How are the veggies coming along?

[AHPP]

1 hour ago, sime42 said:

Might get a tad boring like.

 

I’m currently eating somewhere around my seventieth bowl of pheasant curry since 1st October. You don’t know you’re born. 

[AHPP]

 

 

I’m digging it once to get it level and then I’m going to woodchip it for the full no-dig schtick. I now need to switch business tactics to convincing clients that they don’t want woodchip cluttering up their gardens and that I can take it away for a very reasonable price. 

Edited April 5 by AHPP

[Mick Dempsey]

New “raised” beds.
Slightly smaller area. 
Took the sheets off, added granulated manure, and rotovated. 
Pommes de terre planted today. 

[AHPP]

Bed timbers presumably not made by your own fair hand. Still looking for a mill?

[Mick Dempsey]

1 minute ago, AHPP said:

Bed timbers presumably not made by your own fair hand. Still looking for a mill?

Not any more. 
That lot cost only €200.  
I just don’t know how anyone can make money milling when the local Brico Leclerc is selling treated timber at that price. 

[doobin]

3 hours ago, Mick Dempsey said:

Not any more. 
That lot cost only €200.  
I just don’t know how anyone can make money milling when the local Brico Leclerc is selling treated timber at that price. 

Doesn’t look much timber there for 200. You’d be surprised how quickly you can make that amount of boards with a bandsaw mill and some leylanddi saved from a job. 

[peds]

20 minutes ago, doobin said:

Doesn’t look much timber there for 200. You’d be surprised how quickly you can make that amount of boards with a bandsaw mill and some leylanddi saved from a job. 

 

How many years would you get out of an untreated leylandii 2x4 or 2x6 do you think? 

 

Edit:

Best raised beds I've found are spruce offcuts from the pile at the forestry gate. 5 years in now, still going strong!

Edited April 5 by peds

[AHPP]

What doobin said. I'd rather use €20 of fuel and cutting edge and turn tree surgery waste into something usable. Plus it's on demand. Bully for you if €200 isn't a lot of money but it would be to me, especially when it's 10% of a sawmill. 108 more timbers and you've then got a free sawmill. If you have the space to store something like that, always get it.

Edited April 5 by AHPP

[AHPP]

10 minutes ago, peds said:

 

How many years would you get out of an untreated leylandii 2x4 or 2x6 do you think? 

 

 

Hang on, Envirofag®. What do you want to know about chemical timber treatment for?

EDIT: You don't. That makes more sense. Apologies. Namaste.

Edited April 5 by AHPP

[peds]

9 minutes ago, AHPP said:

Namaste.

 

Don't worry comrade, it's been a long week.