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deeper soil in green house, also making it easier to water, less leakage everywere

jenko

jampot wrote:yes jenko its ok! vines won't look alive for a while yet , im down here in hampsire and all mine a re looking like dead twigs give it till may... and then worry a bit

do you know what type they are btw?

im not to sure, ilan sent me them, and apparently they are a mix.
thanx

jenko

yeah thanks very much, im glad im not doing anything wrong
i think living on top of a hill on the pennines, in derbyshire, so they probably wont come up for quite a while
thanks

jenko

having done all my cuttings frrom last year, and aquiring some grape vine cuttings, all my others have started growing, and my grape vines havent
are they later than current bushes, and rosehips, or have i done something wrong??

jenko

you can put a plastic sheet down first, adding gravel, then several inches of soil, if like i do, suffer from moles, coles, and mice

hi everyone, i know i keep posting about parts, keep writing on the off chance someone may have a scrap fordson in there field/hedrow/barn etc. if anyone has one, or a friend of a freind has one, please could you pm me, as i need several items off a doner tractor. having scoured ebay, and being unsu...

thats a good idea, bet that saves alot of money

jenko

Ok, I have a section of my land (the corner of the plot) which slopes down very sharply. It's pretty much useless, it can't be made into a rockery as the slope faces away from the land & house. So my thoughts were to build a dry stone retaining wall up (approx 6') and then backfill so that i ca...

yh lol, ive also made a handcart out of completly recyled stuff to, all from skips
and yh i will when i see her next
hows you anyway?

jenko

erm i aint took a picture yet, but will put one on a.s.a.p.
my mother ses she wants it now to put her seeds in.

jenko

In january this year, it was time for me to begin making my GCSE technology project, and I decided to make a chest of drawers. Being the tight person i am, i decided to create it out of as many free materials as i could get, this helped as my dad and grandad have a large woodworkshop, so therfore, i...

Well, just as an update to this, we now have a lovely warm house and have used coming on for half the heating oil we used a couple of winters ago about about 40 litres a week. I think that's probably still too much but it's a good start. any improvement is a good improvement, more heat the better i...

Biscombe wrote:Here we go

http://www.aatoys.co.uk/toys/productdet ... egoryID=25

There was a plan for how to make it somewhere...................

that looks rarther good, bet it took some making, by whoever made it

jenko

In our local farm merchants you can buy wellies that lace up so you can adjust them to fit your calf quite comfortably, but I haven't got a clue what they cost - note to self to have a look next time i am in there! thats were i got my 'muck boots' from, a farmers merchant, they are ace, and i manag...

Intrigued on two fronts now: 1) What do you do with conkers to make them good for the skin? (rub them vigorously on a bruise? :lol:). In what situations would you use them? 2) How do they disturb spiders - i.e. what do you do with them, and (if anyone knows), by what mechanism does this work. Oh, s...