3: Gardening Diaries ...

[alp]

Good morning: If you don't want weed, best is line it with kingspan or thick polystyrene board, like the hot tub composter. The turnover is fast as well and the high temperature sterilise the compost. And the stuff really looks like compost. I have several heaps of the composted and in-composted materials at the back. I need either to burn it or chuck it. It just doesn't look like compost.

Yes, you must have airflow, but to be able to rotate the dalek helps aerate the materials inside and increase the surface area for faster composting.

BigC: Clever man like you can make both - hot tub and conventional.

 

[BigC]

Good Morning all, (@Logan is always the first downstairs lol) looks like it's shaping up to be another beautiful day..Off to the GC soon
Hmmm.."Kingspan" now there's an idea...1" Kingspan liner....nice one @alp I'll look into that..but first lets get her built and finished. (@MaryMary I will drill some ventilation holes and cover on the inside with fine mesh). A small note on dimensions for anyone who is interested in these things, the unit measures roughly 24" x 24" x 42", its not overly massive and obtrusive in my small garden...This season will be used as a trial and if all works out to the good then I might consider building another or something larger.

6:00 a.m. and she finally gets her first coat of sealant, just as the sun was comming up

 

[alp]

Good Morning all, (@Logan is always the first downstairs lol) looks like it's shaping up to be another beautiful day..Off to the GC soon
Hmmm.."Kingspan" now there's an idea...1" Kingspan liner....nice one @alp I'll look into that..but first lets get her built and finished. (@MaryMary I will drill some ventilation holes and cover on the inside with fine mesh). A small note on dimensions for anyone who are interested in these things, the unit measures roughly 24" x 24" x 42", its not overly massive and obtrusive in my small garden...This season will be used as a trial and if all works out to the good then I might consider building another or something larger.

6:00 a.m. and she finally gets her first coat of sealant, just as the sun was comming up

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Truly a man of action - remember to treat your flower with the same love and care as well!

 

[BigC]

Truly a man of action - remember to treat your flower with the same love and care as well!

I will buy her a nice new bicycle pump to try and re-inflate her purse after this mornings visit to the GC

 

[alp]

Who's talking about money/ Action man!? Don't digress. Love that colour of the unit. Would love to see how it rotate. Make sure inside is not treated. Wonder how it works. But you must know how to figure it out.

Went out to the garden to pick snails and slugs .. Already an iris bud has been damaged. Blast the SS!

 

[Logan]

@BigC looking good. Yes always down first, had to take one of the quilts off and no hot water bottle these last 2 nights.

Going to keiths this afternoon, do some more cards. Got this idea how to disigned one.

 

[BigC]

Went out to the garden to pick snails and slugs .

Dont mention these terrestrial molluscs, they are the bane of my gardening life...I was on a job in Jersey recently and went to a restaurant and I had Snails as my starter...first time ever..I thought what the heck, why not...BigC 1, Snail population 0 ..and you know what..they actually tasted quite nice hahahahaha...

Thanks @Logan ..dont forget to post your cards so we can all see them..It must be Summer guys if Logan's Hot Water Bottle is being discarded hahahaha

 

[alp]

I have never used hot water bottle in bed.

 

[alp]

Dont mention these terrestrial molluscs, they are the bane of my gardening life...I was on a job in Jersey recently and went to a restaurant and I had Snails as my starter...first time ever..I thought what the heck, why not...BigC 1, Snail population 0 ..and you know what..they actually tasted quite nice hahahahaha....

Come and consume all mine. You can have slugs as a side dish!

 

[BigC]

Come and consume all mine. You can have slugs as a side dish!

Not on your Nelly @alp not unless they were cooked by some kind of Michelin chef or something..besides I've enough here to keep me going ...SQUISH... hahahaha

 

[BigC]

I have never used hot water bottle in bed.

You dont know what your missing mine has a lovely Tartan overcoat hahahaha

 

[Upsy Daisy]

I have never used hot water bottle in bed.

I do occasionally if a particular joint is very painful, helps me drop off to sleep quicker.

We rarely even change to our winter quilt, keep to our 4tog one. We only put our bedroom heating on once this winter too, hate a stuffy bedroom....like to keep windows open ajar

 

[BigC]

.like to keep windows open ajar

Oh you'd love our house The War Department or Flower as @alp terms her, leaves the bloody windows open even in the dead of Winter

 

[Upsy Daisy]

You dont know what your missing mine has a lovely Tartan overcoat hahahaha

guess what my cover is............Daisies!!

 

[Upsy Daisy]

Oh you'd love our house The War Department or Flower as @alp terms her, leaves the bloody windows open even in the dead of Winter

Lovely......I think!!!!