Nice People Thread No. 15, a Cyber Summer

chris_m

silvercar wrote: »

I watered the plants yesterday, just before it started raining. Was thinking of buying an irrigation system for the raised flower beds. Not sure I'll bother.

I'm using a homemade one for my vegetable patch - it's a conglomeration of assorted lengths of leaky hose joined using lengths of normal hose so the water only comes out where I actually want it, controlled by a Hozelock timer which is currently set to come on for 45 minutes at around 07:00 and 19:00. By making it from lengths of hose it can easily be altered when I change the bed layout next year or if I feel one area needs more water than others and rig up for it to have two leaky lengths running across that area.

Note to self, enough rain today so turn it off at the master control, AKA the tap on the outside of the kitchen wall - or, if it's still really tiddling down and I don't feel like getting wet, the stopcock on the inside of the wall, in the cupboard under the sink..

Pyxis

PasturesNew wrote: »

I need a DOOF-activated high power water blaster

They're driving me mad.... and only 1 hour in ... but the main issue isn't that they ARE, it's that I've no control over how long for, or when it will stop.... they could give up in 5 minutes.... or not for another 8 hours.

Do another rain dance.


You need one of these.

https://www.primrose.co.uk/-p-1907.html?adtype=pla&kwd=&gclid=COen5uKVldQCFdIK0wodNcUI6w



And/or one of those sound emitters that emit horrible sounds that only young ears can hear. The good thing is that when they tell their parents about "the horrible noise", the parents won't be able to hear anything and will think the kids are making it up! :rotfl:

PasturesNew

Pyxis wrote: »

And/or one of those sound emitters that emit horrible sounds that only young ears can hear. The good thing is that when they tell their parents about "the horrible noise", the parents won't be able to hear anything and will think the kids are making it up! :rotfl:

I do want one, but unsure how to achieve it for just £1-2.

There's a free downloadable sound of it .... if only I can work out how to play that to a speaker 30' away, that runs on batteries.

If I had a battery speaker, placed where I want it ... and could turn the sound on/off at that speaker, and get the free downloadable sound track .... job'd be a good 'un.

michaels

PasturesNew wrote: »

I do want one, but unsure how to achieve it for just £1-2.

There's a free downloadable sound of it .... if only I can work out how to play that to a speaker 30' away, that runs on batteries.

If I had a battery speaker, placed where I want it ... and could turn the sound on/off at that speaker, and get the free downloadable sound track .... job'd be a good 'un.

There are loads of cheap bluetooth battery speakers, often they are 'shower proof' so even better. Problem is I suspect most of them won't actually produce sound at that frequency even if your phone tells them to (which it may well not do either).

chris_m

PasturesNew wrote: »

There's a free downloadable sound of it .... if only I can work out how to play that to a speaker 30' away, that runs on batteries.
If I had a battery speaker, placed where I want it ... and could turn the sound on/off at that speaker, and get the free downloadable sound track .... job'd be a good 'un.

Get someone to rewire your car stereo so that it's on a permanent live instead of ignition switched power feed, bung the download on a CD, set the volume accordingly, job's a good 'un

PasturesNew

michaels wrote: »

There are loads of cheap bluetooth battery speakers, often they are 'shower proof' so even better. Problem is I suspect most of them won't actually produce sound at that frequency even if your phone tells them to (which it may well not do either).

I've just been googling - I know nothing of music playing ... and I'd come up with the word bluetooth.

The range is a known frequency range, so I'd just need to check that the specs included that specific frequency and that it was well within the range ability.

Trouble is, too, not being able to hear it (or maybe I can due to my peculiar hearing issues) ... I'd not know how loud it was either. Or if it were playing.

PasturesNew

chris_m wrote: »

Get someone to rewire your car stereo so that it's on a permanent live instead of ignition switched power feed, bung the download on a CD, set the volume accordingly, job's a good 'un

That sounds more complex/expensive than the cheap route I'm trying to achieve

michaels

Pyxis wrote: »

Yes, it really pelted down in the night, but I didn't see any lightning or hear any thunder this time.

Dunno about Hertfordshire, but my garden is gradually turning into a rainforest.

The bindweed is taking over, and where the weed membrane was, there are now foot high weeds.

I expect the foxes will be back soon.

That's ok. Better than jaguars and pythons. (Just next-door's cat and some earthworms).

I expect the frogs will be having a field-day, pretty much literally!

I like finding frogs in the garden. There are lots of places for them to hide. Almost every time I lift a stone or some bricks there's a frog.

I tried kissing one once, but it just stayed a frog.

Reading the local paper and apparently there is a 'big cat' sighted regularly very near to us - apparently the colouring suggests it is more likely a cougar than a jaguar.

silvercar wrote: »

I watered the plants yesterday, just before it started raining.

Was thinking of buying an irrigation system for the raised flower beds. Not sure I'll bother.

St Albamazon rain forest it is not - I don't understand how come even SC can get rain and yet we can not manage more than 3 sprinkles...

chris_m

chris_m wrote: »

Note to self, enough rain today so turn it off at the master control, AKA the tap on the outside of the kitchen wall - or, if it's still really tiddling down and I don't feel like getting wet, the stopcock on the inside of the wall, in the cupboard under the sink..

Well, it's stopped raining so I went out and turned the tap off, leaving a note to that effect in the kitchen so I don't forget to turn the irrigation back on tomorrow if we've had no more rain.

My delivery from Wickes arrived, so I've also been out planting parsnips in dustbins full of compost, seedlings I bought few weeks ago in one bin and seeds in a second.

I have loads of parsnips in the ground already but this is by way of an experiment for next year. If they do OK in the bins I can save space in the veggie patch, thereby allowing me to space out the various Brassicas more, this year I have got them a bit too close together.

Also, Parsnips can be attacked by Carrot Root Fly but said flies apparently haven't got a very good head for height and rarely get more than 18" or so above the ground - way too low for a dustbin I've already planned to do the carrots in bins next year for the same reason, so that'll be a bit more space saved.

If the spuds I've got growing in bags this year give sufficient yield per bag I'll do all of them in bags next year, more space saved. They are certainly looking happy in the bags, although judging by the size of them I am beginning to wonder if they really are spuds.
I wonder how you're supposed to cook Triffids?
:rotfl:

Next job - install the water butts that came in the delivery to capture the rain off the workshop roof. The ones I've got catching it off the back porch & outbuilding are doing very nicely so it's worth catching some more free water

PasturesNew

My hedgehog's still about ... just spotted some doo doo ... he's squeezed out a bit of a biggun by the fence.
It's about 2½" long.