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by peter
Mon May 01, 2006 7:41 pm
Forum: General chatter
Topic: Help, I dont know who I am!
Replies: 24
Views: 7670

Let me know if you find the item ok.
Good luck, Peter.
by peter
Mon May 01, 2006 6:49 pm
Forum: General chatter
Topic: Watering Can bargain
Replies: 6
Views: 3619

Watering Can bargain

Fantastic Watering Can at "The Range".
Eleven Litre plastic "Promo Watering Can" 176732 @ £3.49p with a massive black plastic rose. Waters faster than a mains hose, but gentle enough for seedbed.

Also rubber body and brass perforated plate generic rose 256413 @ £0.99p
by peter
Mon May 01, 2006 6:47 pm
Forum: General chatter
Topic: Feel like giving up
Replies: 18
Views: 5956

Doh!

There I was thinking Dimmer Half :oops:
by peter
Mon May 01, 2006 6:03 pm
Forum: General chatter
Topic: Feel like giving up
Replies: 18
Views: 5956

Girls, please explain

Dh?

OH yes, is dh a girlie put down?
by peter
Mon May 01, 2006 6:00 pm
Forum: General chatter
Topic: Help, I dont know who I am!
Replies: 24
Views: 7670

Chantal, check PM

The password to the site is case sensitive though.
by peter
Mon May 01, 2006 12:09 am
Forum: General chatter
Topic: April is over, here comes the rain
Replies: 3
Views: 2208

April is over, here comes the rain

As the clock on the wall tripped round past midnight the rain started to tap on the window here. When sowing seed earlier today the surface of the soil is as mid-summer, deeper down it's ok dampish. Last usable rose snapped today, why when the watering can seems UV stable is the disc with holes in n...
by peter
Mon May 01, 2006 12:06 am
Forum: General chatter
Topic: More on rain
Replies: 13
Views: 4885

Re: more rain.

Allan wrote: There is once again 2700 gallon storage available at the farm, half of it still has rain from some time ago when it became inaccessible.


Allan, what became inaccessible, farm, rain, stored water or the storage tank?

I am perplexed.
by peter
Mon May 01, 2006 12:03 am
Forum: General chatter
Topic: Malvern Plant Swap
Replies: 35
Views: 11930

Navigation advice.

Just don't end up in the dog bowl again. :twisted:
by peter
Mon May 01, 2006 12:02 am
Forum: General chatter
Topic: Daft rules
Replies: 12
Views: 3840

You want to try where I am. We're not allowed to water with hosepipes, only fill waterbuts with them. You lucky lucky, lucky soft northener . Not only do the angels widdle more on you than on me, but your allowed to fill your butt with a hose. Down here, where the rain don't fall, we get four horse...
by peter
Sun Apr 30, 2006 11:30 pm
Forum: Best practices
Topic: sugar spray to help pollination
Replies: 5
Views: 2966

Moulds also I reckon.
by peter
Sun Apr 30, 2006 10:57 pm
Forum: General chatter
Topic: Help, I dont know who I am!
Replies: 24
Views: 7670

Chantal announces Prescott resignation honours

Congratulations Chanters, didn't know Prescott could appoint Ladies in waiting, I though that was the Queen's perogative, but well done gal. :P
by peter
Sun Apr 30, 2006 12:09 am
Forum: General chatter
Topic: Help, I dont know who I am!
Replies: 24
Views: 7670

Aaarrrr young Chantal, but youm be racing away soon.

Strange days at the mo :!:

Can PM you if you are intrigued, but my time is not how shall I say, fully occupied.
by peter
Sun Apr 30, 2006 12:01 am
Forum: Weeds, Pests and Diseases
Topic: Brambles shambles
Replies: 2
Views: 2413

More precise method.

Only works if you have lengths that are not in/over crops. Get the best and longest rubber gloves you can find. Mix up some v-strong glyphosphate in a plastic painters tin (or similar). Take a paint brush and/or bit of old rag. Find your bramble. Carefully paint it or stroke it with the rag after di...
by peter
Sat Apr 29, 2006 11:44 pm
Forum: General chatter
Topic: The use of scalpings/planings
Replies: 11
Views: 6668

Johnboy.

Did not intend to piss you off, just warning that the nannies do worry aboutt it. I agree wholeheartedly and stand corrected on terminology, I WAS refering to planings. I'll still ask though, just to find out why. My father who was head of a Secondary Modern was RAFVR and went through WWII, flew a d...
by peter
Fri Apr 28, 2006 11:21 pm
Forum: General chatter
Topic: The use of scalpings/planings
Replies: 11
Views: 6668

There are some worries.

Chap I work with is a Conservation Volunteer and his group used to use scalpings and is now not allowed to. Some concern about petroleum based tar component leaching out into the soil. Seems silly as the damm stuff covers virtually every road in the UK. Might just be cos he generally works in Nature...