General Chat

Have a field full of it next door and every field for miles around seems jam packed with the stuff this year.

It's really affected my sinus's and I just wondered if anyone on here knows traditionally when it will be harvested so I can get my nose and throat back lol x

Hi Muffy,

try this link

http://www.tracingpaper.org.uk/2007/08/03/harvesting-rapeseed-black-seeds-for-golden-oil/

I'm not sure that it may help but I googled 'rapeseed harvesting' and this one came up. It is a UK site so may give an accurate seasonal schedule

Regards

Allan

Thanks Allan.

I'll take a look..x

Oh gawd...late August....ages yet lol. x

you'd better get a yashmak or a burkha - this'll probably be reported now for racism!!! everything else seems to be getting reported today!!

Muffy,

You only need a yashmak if it is yashing down :-)

Muffy.

Depends when it was sown.
I have a field at the back of me with Rapeseeds, but it has already gone brown,so I expect it will be harvested earlier than some.

Apparently the Bees don't like it either !! LOL They have been reduced in numbers due to the pesticides used ...

I love the smell of it :-D...... but don't suffer sinus.

Just carry on with yer Smog mask !

You could try getting some local honey, from bees that have been collecting from the flowers. It may help & nothing lost by trying this old tip re hay fever.

The flowers are still bright yellow so I'm definitely stuck with it for a while yet...I hate the smell and everything....Youngest and OH unaffected by it..but myself and eldest are really suffering.

Thanks for the tips ...I'll give anything a go....maybe not the yashmak though lol x

OMG Joy has been rr'd for suggesting vaseline up the nose to catch the pollen???????? What on earth is wrong with that????????

Don't worry muffy, they'll only be in flower a couple more weeks, it's the pollen from the flowers. They're left to go to seed, as that's where the oil comes from, and left to dry out till August. It's a spring flower so it's season is nearly over.

I cannot believe someone RR'd for suggesting vaseline, but I can guess who it is.....someone in whose twisted drug befuddled mind read that as medical advice. It's not you silly Moo!

It's been deleted?

I just don't understand this at all !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Well that just goes to show that some GR staff simply cannot be bothered to read the posts being reported and just delete them willy nilly. Probably with a roll of the eyes and a yawn.

Or maybe they are suffering from hayfever :-D :-D :-D

http://www.bbc.co.uk/health/physical_health/conditions/in_depth/allergies/allergicconditions_hayfever.shtml

Saline douches or a little Vaseline applied inside the nose will reduce symptoms

......not dangerous advice and Joy didn't mention dosage.

I'm truly gobsmacked. :-S

I'm not surprised though, just the sort of thing a certain person does, and has admitted doing. It's because it's us, anyone else could have said exactly the same thing and not had it RR'd.

So to the RR-er, you know who you are, I know who you are, sort yourself out love, you're doing exactly what you have accused us of doing. Stalking and bullying. Time to get a hobby eh?

http://www.nhsdirect.wales.nhs.uk/encyclopaedia/h/article/hayfever/

Rub a small amount of Vaseline inside your lower nostrils. This can help prevent pollen from entering your nasal passages.

NHS DIRECT no less lol x

Ridiculous.....its gone Bl@@DY mad on here this morning & afternoon !! :-S

What ever is it that makes folks trigger happy with that RR......

Spite Marilyn, nothing else.

Only makes them look bad though, so it's more funny than annoying.

Rather than a Yashmak,I,ve heard that 7 Veils do the trick, :-D Apparently whilst dancing with them on and reducing the number (In front of your OH.) you,re so busy and destracted you forget all about Hay Fever. :-D :-D :-D :-D ;-)

Hmmmm, except you can' tbreathe while you're dancing and you keep having to stop to sneeze, and you can't see where your OH is because your eyes are itching and streaming.

Nice try Merlin, bit of wishful thinking on your part methinks :-D :-D :-D :-D :-D :-P