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:: If you are just learning the craft of herb gardening, you may encounter a couple of challenges. However, they are very minor (and actually fun challenges), so don’t let this deter you!

You will need to learn how to prepare your soil and decide which of the many wonderful herbs you want to grow. Selecting the herbs that you want in your garden is the ‘fun’ challenge that I mentioned earlier.

Some of the herbs recommended for beginners are chives, parsley, summer savory, dill, sweet basil, tarragon, thyme, sweet marjoram, rosemary and sage. Read the rest of this entry »

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Mulliner Bentley Continental GT Widely acclaimed for its crisp, sculpted design, the new Bentley Continental GT is poised to create a further stir with the new Mulliner Styling Specification, a range of Bentley-designed styling options reaffirming its potent road presence.

The new Mulliner Styling Specification’s Classic Pack features a unique front bumper splitter, strakes integrated into the front intake grilles, side extension blades and a rear diffuser, all made from high-gloss, black carbon-fibre. Read the rest of this entry »

Despite having a multitude of supercar wannabes in the production pipeline, Lotus’s latest model is very much a throwback to the ‘less-is-more’ ethos.

The Elise Club Racer is aimed at customers who prefer track days to Saint-Tropez, and deletes a number of flabby extras like noise insulation, the radio, central locking and even the roof in the name of performance.

The new car weighs in at almost 25kg less than the standard Elise and adds a ‘sport’ mode to the chassis management system, which permits a greater loss of traction before pulling you back from the brink. Read the rest of this entry »

There’s love at first sight, and then sometimes it can take a second. With this diesel

, it was the latter, since that’s the amount of time required to overcome the lag of the twin-turbo setup and for the big ute to go from a standstill to full-bore acceleration.

But the turbo lag we mention might be more specifically described as big -turbo lag. Unlike the equal-size twin turbos on BMW’s gas six- and eight-cylinder engines, the inline-six diesel—a newly available engine option for 2009—uses two differently sized turbos in an attempt to minimize lag. The smaller turbo spools up first, when exhaust flow is minimal, and the larger one takes over once exhaust flow is sufficient to spin it. Read the rest of this entry »