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Recall whining a bit about tons of beech leaves forming a pyramid outside the garden that has been thirty years a growing.Encouraged by urbs insisting this was a potential vegetable gold-mine I have started to use it in the flower-beds instead of landscaping bark which obvs. costs.Have been pleasantly surprised by the overall effect 
Artaxerxes
Look out, he's got a gnu!
Greenhouse world is completely nuts at the moment, I had a good look in Feb, phoned around even, and nothing doing unless you are up for spending 10 grand or something.
Lead time on standard greenhouses in the uk is about 30 weeks. 30 weeks! Not even joking. I think its lockdown mainly, all these brand new upstart greedy gardeners, like me.
i got this and i love it, it totally works but when it gets warm ventilation will be a problem.
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eta when i say it works, the shelves need reinforcing / planking to be functional as shelves. Apart from that its fine.
Need to be very careful with those ones because they'll blow away.
If I were to get one I'd look at concreting or weighing down base somehow.
(In completely disregarding the above I've built a cold frame and a mini green house out of pallette wood and pvc tarp... I did add underground struts to the bigger one to hold it down but it's been a year so those fuckers wil be rotten af)
wayward bob
i ate all your bees
Wolveryeti
Detty Pig
First purple sprouting broccoli of the season gathered with help from my capable assistant. Fecking lovely.
TopCat
Putin fanboy
Have you put it up yet?
My partner bought one and I could not be fucked to put it up till she started talking about getting someone in to do it.
TopCat
Putin fanboy
My beans of several types are coming out. I lurve their vivacity as they pop out, barely covered with compost.
I have now identified in my raised beds, neat rows of: Beetroot, leeks, carrots, spinach, French dwarf beans, some other beans, peas, and garlic.
I bought some proper seed potatoes the other day. The ones I had planted were just hairy spuds out of the vegetable tray. But the hairy spuds are coming up.
Going to thin some of the rows soon and pot up the spares.
The raised beds seem to drain and dry real quick. It’s a bit of a plumbing job to get a plumber water supply close for an irrigation system but it may need to be done.
The bindweed is coming out everywhere in the flower beds. I have got super concentrated glyphosate today to continue the campaign against it. It’s had a free reign for a few years so is endemic.
I have now identified in my raised beds, neat rows of: Beetroot, leeks, carrots, spinach, French dwarf beans, some other beans, peas, and garlic.
I bought some proper seed potatoes the other day. The ones I had planted were just hairy spuds out of the vegetable tray. But the hairy spuds are coming up.
Going to thin some of the rows soon and pot up the spares.
The raised beds seem to drain and dry real quick. It’s a bit of a plumbing job to get a plumber water supply close for an irrigation system but it may need to be done.
The bindweed is coming out everywhere in the flower beds. I have got super concentrated glyphosate today to continue the campaign against it. It’s had a free reign for a few years so is endemic.
davesgcr
Reading books
It has been too damned cold at night to plant even hardy spuds - but I did a shed load of bean seeds in pots yesterday , and am seriously running late really in overall planting and seeding. I have prepared some of the beds for later later planting. One
thing that has been useful is / was saving loads of fallen leaves in black bags which are now perfect for mulching and digging in. We really need some rain though.
bimble
floofy
You're not on mains water?None here, must be three weeks nodown to my last water butt plus emergency rusted oil drum. Been too dry for quite a few seeds I've put in. The BBC promised some for tomorrow - I may sue if it doesn't arrive
two sheds
Least noticed poster 2007
I am but on water meter, and don't like using tap water anyway if I can avoid it.
bimble
floofy
oh yep, i am glad to not have a water meter. Especially the night the hose sprayer thing popped off and made a small pond whilst i was sleeping
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bimble
floofy
I have a septic tank too! maybe i should think about water meters. Brain freezes over when looking at utilities though.
Calamity1971
If Mr Peanut says It's okay, then it is.
Rained through the night here and most of today. Actual puddles! Temp struggled to get to 9° today. Dahlias are back in the house as frost predicted this week.
Wolveryeti
Detty Pig
Consider it especially if you are in a water stressed area. The formula is that metered customers get charged for what they use and non metered pay the average for the residual usage. That means you are potentially risking cross-subsidising the mad heavy users.
two sheds
Least noticed poster 2007
for example users with a couple of kids
Wolveryeti
Detty Pig
Rained tonight in Oxford - am a happy man.
Anyone else noted benefits from this cold dry spell? Our roses have no chocolate spot at all, which is unprecedented for this time of year...
Anyone else noted benefits from this cold dry spell? Our roses have no chocolate spot at all, which is unprecedented for this time of year...
Wolveryeti
Detty Pig
Would have to be more than a couple IMO. Was more thinking people with swimming pools and extensive gardens with sprinklers etc.
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