin with a lid or leave it open to the elements? 5. Mildly interested in this solution, which I assume is a form of composting, but how do you get the compost out to place on the roses without bringing out handfuls of worms with it? Or do you have to carefully pick the worms out? I don't want to be replacing one small inconvenience (leaving clippings out for paid collection) with a bigger one (faffing about with a worm farm, if it is a faff, with piles of green clippings waiting to moulder also taking up valuable space - our garden isn't huge). 6. In winter, with no grass clippings, is there enough normal food waste to sustain the colony? 7. Finally, does the bin smell? We have neighbours to consider. TIA I'm not an expert- but I've run a dalek style compost bin in the past and currently have a wormery and a large compost heap made from pallets. The secret is to get a good mixture of green (grass clippings, food waste) and brown (cardboard, manure) and to turn it every so often to get some oxygen in.
1. I've always chucked my clippings straight on the pile, but put some torn up cardboard or shredded paper in there too before the next lot of clippings go in. A big pile of grass will just go slimy, especially in a dalek style composter. 2. The worms and other creatures won't escape and the hole lets any excess liquid out. 3. Earth or lawn.
4. Leave the lid on to keep the heat in to help the bacteria do it's thing. If you can get hold of some manure chuck that in as well.
5. I've found that the worms don't eat the waste quick enough in a wormery and I still need a compost heap. 6. Worms slow down over winter so don't eat as much. 7. If your bin starts to smell it probably means that there's too much wet greens in it. Add some newspaper or card.
Try to chop up any waste as small as possible to increase the surface area. The bins with a hatch in the bottom are quite good for a small gardens. The compost forms at the bottom of the pile, the worms live in that and drag the stuff from above down and eat that. If you open the hatch you can scoop the good looking compost out.
There might be a subsidised composter here (depending on where you live) - getcomposting.com
Tim
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Post by wildlife2 on Sept 17, 2023 17:20:26 GMT
wigglywigglers.co.uk. but considering how quickly they multiply you could message me and I'll send you some for free. Thankyou for the kind offer, but I'll make do without the wiggly tiggerly wiggling things for now...
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Post by Ace on Sept 17, 2023 17:44:41 GMT
Plastic dustbin, hole in btm and a few tiger worms will solve all your green waste . You won't be able to keep up with them and have to pass handfuls onto neighbours ...or let them loose in the wide world. 1. Do you feed yours fresh grass clippings successfully, or do you have to let them go yellow or beyond first? I just read a snippet saying they don't like green clippings. Is that your experience? I must research further, but, if you don't mind, some further dumb questions from a gardening muppet with zero experience, so please be gentle :- 2. What's the purpose of the hole in the base of the dustbin? Won't the worms burrow out and disappear? 3. Dustbin standing on bricks, lawn, earth or concrete base, or doesn't matter? 4. Do you seal the top of the dustbin with a lid or leave it open to the elements? 5. Mildly interested in this solution, which I assume is a form of composting, but how do you get the compost out to place on the roses without bringing out handfuls of worms with it? Or do you have to carefully pick the worms out? I don't want to be replacing one small inconvenience (leaving clippings out for paid collection) with a bigger one (faffing about with a worm farm, if it is a faff, with piles of green clippings waiting to moulder also taking up valuable space - our garden isn't huge). 6. In winter, with no grass clippings, is there enough normal food waste to sustain the colony? 7. Finally, does the bin smell? We have neighbours to consider. TIA I've had a wormary for the past 25 years. It's not a substitute for a compost heap. You can only add small amounts at a time. Best used in combination with a compost heap. Here's a useful guide: www.rhs.org.uk/soil-composts-mulches/worm-composting1. I don't add grass clippings to mine. You couldn't add in large amounts of grass at one time as it would raise the temperature too high. 2. A hole in the bottom would be to let excess liquid drain out. Most wormaries have a tap at the bottom to drain off excess liquid, which can be used to feed plants. I use this to feed my tomatoes, chili's etc and to feed flower baskets and tubs. I alternate between the worm juice (diluted 10 to 1 with water) and commercial veg feed (e.g. tomorite). The worms don't escape if you keep the conditions to their liking. 3. Best to stand on bricks if creating your own to allow a container to be placed beneath to catch the worm juice (plant feed). 4. It needs a lid. Worms hate light. And you need to keep pests out, e.g. birds would soon learn that it was a great place to find worms to eat without a lid. 5. See article linked above. It's fiddly to seperate the worms if your container has a single layer. Most commercial bins have several layers with many holes in to allow the worms to move between them. Mine has 3 layers. The worms will mostly be in the top layer where the new food is added. When the top layer is full, I remove the bottom layer empty the compost then place it back on top and start adding new food to the new top layer. There will be worms in the extracted compost, but that's no bad thing. They breed fast in the bin once it's established. 6. The worms' appetite slows considerably in winter. I still add kitchen peelings, teabags, cardboard, apple cores etc, but at a far lower rate. The extra goes in my compost bin. 7. There's usually no odour from the wormary. Mine did get unpleasantly smelly when I tried adding more food than they could cope with. Removing some to the compost bin and leaving it alone for a couple of weeks cured it.
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