Do you have a secret trick?

YoungBlueEyes

2 more brilliant ideas  

So if (when) I fail at being a gardener, I can make lovely yoghurt instead. Himself will be pleased cos he loves yoghurt! 

MissRikkiC

gettingthrifty said:

Hi brie
Glad you liked the idea. ! 
If they are darleks can you ' lift' them up see whats under and use the soil/ compost as your 'brown' for the method i use?? If not could you take some out of the bottom little bit at a time until empty? If you dont want them then donate to local allotment??
I have one ( from pre back surgery) never knew the idea was to lift them and reposition to fill ! Now i just tip my leaves in every year. Leaves alone without being shredded take a long time to compost down. My cat goes in the door at the bottom to sleep !
Thanks for spelling  didnt want to loose my post doing a search mid way

Have I understood correctly that rather than scooping from the top of the compost bin, or using the car flap you instead lift it up and move it to start again (and then use the compost) If so, I am quite honestly flabbergasted that I hadn’t realised this before and quite frankly royally peed off that I’ve been firking through the flap since last year 😂😂😂

MissRikkiC

Thanks @Novice_investor101 I eat tonnes of yogurt and hadn’t thought to do this! 

CarolWHerts

I now use a strip of masking tape and a sharpie type pen to label and date all those bags and boxes of leftovers or surplus on their way into the freezer. Just pulls off afterwards. Admittedly you lose some element of surprise in your cooking (soup or stewed rhubarb?).

Wednesday2000

CarolWHerts said:

I now use a strip of masking tape and a sharpie type pen to label and date all those bags and boxes of leftovers or surplus on their way into the freezer. Just pulls off afterwards. Admittedly you lose some element of surprise in your cooking (soup or stewed rhubarb?).

I was thinking other other day about whether you can buy labels for frozen food, but that is a good idea. I have tape and pens downstairs. I opened up something in foil from the freezer the other day and I genuinely couldn't think what it was!

RobM99

YoungBlueEyes said:

Aspirin, aye I’ve heard that one but never tried it. 

I use aspirins as a face mask - crush up a couple and add a wee splash of water so it’s a thick paste and slather it on clean skin. Leave it a good long while if you can. It won’t take 10 years off you, it just makes you look like you’ve a few nights of good sleep 😊

I knew someone who used something to make her look 10 years younger. Problem was, she was only 9!

gettingthrifty

MissRikkiC said:

gettingthrifty said:

Hi brie
Glad you liked the idea. ! 
If they are darleks can you ' lift' them up see whats under and use the soil/ compost as your 'brown' for the method i use?? If not could you take some out of the bottom little bit at a time until empty? If you dont want them then donate to local allotment??
I have one ( from pre back surgery) never knew the idea was to lift them and reposition to fill ! Now i just tip my leaves in every year. Leaves alone without being shredded take a long time to compost down. My cat goes in the door at the bottom to sleep !
Thanks for spelling  didnt want to loose my post doing a search mid way

Have I understood correctly that rather than scooping from the top of the compost bin, or using the car flap you instead lift it up and move it to start again (and then use the compost) If so, I am quite honestly flabbergasted that I hadn’t realised this before and quite frankly royally peed off that I’ve been firking through the flap since last year 😂😂😂

You and me both
My friend has a plot on an allottment. I asked her why their darleks had no cat flap. She said by the time they had filled the last one (they had a row of them) the first was composted down and they just lifted, moved it and started again. Brie i think suggested the darleks were there when they moved in, so maybe get away with doing this as the compost may be ready My darlek only ever has leaves in which take forever to compost down if not shredded when they go in. Worth having a ponder if it makes life easier?

Katiehound

^^^
I used to have a dalek- no door so hard to get the compost out. However it took several years to  make the stuff because it got no sunlight so once emptied it was given away!
 Many years later I still find compost with smashed egg shell and the little oval labels which were stuck on apples- those things never wasted away!!

Katiehound

Wednesday2000 said:

CarolWHerts said:

I now use a strip of masking tape and a sharpie type pen to label and date all those bags and boxes of leftovers or surplus on their way into the freezer. Just pulls off afterwards. Admittedly you lose some element of surprise in your cooking (soup or stewed rhubarb?).

  whether you can buy labels for frozen food, but that is a good idea.  

You used to get such things in packs of different colours- came as a freebie with Home Freezer Digest!! I think Lakeland used to stock them, probably when they were starting out & a company called Thorpac

Brie

Why buy special labels from Lakeland when masking tape or even normal office labels would do the trick?  And I've actually found that most decent weight plastic bags (the washable zip lock ones from ikea etc) can simply be written on with a pen.  Might want to look for the ones that have the white label painted on them for ease.