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by Compo
Tue Feb 09, 2021 11:16 am
Forum: General chatter
Topic: Late Winter Bits and Bobs.
Replies: 138
Views: 25099

Re: Late Winter Bits and Bobs.

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It started with buying a £50 welder from Aldi. A lot of you tube watching and there you go. I have made several for friends etc. Here is Mk IV in my garage / workshop.
by Compo
Tue Feb 09, 2021 9:29 am
Forum: General chatter
Topic: Late Winter Bits and Bobs.
Replies: 138
Views: 25099

Re: Late Winter Bits and Bobs.

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My home workshop and allotment shed both have woodburners. Made by my own hands from recycled propane bottles.
by Compo
Mon Feb 08, 2021 11:04 am
Forum: General chatter
Topic: Late Winter Bits and Bobs.
Replies: 138
Views: 25099

Re: Late Winter Bits and Bobs.

Hi Clive. I've done the roof thing before but my greenhouse is only 10x6 so not a lot of headroom. The box doubles as a brassica cage and goes upside down over some cabbages or similar to deter the cabbage white
by Compo
Sun Feb 07, 2021 8:32 pm
Forum: General chatter
Topic: Late Winter Bits and Bobs.
Replies: 138
Views: 25099

Re: Late Winter Bits and Bobs.

You may remember last year that the mice on my plot, got into the greenhouse and eat every single seed that is food, once it has sprouted, ie beans, curcubit family, peas, sweet peas etc and I have tried various systems to foil them over the years. So last year made this large seed cage and it seeme...
by Compo
Fri Feb 05, 2021 11:03 pm
Forum: Growing places
Topic: Fixing Greenhouse!
Replies: 16
Views: 9669

Re: Fixing Greenhouse!

Banned from eBay what a claim to fame Westi
by Compo
Fri Feb 05, 2021 11:01 pm
Forum: General chatter
Topic: Late Winter Bits and Bobs.
Replies: 138
Views: 25099

Re: Late Winter Bits and Bobs.

Not bad here today but the allotment is a bog, we have had to close our grass surfaced car park due to it being so churned up and muddy. But it was dry and mild till about 2pm, so I managed to change one of the polycarb twinwall sheets in the greenhouse as the old one had degraded after about 7/8 ye...
by Compo
Fri Feb 05, 2021 10:55 pm
Forum: General chatter
Topic: Happy Brthday.
Replies: 4
Views: 1273

Re: Happy Brthday.

Ditto, great website and to be celebrated
by Compo
Fri Feb 05, 2021 9:13 am
Forum: General chatter
Topic: King Seed Supplies
Replies: 30
Views: 8233

Re: King Seed Supplies

You're all brave. Sorting a manure delivery or changing the gate combination is tougher than I dont know what. I couldn't contemplate organising a bulk seed order!!!
by Compo
Wed Feb 03, 2021 9:23 pm
Forum: Growing places
Topic: Fixing Greenhouse!
Replies: 16
Views: 9669

Re: Fixing Greenhouse!

https://www.diy.com/departments/palram- ... 700_BQ.prd
I don't know what size you are looking for Westi, but this seems good value. And it is made by Palram whose polycarb twin wall sheets I have used in my greenhouse
by Compo
Wed Feb 03, 2021 9:11 pm
Forum: Growing places
Topic: Fixing Greenhouse!
Replies: 16
Views: 9669

Re: Fixing Greenhouse!

Well Westi, you used to be able to get a new greenhouse from B & Q with the polycarb twinwall option like what I have used, I think the first set of twinwall came as a glazing kit for a B & Q greenhouse, then when that got tatty I brought the stuff in the picture below, might be worth search...
by Compo
Wed Feb 03, 2021 3:55 pm
Forum: Growing places
Topic: Fixing Greenhouse!
Replies: 16
Views: 9669

Re: Fixing Greenhouse!

16123671772038199920971470685201.jpg 16123670192614229681386109343269.jpg 16123669779936065948623633948327.jpg Here you go. I think it was DIY Plastics who may now be TW plastics but it was a while back and I can't completely remember the supplier The screws called tek screws are widely available T...
by Compo
Wed Feb 03, 2021 9:02 am
Forum: General chatter
Topic: King Seed Supplies
Replies: 30
Views: 8233

Re: King Seed Supplies

Very poor. I'd cancel and investigate alternatives. Just saying.....
by Compo
Tue Feb 02, 2021 1:21 pm
Forum: General chatter
Topic: Late Winter Bits and Bobs.
Replies: 138
Views: 25099

Re: Late Winter Bits and Bobs.

Sunshine and 12c here Primrose. Monika im 62 so Im a 'young' oldie. I've had a pacemaker since 2007 and the current implant my 3rd. Medical science is amazing. Feels like it wont be long before we will be chatting in the 'early spring bits and bobs'
by Compo
Tue Feb 02, 2021 12:41 pm
Forum: General chatter
Topic: King Seed Supplies
Replies: 30
Views: 8233

Re: King Seed Supplies

Successful raid on Wilko. Seeds obtained out of the store by 0815. Store empty....
by Compo
Tue Feb 02, 2021 7:39 am
Forum: General chatter
Topic: King Seed Supplies
Replies: 30
Views: 8233

Re: King Seed Supplies

I'm a about to do an early morning raid on Wilkos. See what seed they have.