5. If you get mailed letters don't just recycle the envelopes. Re-use them first for shopping lists or notes to remind you of something. THEN pop them in your paper recycling.
If you get mailed letters don't just recycle the envelopes. Re-use them first for shopping lists or notes to remind you of something. THEN pop them in your paper recycling.
6. Keeping spring onions even for just 2 days in the fridge makes them wilt like in this photo. If you think on they are not kept in the fridge in the greengrocers, just in the cool ambient temperature. To keep them fresher for longer, trim them as soon as you buy them.
Keeping spring onions even for just 2 days in the fridge makes them wilt like in this photo.
To keep them fresher for longer, trim them as soon as you buy them.
7. regrow cress after you've cut it. Put it on a sunny window ledge with enough water each day to dampen the material, and the seeds that hadn't sprouted before will grow.
Regrow cress after you've cut it. Put it on a sunny window ledge with enough water each day to dampen the material, and the seeds that hadn't sprouted before will grow.
8. Use old trampoline sides to protect blackcurrants and other fruit bushes on your allotment. If your trampoline broke but the netting sides were still good, it's big enough net holes to let in pollinators, but keep out hungry birds.
Use old trampoline sides to protect blackcurrants and other fruit bushes on your allotment. If your trampoline broke but the netting sides were still good, it's big enough net holes to let in pollinators, but keep out hungry birds.
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