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DAPPH
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We still on about gardening?
On Off wants to know if you'll be down the pub later .
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Off to make two, 1m diameter rolls, stacked one on top of the other. These don't need guy wires do they? It'll really get in the way of future clearing operations.
I'm also going to need an extended spout or tube for watering. They get a watering can of plain rain water per day. Once a week an Organics plant feed.
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Right then, take two, 3' diameter and about 8' high. Staked at the mo with half a dozen of those 6" steel tent pegs you get with cheap, pop up tents:
Watering can needs an extension. I'll get my lad to print an adapter so I can use the rose:
I'm a tad concerned about these stalks / runners I've had to thread through the mesh. I cut the cable ties & removed the two canes that were in the blue tub. I then very carefully fed the leaves and stalks through the mesh. They look a bit wilted. Should I "threadle" them some more/tie/encourage?
Given it a good feed anyway.
Must shift the incinerator to the centre of that wild bit which is destined to become the veg patch extension.
Watering can needs an extension. I'll get my lad to print an adapter so I can use the rose:
I'm a tad concerned about these stalks / runners I've had to thread through the mesh. I cut the cable ties & removed the two canes that were in the blue tub. I then very carefully fed the leaves and stalks through the mesh. They look a bit wilted. Should I "threadle" them some more/tie/encourage?
Given it a good feed anyway.
Must shift the incinerator to the centre of that wild bit which is destined to become the veg patch extension.
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Put a three or four inch water feed tube in the middle of the ring and have it poke out the mesh side , fill it with water twice a day with fertilizer if desired .
You can cable tie three or four equally spaced six foot long garden stakes to the outside of the rings for a lot of stability if needed . or do the same and use water filled drums as tie rope anchors on the poles . If you do this it's easy to run more cane through the rings from one side to the other side use the tights or pop socks tied to the crossovers to support heavy fruits . This is good for polytunnel honey dew melons etc too.
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They soon pick up after a rough handling if you water & feed them , be gentle with them and carefully put the tendrils round the wires as you wrap th plant stems round the rings /
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Won't that just become an haven for slugs, as in in the tube?
The end that goes in the tub should it exit into the soil or sit above it?
Ta.
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Recommendations please for a stainless steel digging fork and spade set please. I'm going to treat myself!
Kent & Stowe come up for around £50 the pair. The ash handles put me off, I think I'd rather composite.
Kent & Stowe come up for around £50 the pair. The ash handles put me off, I think I'd rather composite.
I've got a Wilkinson Sword stainless fork and spade, which have had some hammer over the years on the allotment (I think I broke the fork handle a few years ago but I've never managed to bend the tines which is normally the weak spot).
Their both really nice to use, well balanced and easy on the hand. Getting the fork out of the shed is like saying hello to a good friend.
Whatever you go with, wooden handles are far nicer on the hands. And if your soils really heavy then a border fork has a smaller head so it's easier to use on your back.
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I 'm sure they go acw at the tip , Brrrrrrr. just got rather damp checking , all 24 bean plants on the two tripods run up the poles acw , I think it is because they also grow in the evening and the dark and climb round acw for the very early morning sun during darkness
The squash plants seem to like to go anyway I put them through the meshes so long as they can anchor a new tendril on something close by.
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Sorry I didn't say put the lower end of the watering tube inside the tub so the top ticks out out the side of the ring , pop a few slug pellets down in to the tubes , slugs & snails don't like the dissolved result .
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Bulldog Tools made me a special set of long agricultural handled ladies border spade , a sugar beet gapping bladed hoe , a super lightweight garden rake and a reshaped traditional pitch fork with a central square bottom U in it to make a very light weight long handled four round tined fork . They did this for me back in 1982 I still have both fork & the spade. ..... blade is almost 1.5 inches shorter and well rounded at the corners / I lost my rake & hoe when some Richard Cranium just out of jail was given the allotment next door to mine in 1985 , the council cut the weeds down for him and in one of the hottest years for ages he set fire to the tinder dry hay ...... burning my allotment shed ( made entirely of tar pickled railway sleepers ) the rotovator ,the hoe & rake etc inside . as well as burnig a massive 15 x a15 x 7 foot high lasagne style compost heap of layers of veg matter, sawdust & shavings & 7yr old stable muck *& beddings out of the Vets yard
The tools were made out of a very high grade carbon steel . The tops of the shaft are an inch or more higher than my arm pit .. difficult to use initially but being one handed for several years I quickly learnt how to use them effectively.
I also have a Wilkinson stainless steel ladies border spade ( formerly an ancients aunts gardening stuff ) which got plastic worms in the plastic D handle after 30 years or more , that I've put on a a proper old style pitchfork shaft and another all steel ladies square tined border fork on another pitchfork shaft.
Both are a dam sight heavier than my originals , which have seen me dig out many many tons of foundations , trenches and acres of garden since I got them .
As they are long shafted tools it's always been the case of never use the tools as levers to pry out big stuff , dig round it and hand ball it out or use the Kango etc to bust things into much smaller pieces . The spade has also shovelled tons & tons of materials into the three mixers I've had over the years without mishap .
The ash shafts on all my tools get wiped with meths then given a thin wipe of boiled linseed oil every end of November ...they are never left out in the sun for long nor the rain if I can help it & they always get thoroughly cleaned and wiped with the linseed cloth after use
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Wood handles all the way and get rid of any varnish with a card scraper. You hands will thank you for it, I have a new rake that’s just about to get a seeing to after blisters on both hands
Stuff is growing like mad in our garden now, Courgettes are producing more than we can eat, Top tip pick the flowers & stuff with cheese & herbs, dip in batter & fry in olive oil, heavenly!
Chillis are coming along nicely with lots of jalapenos ready to eat.
Thyme, Oregano & Morocan mint were grown in troughs & have done really well, fresh herbs are lovely.
Best of all are the tomatoes, I grew Romainian Captain beefheart last year & they did ok, this year started them off in pots & moved them outside in late spring, up against the house in a south facing sun trap. They have gone berserk & are now 6ft high covered in huge tomatoes, biggest like cricket balls.
Tonight i did some Pico de gallo Mexican dip, tomes red onion, fresh coriander Jalapenos, garlic, salt & lime juice. Really moreish with Tortilla chips!
Going to pick blackberries tomorrow, they are huge everywhere.
Chillis are coming along nicely with lots of jalapenos ready to eat.
Thyme, Oregano & Morocan mint were grown in troughs & have done really well, fresh herbs are lovely.
Best of all are the tomatoes, I grew Romainian Captain beefheart last year & they did ok, this year started them off in pots & moved them outside in late spring, up against the house in a south facing sun trap. They have gone berserk & are now 6ft high covered in huge tomatoes, biggest like cricket balls.
Tonight i did some Pico de gallo Mexican dip, tomes red onion, fresh coriander Jalapenos, garlic, salt & lime juice. Really moreish with Tortilla chips!
Going to pick blackberries tomorrow, they are huge everywhere.
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Something cheery about a bed of Helianthus
