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I t struck me the other day when someone was talking about saving tomato seed, that the fact that the seed needs to ferment to germinate is not something I knew as a beginner. You scrape out all the soft inside of the tomato and let it get fizzy before you wash out the seeds and dry them. There must be a ton of such info and tips for a beginner, and it's nice not to learn by your mistakes.
I made a start putting up the runner bean bamboos the other day. The first time I did that they fell over in the wind, there is a lot of windage on the plants when they are grown. Don't just go for neat and square, add some diagonals taking into account the direction of the prevailing wind so they will be driven into the ground, not pulled up.
The other thing, after that first failure I wired the bamboos firmly together, and fiddled about undoing it at the end of the season. Get the design right and you can use jute or hemp string and just strip the whole lot off straight into the compost in Autumn.
So, what do you know? The simple stuff that seems like second nature may be news to someone else.
I made a start putting up the runner bean bamboos the other day. The first time I did that they fell over in the wind, there is a lot of windage on the plants when they are grown. Don't just go for neat and square, add some diagonals taking into account the direction of the prevailing wind so they will be driven into the ground, not pulled up.
The other thing, after that first failure I wired the bamboos firmly together, and fiddled about undoing it at the end of the season. Get the design right and you can use jute or hemp string and just strip the whole lot off straight into the compost in Autumn.
So, what do you know? The simple stuff that seems like second nature may be news to someone else.