How are the veggies coming along?

[AHPP]

I follow but ironing is impractical. The cable run would be 125m and I'm not dragging it back here.

[peds]

Understood. Just remember this discussion when your tape seals have turned into rain pockets at the end of season 1 and your tunnel flaps away in season 2.

A stitch in time saves nine. Generators, batteries, flame-heated irons... 

...back of a saucepan over a weber full of coals...

Use your imagination. 

[AHPP]

 

4 minutes ago, peds said:

rain pockets

I bloody hope the joints end up vertical!

[scbk]

2 hours ago, AHPP said:

 

Why does Charles Dowding (slightly annoying but seemingly competent internet gardener) roof his compost? What are the pros and cons?

I think someone like Charles Dowding is regularly adding large amounts of green material, which is full of moisture, so a roof works for him.

 

I had some old corrugated iron so I built a roofed compost area but it was far to dry, even with the holes in the tin. So I'm trying to run that down, and will use the building for something else.

 

New diy compost bins are timber & mesh panels that screw together into cubes, and they're position partially under large trees, so they get some shelter and some rain, will see how that goes.

[AHPP]

I think my stuff is nearly all brown: wood chip, wood shavings, hay/straw. Only generate very small amounts of kitchen waste. Could put some fresh nettles in for something to do.

[peds]

7 hours ago, AHPP said:

Only generate very small amounts of kitchen waste. Could put some fresh nettles in for something to do.

 

Nettles are great, yes, pure nitrogen. But get some comfrey plugs and plant them nearby too, fill as much space as you can. Harvest 2/3/4 times over the growing season, as the patches grow. Hugely useful green for compost heaps, rots down quicker than nettles, easier to harvest, mines nutrients from deeper, and provides a wider range of micronutrients. 

[MattyF]

Milled up some cedar and cypress for some new raised beds, the originals being 20 years old had disappeared and blended in to 20 years worth of mulched paths so scrapped it all off and replaced last weekend , beds are a nice height to sit on  and weed with out destroying knees now. 

[Peasgood]

12 hours ago, AHPP said:

Next thing to work out is how to overlap/join the plastic somewhere. It's coming in smaller sections.

Best of luck but I am expecting it to be nothing other than a complete disaster.

[peds]

5 minutes ago, MattyF said:

Milled up some cedar and cypress for some new raised beds, the originals being 20 years old had disappeared and blended in to 20 years worth of mulched paths so scrapped it all off and replaced last weekend , beds are a nice height to sit on  and weed with out destroying knees now. 

Looks class. Well jel.

 

2 minutes ago, Peasgood said:

Best of luck but I am expecting it to be nothing other than a complete disaster.

 

Hey. Hey. I want you to take that negative attitude, plant it in the ground, and grow some helpful suggestions with it instead. 

 

At least the tunnel will be well ventilated.

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Hey. Hey. I want you to take that negative attitude, plant it in the ground, and grow some helpful suggestions with it instead.