lucysmum wrote: no worry about slugs though-spent a happy hour yesterday chopping them in half.

Oooohh harsh, how about teaching them to fly using a catapault, now thats fun...

Please be a little careful not to reveal their exact locations though as they are heavily protected & unscrupulous **** sell them illegally for a lot of money...

Try looking in the pet sections of shops we got some in our local pound shop to make balls to stop blanket weed in ponds...

In the times they had a novel suggestion; if they have a preferred location to scrat, dig a hole and bury an inflated ballon just below the surface. Can you imagine the surprise I don't think I would dare try it. Hmmmm, My next door neighbour has 9 of the little darlings, but of course none of them...

The worms we have were much easier to find than that, & what a lot of people don't realise is that you can use the red ones from an existing compost heap, not the normal white ones you find when digging the garden though... Young Sparhawk spent a lovely afternoon furtling through the compost arm...

Thanks that will keep my nipper quiet in the school holidays next week...

Question now answered, just in case anyone else is doing the same, it comes to about 2 cubic yards & an old gardener told me they were taught generally alow 1 ton per cubic yard...

I am in the process of following the raised planter section like the one in the mag although mine will be 12ft X 5ft & sloping from 9" to 13" is there an easy way to work out how much soil I will need the advert I have seen in my local rag gives a price per ton... I am hoping that one ...

My Feb not arrived yet from newsagents ...

They will be getting a personal visit tomorrow ...

I quite often use Premier Seeds Direct on e-bay...

Rats in compost bin, give the outside a big thwack with a piece of wood or similar a couple of times a day...

sparhawkiw wrote:

Monika wrote: Otherwise, I consider the January issue is the best ever!

Mine hasn't been delivered yet...

I has now...

Monika wrote: Otherwise, I consider the January issue is the best ever!

Mine hasn't been delivered yet...

I joined the Armed Forces at 16 (in 1983) & my first H.M.S. at sea at 17... & so could have been called to go into action, so not to have been allowed onto an allotment unescorted as I might put a prong through my foot I would have thought was a bit extreme...

Good job the story didn't come out about 219 days ago!!!