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Sorry to hear that Flo, not the sort of thing anyone wants let alone an active person like yourself. The only good ? thing is it happened when it did, and you should be fit and raring to go when the main sowing season starts. Assuming of course that you dug your allotments back in the autumn :iconbi...

Good job you put brackets in there Ina, or it would have read .....

ina wrote: ↑

Thu Jan 10, 2019 2:37 pm

the French Polish will do

Hello KoyDeli, nice to meet you.
Welcome to our little forum.

All the above, plus another tech method is a hot water system, something I've been meaning to do for ages, but not got "around to" yet even though I have all the parts. Solar panel heating, get an old radiator, paint it matt black, install it somewhere facing south at about 20°slant, pipe it up to a...

ina wrote: ↑

Tue Jan 08, 2019 10:47 am

They are based on ferric phosphate

Thanks Ina, I looked that up and it seems there are several garden centres here that stock it, so maybe one of my local ones does. I'll make a point of switching as soon as I find some.

Not that I'm missing cold weather, although many of my fruit trees could do with a cold snap, especially the troughs of strawberries that are destined to be forced. The temperatures down here have been a steady minimum of 10c - 11c night and day since the beginning of December and there's no change ...

I don't suppose they'll be banning the ones that have always been allowed for organic farming? Which ones are they Ina? The only ones I can get locally are the bog standard metaldehyde. I do use them sparingly when I plant out vulnerable seedlings in the tunnels. There is no way birds could get at ...

Definitely will reach for the baby shampoo as an alternative though they have to leave out nasty stuff by law. Yes totally agree about the nasty stuff. I use Johnsons Baby shampoo, guaranteed to be as "gentle as water" for new born babies. I was stuck on Head & Shoulders because I got dandruff 40 y...

I presume your home grown logs are young growth Yes. When I moved here I planted up shelter belts consisting of Oleria, Griselinia, Willow, Alder and Ash. These are now coppiced in sequence on a 2 yearly basis and provides enough logs and kindling for at least one winter's fuel. It hadn't occurred ...

As another ageing male with thinning hair on the top of my head, although more than enough elsewhere, I started to get scabs forming on my scalp. I believe that's fairly common in older men, but as I've never been old before I couldn't guarantee that as a fact. Anyway it got to the stage where they ...

I thought I might share what I've been doing for umpteen years. We have a wood burner heater in our sitting room and I light it with newspaper and kindling (we have 1 local newspaper every week that the postman delivers) We also have a continuous supply of home grown logs with a about 3 years worth ...

Well, I got my timing slightly wrong again. There will be ripe tomatoes for Christmas, but I thought I'd timed it so that they would start to ripen in about 2 weeks time. Probably a few more sunny days than other years messes up my timing, so I will probably never get them to ripen exactly on time. ...

Maybe your soil is quite acid, or alkaline? I think it might be more likely the water. Presumably the compost is commercial potting compost which would be pH neutral(ish) But Manchester water which apparently comes from the Lake District is probably on the acid side (soft) and is slowly leaching ou...

Flo wrote: ↑

Fri Nov 16, 2018 5:17 pm

Hah but have any of you come up with false teeth from the NHS dentist without plastic?

Do you foresee scavenging battle fields again Flo?
I have no idea what material they were fitted into though.

Weedo wrote: ↑

Wed Nov 14, 2018 10:04 pm

Hopeless at any household crafts (with you Odsox)

I found the best way is to get a wife, Weedo.
That was the best 30 shillings I ever spent (marriage licence)
That works out at 3p a year in new money or 7d in old ... so far.