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Leafster
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I was going to repair the shed that was in my garden when I moved in. But when I looked more closely at it there was more rotten wood than good. All the uprights were rotten and most of the floor. In the end I gave it a decent Viking send off minus the floating on water bit.Heavy metal shed
I'd have thought you could repair shed if the supports aren't rotten, and even if they are you could probably bolt wooden bits onto them at the bottom.
I have a metal shed too which I moved to the old wooden shed's location after its demise. I have a heat pad and grow lamp in it to germinate seeds and I had this great plan a couple of weeks ago to control these via wifi. The only problem is, it's a metal shed and the wifi signal won't penetrate it!
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Least noticed poster 2007
Antenna outside the shed? Or use the shed as an antenna?
I've been really lucky - wooden shed been standing for 20 years since I've been here, now has nice corrugated steel roof and still seems good condition although I must wood treat it again this summer.
I've been really lucky - wooden shed been standing for 20 years since I've been here, now has nice corrugated steel roof and still seems good condition although I must wood treat it again this summer.
They don't like having their roots disturbed iirc. I might keep them indoors another day or two if you can after that, to keep them from the double shock of thinning out + colder temps all at once. Generally though being out in the cold (within reason) will encourage them to develop better root systems rather than loads of soft leafy growth like they will indoors in the warm.Just spent ages thinning out sweet peas into a little pot each and then googled afterwards and it said don’t do that
Most of them are going to have to go out now in the mini greenhouse, i have no more window sill and it might help them be strong ?
TopCat
Putin fanboy
It was such a lovely sunny day today. I was out in the garden wondering what to do this morning. Hoed some beds then it was all go, the sun shining bright.
Mowed and strimmed the lawn. First cut of the year. Looked a bit lumpy but ok for now.
Moved the gazebo and turned an old picnic bench into a pile of timber that may get made into a planter.
I bought a new picnic bench, much bigger and more sturdy than your average one. That’s under the gazebo now and has provided an outdoor workshop space.
I have been slowly but surely trying to reveal the original Victorian paths, steps and brick flowerbeds. Years of moss and green sludge has been beaten back with a reconditioned Karcher pressure washer and a Lidl yard broom.
There are Hebee plants (sp?) that had got too big with gnarled stems intertwined and which stretched a third of the garden and pushed right out over the path, breaking the flowerbed brick edge work.
My good pal succeeded in cutting one back with a small saw a while back. It looked like really hard work though. I thought “sod that”.
So I bought a chainsaw a week or so ago thinking of heavy hedge trimming. Today I got it out. It had been a decade since I used a chainsaw. Less than a hundred quid this was. The quality is really good compared to the cheap ones I used in the past.
So safety kit on and off we go. It was really effective. I trimmed and shaped and chopped the waste. Great fun.
The clearing up has been done and it is all good.
Mowed and strimmed the lawn. First cut of the year. Looked a bit lumpy but ok for now.
Moved the gazebo and turned an old picnic bench into a pile of timber that may get made into a planter.
I bought a new picnic bench, much bigger and more sturdy than your average one. That’s under the gazebo now and has provided an outdoor workshop space.
I have been slowly but surely trying to reveal the original Victorian paths, steps and brick flowerbeds. Years of moss and green sludge has been beaten back with a reconditioned Karcher pressure washer and a Lidl yard broom.
There are Hebee plants (sp?) that had got too big with gnarled stems intertwined and which stretched a third of the garden and pushed right out over the path, breaking the flowerbed brick edge work.
My good pal succeeded in cutting one back with a small saw a while back. It looked like really hard work though. I thought “sod that”.
So I bought a chainsaw a week or so ago thinking of heavy hedge trimming. Today I got it out. It had been a decade since I used a chainsaw. Less than a hundred quid this was. The quality is really good compared to the cheap ones I used in the past.
So safety kit on and off we go. It was really effective. I trimmed and shaped and chopped the waste. Great fun.
The clearing up has been done and it is all good.
Leafster
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When I finally cleared the top two terraces of my then new garden of brambles and nettles I got work digging them over only to find that about 10cm to 15cm down it was paved. The garden had been neglected for so long that the leaf litter had built up over the years and composted itself and formed a deep layer of soil that all the brambles and nettles were growing in OVER the paving slabs!
Artaxerxes
Look out, he's got a gnu!
It's remarkable how little plants need, I've got stuff growing in top of the allotment tarp and the other day I found a seed sprouting in the mini greenhouse after it got put in the windowsill, no soil but it was giving it a solid go.
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Least noticed poster 2007
Hebe
My garden is like this atm.
Allotment shed base mostly done today, just need to properly level it out with a bit more sand and stick the gravel grids on top. Need to crack on with clearing the garden now and set up a planning meeting with housing association staff about the garden group I'm somehow going to be running once lockdown rules allow.
TopCat
Putin fanboy
That’s what I had.
TopCat
Putin fanboy
I re pegged the gazebo down yesterday. Big April winds on their way.
I can hardly use my arms after wielding the chainsaw yesterday.
Sill loads to do. My aim is to have it all planted and neat before family come post COVID and have a bite to eat.
Sort of, yeah. Some seeds have one cotyledon (seed leaf) - "monocots" - and some have two - "dicots". Got a vague feeling conifers might be slightly different though I could be wrong and I'm sure there's a few other oddities.
There's some cool pictures of the insides of seeds pre & during germination in a textbook I can post when I'm home in a bit.
TopCat
Putin fanboy
Don’t mention ferns.
Ooh yeah ferns are
They're totally different though since they don't produce seeds at all.
TopCat
Putin fanboy
Badgers poo them out at night.Spores! Yeah I looked them up the other day.
Also ‘where do bulbs even come from’
Magic. No amount of science can convince me it isn't magic.Spores! Yeah I looked them up the other day.
Also ‘where do bulbs even come from’
Can't find the really cool seed pics so I think I must've seen them somewhere else but here's the inside of a little bean seed tadpole before it germinates
Stolons as well! I have trays of compost all over my bathroom for ferns to propagate themselves intoSpores! Yeah I looked them up the other day.
Also ‘where do bulbs even come from’
two sheds
Least noticed poster 2007
I don't think he does
TopCat
Putin fanboy
I got a lot done yesterday. Stripped very established ivy off the apple tree. Raked over the exposed beds where I recently chainsawed the Hebe’s back.
Went to Lidl for gardening tat. Sowed six seed trays with stuff. Soaked some bare stock fruit bushes in water. Will plant these shortly.
Going to take a big strip of turf off right across the lawn. Will then sow a bucket of meadow flower seeds.
Scaffold board delivery did not show up for the second time. Got to find someone else.
Went to Lidl for gardening tat. Sowed six seed trays with stuff. Soaked some bare stock fruit bushes in water. Will plant these shortly.
Going to take a big strip of turf off right across the lawn. Will then sow a bucket of meadow flower seeds.
Scaffold board delivery did not show up for the second time. Got to find someone else.
TopCat
Putin fanboy
You can hear his squeals when they are breech.I don't think he does
TopCat
Putin fanboy
My back hurts and I feel I may have over reached.
I got fucked about by the scaffold boards guy. Two missed delivery attempts is enough.
I decided to buy pressure treated gravel boards and pressure treated fence post to make the walls and junctions of my raised beds.
All good. They are from a local (Brockley) firm and will come next week.
My pal looked at my design and rightly pointed out the beds would be too wide even for my extra long arms to weed and plant.
So I’m looking at thinner beds. Now am wondering whether to have three going widthways across the garden each slightly terraced or square boxes or something else. I can’t decide.
The compost kept getting cancelled and the latest bloke has a two for one offer. So two massive bulk bags to empty then barrow through straight into the waiting raised beds that have not been designed yet let alone built.
I wish my back did not ache!
I got fucked about by the scaffold boards guy. Two missed delivery attempts is enough.
I decided to buy pressure treated gravel boards and pressure treated fence post to make the walls and junctions of my raised beds.
All good. They are from a local (Brockley) firm and will come next week.
My pal looked at my design and rightly pointed out the beds would be too wide even for my extra long arms to weed and plant.
So I’m looking at thinner beds. Now am wondering whether to have three going widthways across the garden each slightly terraced or square boxes or something else. I can’t decide.
The compost kept getting cancelled and the latest bloke has a two for one offer. So two massive bulk bags to empty then barrow through straight into the waiting raised beds that have not been designed yet let alone built.
I wish my back did not ache!
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