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stitching_witch

I always grow 'Vivaldi' potaotes as my second earlies as they have the most amazing flavour and are reputed to be low in calories too. A win win situation

Rummer

stitching_witch wrote: »

I always grow 'Vivaldi' potaotes as my second earlies as they have the most amazing flavour and are reputed to be low in calories too. A win win situation

Ooooh now that does sound good!

To be honest I know very little about potatoes as we have always just bought a random bag and thrown them in however it would be good this year to have a steadier supply. Think I might order the Alan Romans book/leaflet, has anyone read it?

rhiwfield

lostinrates wrote: »

well.....decided not to sit totally bone idle today after all and got a couple of the long posts for our trees painted.

Now, please tell me I'm not mad.......we want the pears to grow eventually to about 10 feet (and they are on quince c...um, well, which ever is the appropriate root stock for that ) so..our posts sould be that long too, right? The right height for the eventual top support wire? We're not sinking the posts but rather attaching them to exisiting and strong fence posts. This has obviously be the cause of lots of chin rubbing, but sinking them behind the pears would have meant bring the pears forward into the garden more, because the wall they are infront of has foundations, and the posts for the fence above it are bolted through. its reasonably sheltered in that spot....being between our house and a big agricultural barn, and a fairly narrow bit of garden...but feels risky none the less. For much the same reason we're ging for 4 posts not six. I have a feeling this corner cutting is going to hurt later on.

Hmmm, difficult to over-engineer supports for training fruit trees but easy to under-engineer (I've done that!!). If I understand correctly the support posts for the fence are bolted thru the wall. What isnt clear is the difference in fence height and training wire height. If the training wires exceed fence height by, say,4 feet, then thats a lot of extra windage/weight to be supported by the lower fence/wall bolts that were designed for fence support only.

lostinrates

rhiwfield wrote: »

Hmmm, difficult to over-engineer supports for training fruit trees but easy to under-engineer (I've done that!!). If I understand correctly the support posts for the fence are bolted thru the wall. What isnt clear is the difference in fence height and training wire height. If the training wires exceed fence height by, say,4 feet, then thats a lot of extra windage/weight to be supported by the lower fence/wall bolts that were designed for fence support only.

yeah, about four feet deifference....:(

the fence posts are bolted on to a cement block wall.....and we can add more ...or even re do resinking fence posts later...........

choille

Hello All lurkers & posters.

Potato - I always manage a row or 2 of Pink Apple Firs despite their knobbles they are such a wonderful salad crop.

We had not a lot of sleep last night because of wind - not due to Brussel Sprouts but gales & torrential rain so went out & came back to the rocking & rolling. Much flooding over in the East & still raining here in the West & still gales. Gave a bloke a lift as he'd had his pterol tank drilled! & His fuel guage wasn't working correctly & he'd run out so OH took him to a gragae & took him back to his car which he'd parked in the middle of a planted round a bout.

Very slidey out on the croft so not doing owt but watching telly now. The burn is in such spate it may wash away our bridge - the stone platform at its side is under the water & some have come loose but it's too dangerous to go near.

Can't wait to see your web site Stitching Witch.

Hope the cat is okay & everyone is safe & warm.

rhiwfield

Just a thought Lir, if you think this will be a temporary measure, why not do just that and just put in ring eye bolts on the fence supports up to six feet high with heavy garden wire strained through. Dead cheap and unless youve got pretrained pears you'll not need the extra 4' of height for a couple of years, giving you ample time to put in your desired permanent solution while the pear trees are growing.

lostinrates

rhiwfield wrote: »

Just a thought Lir, if you think this will be a temporary measure, why not do just that and just put in ring eye bolts on the fence supports up to six feet high with heavy garden wire strained through. Dead cheap and unless youve got pretrained pears you'll not need the extra 4' of height for a couple of years, giving you ample time to put in your desired permanent solution while the pear trees are growing.

That would have been a great idea...but I think we've planted the pears a few inches too far forward now (leaving room for the structure and also, because of the huge foundations the wall has)......I'll have a look again tomorrow though to see if I think we could get eyes with longer ''stems''. the wall part of the boundary (about three feet high) has foundations vastly superior...about three/four fold too those of the bit of the house with founadtions:rotfl::rotfl::rotfl:.

rhiwfield

lostinrates wrote: »

That would have been a great idea...but I think we've planted the pears a few inches too far forward now (leaving room for the structure and also, because of the huge foundations the wall has)......I'll have a look again tomorrow though to see if I think we could get eyes with longer ''stems''. the wall part of the boundary (about three feet high) has foundations vastly superior...about three/four fold too those of the bit of the house with founadtions:rotfl::rotfl::rotfl:.

You can always bolt some wood spacers to the supports and screw the ring eyes into them. If the fence uprights are the usual 4" square just buy one 4" post and saw off small section to use as 4" spacers. It'll look like it was planned that way

alfie_1

HIYA.....

i am so stuffed i cant move !!:D

i have just ate and ate ! why? was i hungry? starving? NO just greedy..:D

LIR...having sat and finally worked out a mental picture of what you were describing and thinking i was quite clever to work it out/poss solution by the time my brain had finished enjoying yet another chocolate....RHIWFIELD had beaten me to it:rotfl::rotfl:....

he's obviously not having a "sugar rush" like me !!;) and is clevererererer....:D

i took the dogs for an amble down the lane this afternoon and thought id joined in a sponsered walk !!! hundreds of the back packing little bu**ars...:eek: needless to say my dogs scattered them into groups !
group 1 ....liked dogs and pat them
group 2....bit snooty and dont get hairs on my armanni....
group 3......running into the ditch/hiding behind someone else.....

my dogs are on a mission when on that walk and have not the least concern as they believe EVERYONE loves em...:D

lostinrates

rofl Alfie. we also stumbled across a huge group of walkers, who we learned meet every year for a boxing day walk. they had a huge pack of dogs between them, and its the first time I've seen dog-dog not terribly sure about approaching and asking to play! when we got back to the car she lay on the back seat and hid.