Temptingly early Spring Bits and Bobs.- 2017

[peter]

Got four perforated lengths of galvanised steel last year from another plotholder who didn't want the compost heap they formed as a square.
I think they are some sort of industrial shelf, anyways, 17" wide, they are making an excellent edging to stop the track crumbling into my plot.

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[peter]

Cleared a barrow of parsnips and rotovated the front quarter of one of my two plots. Discovered some root vegetables whose tops had rptted away.

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[Geoff]

Having just been down the garden to cover the propagator lights got me wondering, when it is pouring with rain and blowing a gale do you get wetter walking or running? 17.5 mm today and counting.

[WestHamRon]

If you're moving towards the rain, it doesn't matter.
If you're moving away from the rain, you should get less wet.
If the rain is sideways on, run or walk like a crab.

[tigerburnie]

Got four perforated lengths of galvanised steel last year from another plotholder who didn't want the compost heap they formed as a square.
I think they are some sort of industrial shelf, anyways, 17" wide, they are making an excellent edging to stop the track crumbling into my plot.

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Peter that galvanised steel is cable tray, hung from walls and on rods from ceilings, you lay electrical cables on it and then pass cable ties through the slots to clip everything on. I got told off once for running along some of that hung 50 feet up in the air pulling a new cable in.

[peter]

Peter that galvanised steel is cable tray, hung from walls and on rods from ceilings, you lay electrical cables on it and then pass cable ties through the slots to clip everything on. I got told off once for running along some of that hung 50 feet up in the air pulling a new cable in.

Doh!

Feel like a right fool now.
See the stuff regularly, but usually from underneath.
It's pretty thick this stuff.

[tigerburnie]

Great re cycling Peter, unless you were an electrician, you'd not be familiar with it, I worked in maintenance for about half my working life.

[Ricard with an H]

After coping with nature for sixteen years I finally instructed the local mole catcher, I never caught a mole in my whole life.

[tigerburnie]

Mara des Bois arrived today, now planted in the wooden window boxes and sat in the greenhouse, looking forward to trying these.

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[peter]

Knackered.

9 till 3pm at rugby club helping construct an extension to our marquee base.
Dig out, membrane, type 2 crushed concrete, sand, then astroturf.
Marquee is a framed one, no central poles or long guy ropes.
Thank heavens for a middle sized digger and a man very skilled in it's use.
9m x 12m x a big spade depth, 50 tons of crush, nine tons of sand, not enough sand, so we fenced it off from tomorrow's minis.

Home, sofa to tip, back to allotment and 3.5 hours rotovator with my Merry Tiller.
So glad I have an imitation light bulb led light in the shed, scraping the MT down in the dusk, I'd never have managed the chain and padlock without it.

[Stephen]

That's a lot of work Peter, I'm tired just reading of your exploits.

[Ricard with an H]

That's a lot of work Peter, I'm tired just reading of your exploits.

Yes Peter, me too up to three years ago. This year I only get around five hours light work out of myself and I have 100 bare root hedge plants to get in the ground.

[Primrose]

Yes, as we get older it seems that every spring it gets a little harder and the joints are a little more creaky trying to get into gear after the winter break. Get one nice sunny day and we all rush out, do too much and crock ourselves up for a week !

[Ricard with an H]

I think I started to feel a little better after seeing the sun a few times, I also took some iron in the form of iron rich water sachets mixed with apple juice. Left to my own devises I tend to revert to the vegetarian I have been over forty years and whilst iron is present in a vegetarian diet you do have to make sure to identify it.

Also, I'm still unsure about the effects of opiate withdrawal. online information can be very dodgy and doctors who can help are few.

I did five hours yesterday servicing my ride on mower, I would normally regard that as light work but I was knackered when I got into a hot bath at around one o'clock.

I may be suffering some psychosomatic aches and pains, I've been checked out by Xray and MRI on all my lower joints. Nothing is amiss, a back problem I share with possibly everyone I meet isn't worth my attempts for sympathy so I'll just 'GET-ON-WITH-IT.

How is the best way to use bonemeal and on what other than my bare root plants ? Im warned not to allow it to touch any roots or part of plant yet even digging it in could result in contact. I will be ordering some on Monday but I'm buying 25 kilos because it's half the price compared to small quantities and presumably I can find a use for 25 kilos over the next few years. 25 kilos is £20 delivered, one kilo in polythene is £3.50 plus delivery which makes it about £10 for one kilo.

[tigerburnie]

What's the rugby club Peter, ex player myself.