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Web Version  |  Update preferences  |  Unsubscribe Like Tweet Forward TABLE OF CONTENTS • Dealing with a Marmalade Glut • Home Farmer Forum News • Make this three-tier planter • Heritage Seeds Update • Terry Walton's Tips on Growing your Pots in Pots. • Lambing Warning for Pregnant Women • Win Tickets to The Edible Garden Show Our current issue... To view the contents panel click here. To buy this issue click here. To subscribe by Direct Debit and get a FREE foraging book worth £16.99 click here. To subscribe for 12 issues click here. SUBSCRIBE TODAY AND GET THE DIGITAL EDITION OF HOME FARMER FREE FOR 12 MONTHS quote ref e-news7/1 A Special Offer from Gro Char We've teamed up with Carbon Gold to get you this great offer: Buy 20kg of Gro Char Soil Improver and 20kg of Gro Char Fertiliser and get aFREE 60 litres of Gro Char All Purpose Compost worth £14.99, and all with FREE delivery.Go towww.carbongold.com for more details of the offer, and use the promo code EGS-2 at the check out. For more information check out Best Start for Seeds. In Next Months Issue... and our Sixth Birthday Edition! We're working on next month's birthday issue, celebrating six years of Home Farmer. It will feature beans and corn alongside features in the polytunnel, on the plot and foraging in the wild, together with a feature on converting plants into cash. We also have a special piece on felting and an update on our Modest Designs house from Dave Hamilton, together with livestock and loads of recipes. And to get you out of the house this summer there's our extensive 2014 Show Guide too, including lots of fun and food events. To subscribe by Direct Debit and get a FREE foraging book worth £!6.99 click here. To subscribe for 12 issues click here. Dealing with a Marmalade Glut Mel Sellings, winner of the 2013 Gold Gong for her Seville Orange Marmalade at the World's Original Marmalade Awards, provides us with some recipes to use up an excess of the deliciously sticky orange stuff. She's given us the following 3 fab recipes, so go ahead and enjoy a real treat cortesy of the 'Jammy Bodger'. Making Sticky Marmalade Pudding Nutty Orange FlapJack Millionaire's Shortbread with a Twist Home Farmer Forum News After 4 years away our Home Farmer Forum was opened 2 days ago. It's early days and needs your imput to get it going so please join up and have your say. click here Make this three-tier planter If towns have shot up skywards, then so too can our gardens. Make this superb planter for under £30. Click here for the plans. Heritage Seeds Update We wrote last summer about proposals which could have made most heritage seeds illegal by introducing a requirement for testing and maintaining registration - a prohibitive cost for all but the biggest producers. There's some good news but we must remain wary. For an update click here. Terry Walton's Tips on Growing your Pots in Pots. Straight from the allotment comes Radio 2's allotment guru, Terry Walton, to share his best tips for growing your potatoes in containers. To find out more click here. Lambing Warning for Pregnant Women Defra and the Department of Health have issued an important warning for pregnant women who may be present or on site during lambing, calving and/or kidding. Both potential mothers and unborn children could be at risk from infections, and not just during the birthing process: if washing clothes used during the birthing or dealing with newborn livestock, the risks will still be present. For up-to-date advice on avoiding (and dealing with) infection click here. Win Tickets to The Edible Garden Show We've teamed up with the folks at The Edible Garden Show to offer 5 pairs of free tickets asa special giveaway. To enter you just need to name the venue for the 2014 show and email the details to ruth@homefarmer.co.uk together with your name and address. Please head your email EDIBLE GARDEN SHOW. Winners will be picked and notified on Monday. Click here to visit The Edible Garden Show website.