Jill Dyer

Could be a good candidate for basketry if it's really flexible.  I really like those "knuckles"

A dear friend, since passed on to the felting workshop in the sky passed on this tip for felting projects gone wrong - use as a liner for a hanging basket - so you are on the right track. Wool holds at least 20% by weight of water without feeling damp - magic stuff.
Perhaps line an empty tin with the fleece, add growing medium, and then when the time is right plant out, fleece and all.  Recycle tins or re-use afterwards.  Bargain!
While I was off getting lunch - How about 2 tins - one about 1 inch smaller diameter.  Remove bottom and top from the smaller one.  Put fleece in the bottom of the larger, put the smaller tin inside and fill up the side spaces - a chop stick makes a good ram.  then fill the smaller container with growing medium, remove smaller tin and presto! ready to plant.   Perhaps I need a chocolate fix?
Edit to add:- chocolate works!  the same approach would work with a couple of plant pots with less effort.

This is really interesting to know - I have great difficulty getting the offsets to grow new roots and establish.  Maybe something to do with a very dry climate and insufficient hand watering.  I can give this method a try next time.
My favourite thing for rhubarb is chutney.  

Just found:  sprinkle with baking soda, rub in slightly, then add vinegar and let it fizz.  No idea if this will work, but worth a try.
The sap is a mixture of latex and "Other things" and it seems it's the other stuff that makes the stain.  Heat sets the stains. . .
Best of luck.  But I do like the hoof print interpretation.  A unicorn must leave some traces or why would we still be looking for them?

Yes,  a purchase in a job lot at a farm clearing sale.  It sits on the bench in the man cave (aka the Shed) I have no idea what it has been used for, for that reason.  It's safer to give the shed a wide berth 🤣🤣🤣

Looks like you've waited a while for replies, Rob.  Have you moved or made any progress with a cabin?  If not, there's this helpful post just in:-
https://permies.com/t/150619/Short-simple-highly-sufficient-instructions

(Then again, what do I know? I use square knots when sewing on buttons. )

said Douglas Alpenstock. . .
Nothing at all wrong with a square knot and a button - it makes a better job than all those shoddy efforts produced by lazy manufacturers!

I was so inspired by this thought that I added "elbow" pasta to the chili I made for dinner.  Usually I make rice as a go with, but the pasta was definitely better!  Grated cheese on top, and a side salad of lettuce tomato and avocado.  Proportion 250g minced beef to 1/2 cup of the dried  pasta.
Now I'm thinking chili lasagne might be the next great thing 🤔😏
Edit to add:  straight Mac'n Cheese is made "adult" by the addition of chili to taste ( I add just a teaspoonful of mild chili paste)

I can't grow Phaseolus coccineus either!  It turns out that wind and hot weather dry out the pollen - so no beans can develop  [aka scarlet runner beans?]   Bush beans grow perfectly well, so there must be something to it, 🤔  since the bush beans are more sheltered between other plants.
Drying out of pollen also affects the tomato plants. . .

So, vigilance is the key.  I've been using 2kg yogurt buckets set up as a water well - stones at the bottom about 3 cm, small drainage hole at the side level with the top of the stones, a piece of shadecloth then the soil.  Works most of the time, if I forget occasionally to water - which I do,  enough water to drip out of the drainage hole.
Garlic chives at the moment, and had great success at getting roots to form on rhubarb transplants.  Once again, the buckets can be recycled.