Spent the long weekend mostly reroofing a 12'x8' pent roof shed tall front. Complicated by the fact I extended it on the site, down-slope, with the tall bit of roof abutting the right side. Where I had doubled up 3/4" plywood header board with an aluminium panel holding the edge of the Onduline...

After rotavating I had a few hours fun with robins, one was investigating the rotovated soil and carrying off beakfulls of wrigglies to a nest somewhere. Then another turned up and a fight ensued on top of next doors salad/cabbage tall netting cage, both zoomed off. The original (I think) resumed ac...

Magazine doesn't see the need for more moderators with the volume of activity on here. If you can point out any more of his posts, which the "Ban Hammer" tool was supposed to remove I can individually delete them. But unless I peruse every thread in past months I'm unable to find them as h...

Darui was banned and the repost editing Stravaig's post has been removed.
In total I removed one on April 21st and edited out his links on another on May 1st.
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Closest two matches match I can find in the Phone App "LeafSnap" are:

1 Sibthorpia Peregrina AKA Madeira Moneywort, "it forms dense mats of finely pubescent leaves and miniature yellow flowers."

2 Bramble.

Our Allotment provider wants to go green and is advising "a dilute solution of salt" to kill weeds. Thoughts and opinions welcome. I note the RHS counsel against it and point to the Health & Safety Executive as regards what is legal to use. https://www.rhs.org.uk/weeds/weeds-on-hard-su...

Off to Colchester again then?

I believe that's where it is now.
glasshouse. / (ˈɡlɑːsˌhaʊs) / noun. British a glass building, esp a greenhouse, used for growing plants in protected or controlled conditions. obsolete, informal, mainly British a military detention centre.

OH, Lizzie was always up for a giggle, especially with "The Grock in the Frock"!

Hmmm the joys of differential pricing £11.99 up here

Sadly no, my older dog is not as mobile as he used to be.

Thought we'd have a sodden match today as I was preparing the container bar. Dark slate clouds to our west, a flurry of hail and a strong shower. All changed by kickoff time, bright sunshine with lighter coloured clouds. A good crowd and thankfully after being thrashed away last week, a convincing w...

Brief shower this morning, determinably overcast. Yesterdays success was second coat of barn paint on concrete shed door and frame, made a chain of two padlocks and the bits on the door & frame to leave it secure but no painted bits touching each other. Walked the dogs and when we got back it wa...

Tried some weeding and tidying on allotment yesterday, oh dear, sticky sticky sticky undigable!

I occasionally use LeafSnap, which identified the beautiful towering plant I was brushing against when walking up or down the path between my two plots as Hemlock.

I'd used my pole saw to remove overhanging hawthorn and honeysuckle above where a tenant wanted to put his diddy greenhouse some weeks ago and promised to dig out my shredder. Finally dry enough on Saturday to do the deed, I think he was worried it'd never happen, anyhow, when I'd dragged the 5HP be...