Help MBE grow his dinner 2013.

Leif

I'm in danger of exhausting my 3 water butts round my house if this weather continues. A bit of rain would be nice.

Foxy0810

Can anyone help please?
My greenhouse floor is knackered and uneven, it's not a real gh that's bought in shops it's a recycled old windows one.
What do you think I should use on it?
This alongside redesigning my allotment layout is autumn winter project

annie123

Foxy0810 wrote: »

Can anyone help please?
My greenhouse floor is knackered and uneven, it's not a real gh that's bought in shops it's a recycled old windows one.
What do you think I should use on it?
This alongside redesigning my allotment layout is autumn winter project

Pallets make great floors and are free.

annie123

My red currants look like they'll be ready within a week :j great crop too but hidden behind the new red raspberry canes. Fortunately they are thornless so cutting the currants shouldn't be a problem.
Wish my fruit bushes were this good every year.


EDIT: Just picked all my cherries as a few had fallen off and 2 pigeons had tried to land on it! Just under 1.2kilos. I'm dead chuffed

Little_Vics

the flowers have fallen off my courgettes. I'm assuming that is a bad thing.

annie123

Little_Vics wrote: »

the flowers have fallen off my courgettes. I'm assuming that is a bad thing.

If they were male flowers they're not needed after they've done their job so they fall off and if they're female ones that's normal too, just keep your fingers crossed that they've been pollinated if you didn't do it for them if the courgette falls off it wasn't pollinated but loads more will be along shortly so don't worry.

Little_Vics

ah. Makes sense. I shall watch carefully to see what happens!

annie123

More shed stuff this weekend. Pond liner has arrived for the turf roof, so that's going on, along with newspper underlay, but wilkinsons didn't have any perlite in to mix with the compost so having to wait for a delivery later in the week for that.
Hubby will be doing the guttering, making window frames, some extra support beams and checking everything is tightly screwed together before undercoat goes on then Garden shades beach blue paint
To give it 2 coats in that stuff would be £50+:eek:
I've done a test piece with white emulsion and then the blue on top and it looks fine. Except for the door (I've enough exterior primer and undercoat to do that ) all other wood is pre treated so should be fine.

Any tips for what's needed shelving/hook wise for gardening stuff? It's the hand tools I lose the most, often found hiding under foliage weeks later as I got side tracked by something and just leave them where they are. I really annoy myself when I do that, and I hide the string and scissors too :mad:

My grandparents use to have a bucket with sand and old engine oil in it and dip the tools in to clean them. Not that I have any expensive tools but is it worth doing or am I faffing now?

Foxy0810

I know what you mean about finding tools after needed lol
What about making a little wooden box to store them in?

mrbadexample

annie123 wrote: »

My grandparents use to have a bucket with sand and old engine oil in it and dip the tools in to clean them. Not that I have any expensive tools but is it worth doing or am I faffing now?

I keep meaning to do this. It scours them and coats them lightly with oil, so well worth doing I'd say. And let's face it, it'll cost pennies. :money: