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55To Grow tomatoes
Grow tomatoes. I grow tomatoes from seed. It's Do you remember what you often used to say about the bland tomatoes you bought from the supermarket? Was it something like, 'These tomatoes are tasteless,' or 'Why don't tomatoes taste like they used to, years ago, these tomatoes are horrible,' or maybe, 'Why can't someone grow tomatoes with a good taste.' I know I used to say all of those things. There didn't seem to be a sweet, luscious tomato on the shelves. They were pale, hard and tasteless.
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67Small House
At one time, new houses in Britain were the smallest in Europe, and the reason? The lack of building regulations regarding living space at that time, according to experts. In Denmark, homes built to regulation had twice the floor space as the small houses that were built here. In Essex a company had built flats so small that they had only a 34 square metre floor area with a living room measuring three metres by 3.6 metres. In comparison, the average new home in France was 112 square metres.
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62Cracked wall cladding
My bungalow was built in 1926 and as far as I know it has never had the pebble - dash exterior renewed. We've lived here for 20 years after buying it when my friend who owned it died. He lived here for many more years than my family. This year I noticed that some cracks were appearing in the surface of the pebble-dash under my veranda windows. Tapping the surface with a hammer revealed that some of the cladding was hollow-sounding, so there was only one thing for it: take off some of the loos
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66How to build a Rose Arbour
How to build a rose arbour-When our rotten rose arbour collapsed I knew I would have to build a new one, but did I know how to build a rose arbour? No, so I looked at photographs in magazines and chose a simple square design. I bought 4inch by 3inch treated timber for the uprights and 4 by 2...
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