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I planted my early spuds, onions, peas, runner beans, and broad beans, 7 weeks ago as I was going away for 5 weeks, came back on Monday last week every thing looked dead no sign of anything, a few warm days over the weekend and the only thing not showing as yet are the spuds but I did cover them wel...

very nice day today sunny, blue skies, and a very slight east wind, managed to get the nesting boxes finished in our new chicken house, there is a good chance I will be getting another 6 chickens from a local zoo I only want 3 at the most but if I refuse them they will be going to the chicken coup i...

thats my problem when they come through i will be in spain not back till early april

very cold here blue skies and strong bitting winds but i did manage to plant my spuds i know i am early but i am away all march and at least its dry today

i had a spell picking the same type when i was a kid on the farms around here, threepence a hamper was the going rate if i remember correctly, the hampers where taller than me, "the good old days"

it must be nice onboard the gravy train

2 lovely days tomorrow should be the same then back to cold and wet,got a bit done down the plot have been building raised bed walls using turf dropped off by the council we have wrapped it in black polythene to help rot it down should have some nice soil next year, also been working on our new chic...

we are banned by our council to shoot fox's on any council owned land even the allotments, on our allotment there is a lot of chicken owners me included some have had the entire flocks wiped out by fox's if we trap them we are still not allowed to kill them but have to set them free away from where ...

started putting a new shed (new to me ) up for the chickens on friday, it was a nice day worked right through to 6 p.m. trying to get finished but failed i still have to finnish the nesting box's and put in a couple of perches its not stopped raining since i went down the allotment today to try and ...

polly carb is noisey in the rain and wind but it will not become flexible with age unless its been cleaned with harsh chemicals it will also start verdigree growing and become unsightly if you clean with water or let the rain wash it you will not have a problem

you can get twin wall pollycarb thats only 6mm thick, the modern stuff they use on conservatives is anything from 15 to 28mm and usually has 5 walls, if you glaze each section in one piece it will not matter how thick or how deep the rebates on the frames are,infact you could use spars with no rebat...

i have used a lot of twin wall pollycarb on my greenhouse its been on about 15 years now with no problems, have a look round all the upvc window company's in your area you might pick up some mis measured windows cheap with a little bit of "making it fit" you would soon have a maintenance f...

very cold hail stone and sleet here, i have arranged to pick up a second hand shed i got on flee-bay,needed for the chickens, i don't think i could have picked a worst day, on the brighter side there where 5 eggs waiting for me thats gone from 1 a day to 5 today in just over one week

i had my name down for over 5 years before i had the offer of one, then i find out the one ive got plus at least 2 others have been unused for over 12 years, the other 2 are still un touched although they have been allocated, one of them, the guy who it was given to said he had a back injury and was...