Preparedness for when

greenbee

Karmacat wrote: »

Aha! Thanks MG! I don't think any of my fences would take it ... thinking about it, tho, I *do* have a few feet of trellis on brick walls ... that might do for salady plants, just in the summer. Got to make the most of the garden soil, first

Okay, I have a plan

It LOOKS as if MG has attached batten to the fence posts and then put poles across ?maybe dowel supported by cup hooks? so that the posts rather than the fence panel takes the weight. You could do the same with batten attached to brick wall. I'm sure MG will enlighten us later...

Karmacat

**waves at greenbee**

Thanks! Quaking at the thought of dowels, but I'm sure I can do something. I *do* want to use up the ground first, if you know what I mean - thats easiest to keep watered and all that

AnimalTribe

Karmacat the bottle garden I'm planning is very much like Memory Girl's and it may indeed have been her post that started me on the track. Thanks for the picture Memory Girl, I haven't learned how to add pictures yet.


The one I am planning is almost the same, except that the bottle bottoms are cut off and the tops are used. If I remember rightly the top bottle has the lid taken off and the rest have the tops on but with a hole drilled through the lid. The bottles are then hung in lines (very much like the picture) but when the top bottle is watered drips go into the second bottle and so on like a cascade. The plants are put in a flap cut in the side of the bottle. I hope that makes some kind of sense. If I find where I've put the link I'll post it. I was wondering about painting the bottles black so that the roots of the plants would warm up, but I thought it might get too hot and the plants would just wilt. I think I'll try a few of both and see what gets the best results.


MrsLurcherWalker I now have a jar, cotton balls, and matches ready to go. I just need the lighter.


I hope that I've replied to the PM I was sent. I couldn't see any sign that my reply was successful.


I meant to introduce myself when I first joined. I live amongst the Cheviot hills, my nearest neighbour is 4 miles away, the nearest village about 6, and my nearest supermarket about 15. I'm surrounded by hills, moors and sheep. I was recently made redundant but luckily I'm fairly handy, as is my husband so we can manage most jobs between us. My teenagers have 'hollow legs' though and cost me a fortune. It's a beautiful part of the world and I wouldn't be anywhere else, but winters are severe and we can be cut off for several weeks. Gales are fearsome and every spring we spend loads of our time repairing storm and snow damage.

AnimalTribe

Karmacat As a new user I'm not allowed to post links but if you Google Willem Van Cotthem and container gardening you should hopefully see what I'm going to try.

RAS

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-uDbjZ9roEQ

Saw that somewhere over the summer, Harrogate or Tatton?

Butterfly_Brain

Just done a real seeds order and when I told DH what is going on with the EUSSR he has told me to do another one on Monday. It strikes me that TPTB want to stop us living sustainably and allow us to be ripped off by the globalists :mad:

westcoastscot

RAS wrote: »

wcs

I grow 9 star perennial broccoli which is apparently a multihead cauli. My plant is on the way out and 8-10 years old. I have a baby to follow on and will try to root some shoots next spring. By year 3 it needs a metre diameter space and will provide 15-40 main heads plus side shoots. Marshalls are still selling seeds.

I think Daubetons kale has to be grown from side shoots. Have realised a fellow plotter has it and will ask for some cuttings.

Both these survived minus 19 for months in early and late 2010.

Do you have welsh onions?

Thanks RAS will look at Marshalls - I did have welsh onions but lost them over last winter, will try again though.
Thanks also Animaltribe - will follow your potential lead to seeds also

Butterfly_Brain

Found The coal house at war on you tube, great telly!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aICzcTUd-go

mardatha

You're not that far from me AT, look north and gimme a wee wave

ALIBOBSY

alfsmum wrote: »

Our 1990s build house doesn't have a chimney or suitable space for a wood burner but I was very taken with the fire pit that was blazing away outside the local whole foods store last weekend and wondered if it was worth considering a smaller one for the garden. We have an average size garden so I think we could accommodate one without annoying the neighbours too much - or no more than they annoy us with their stinky barbecues. It might satisfy my inner pyromaniac and provide some heat to huddle round in a power cut if we were really stuck for warmth. So.....has anyone got one/used one//generally got any experience they could pass on? I could finally find a use for all those bits of wood I feel the need to pick up when we're walking the dogs!

We got one from a local guy that is a sort of brazier/pit made from a washing machine drum for £13. With the holes in the drum it looks really pretty and the kids love roasting marshmallows around it. There are videos on how to make your own online, but as OH doesn't have any welding equipment it just seemed easier to get one locally.

We have found not overloading it too much helps keep the flames and smoke down as well as not burning wood that is too fresh and green.

If the worst happened we would probably pull back the carpet in one room and put it on a hard floor to use.

We are in an 80's house so no chimney, but we have an outside wall so are saving to get a log burner with a metal skinned chimney.

Ali x