Hi I Geoff,
This year I have bought some Levingtons original MPC with 50% extra content which is 71% Peat and is really good to use and is flowable with good airfilled porosity. So far it has been rubbish free and very good for seeding and potting-on.
It was on a special rate when buying two bags so I negotiated a deal for 12 bags which is equal to 18 bags for £63.00.
This started out as quite expensive but ended up the cheapest @ £3.50. a bag on offer.
Full blown Spring Bits and Bobs. - 2017
Moderators: KG Steve, Chantal, Tigger, peter, Chief Spud
-
Pa Snip
- KG Regular
- Posts: 3091
- Joined: Sat Dec 06, 2014 8:20 pm
- Location: Near the big house on the hill Berkshire
tigerburnie wrote:I've been train spotting, our only scheduled steam train for the year.
.
Is that Black 5 45212 ?
I've been out shooting main line steam as well recently, provides an occasional break from the plot.
- Attachments
-
- DSC_0760edit.jpg (208.69 KiB) Viewed 4030 times
The danger when people start to believe their own publicity is that they often fall off their own ego.
At least travelling under the guise of the Pa Snip Enterprise gives me an excuse for appearing to be on another planet
-
Geoff
- KG Regular
- Posts: 5785
- Joined: Thu Nov 24, 2005 5:33 pm
- Location: Forest of Bowland
- Been thanked: 319 times
Hi JB. The Clover was £33.60 for 5 x 80l bags. I ordered a load of stuff to get free pallet delivery that included these and 5 x 75l multipurpose for £24.36 and 5 x 75l mp + JI for £27.42 both excellent peat based Clover products.
Should have said on my trip back through the Dales I saw Red Kites that I've never seen anywhere near here before.
Should have said on my trip back through the Dales I saw Red Kites that I've never seen anywhere near here before.
-
Pa Snip
- KG Regular
- Posts: 3091
- Joined: Sat Dec 06, 2014 8:20 pm
- Location: Near the big house on the hill Berkshire
Levingtons now produce so many different Litre size bags. For some garden centre outlets they even seem to produce exclusive size bags.
It used to be good quality but the last time I purchased Levingtons was the beginning of last years season. It had so many small bits of twig and other matter that it needed sieving. Its off our purchase list now
GEOFF,
Those Red Kites really are expanding across the country. I used to work in Surrey, live in Berkshire. Red Kites were common (not as common as they are now) in our home area, once you passed a certain point on the journey to work you never saw any. Now they are also moving south and are seen in Surrey.
It used to be good quality but the last time I purchased Levingtons was the beginning of last years season. It had so many small bits of twig and other matter that it needed sieving. Its off our purchase list now
GEOFF,
Those Red Kites really are expanding across the country. I used to work in Surrey, live in Berkshire. Red Kites were common (not as common as they are now) in our home area, once you passed a certain point on the journey to work you never saw any. Now they are also moving south and are seen in Surrey.
The danger when people start to believe their own publicity is that they often fall off their own ego.
At least travelling under the guise of the Pa Snip Enterprise gives me an excuse for appearing to be on another planet
-
tigerburnie
- KG Regular
- Posts: 2222
- Joined: Wed Jan 18, 2017 10:12 am
- Location: Angus by the sea
- Has thanked: 476 times
- Been thanked: 334 times
Black 5 on Tay bridge2 by R MAURINS, on FlickrIt was Pa, should have been Union of South Africa, but it's poorly sick apparently
Been gardening for over 65 years and still learning.
Hi. Geoff and Pa S,
Certainly there are some very good deals around this year with regards to MPC. I bought from a family owned garden centre near Worcester which is a 90 mile round trip but I had to go to Worcester for a hospital appointment so combined the visits.
As regards the Red Kites, which are abundant hereabouts, they drove the Buzzards away for couple of years but they are back with a vengeance this year and watched an aerial battle involving around six of each which reminded me of my Air Force days playing silly buggers with millions of pounds of taxpayers money.
Pa, I can well understand you getting Kites in Berkshire because they released them into the Chiltern Hills some twenty odd years ago and really that is only a long glide from Berkshire. Kites are incredible scavengers and here they live off road kills. The road slaughter off Pheasants, Rabbits, Badgers and the occasional Roe Deer is never ending.
Certainly there are some very good deals around this year with regards to MPC. I bought from a family owned garden centre near Worcester which is a 90 mile round trip but I had to go to Worcester for a hospital appointment so combined the visits.
As regards the Red Kites, which are abundant hereabouts, they drove the Buzzards away for couple of years but they are back with a vengeance this year and watched an aerial battle involving around six of each which reminded me of my Air Force days playing silly buggers with millions of pounds of taxpayers money.
Pa, I can well understand you getting Kites in Berkshire because they released them into the Chiltern Hills some twenty odd years ago and really that is only a long glide from Berkshire. Kites are incredible scavengers and here they live off road kills. The road slaughter off Pheasants, Rabbits, Badgers and the occasional Roe Deer is never ending.
JB.
Hello tigerb
Nice video here of 45212 in excellent form on the KWVR - very good sound track.
Strictly for steam buffs.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2cvT96TffyE
John
Nice video here of 45212 in excellent form on the KWVR - very good sound track.
Strictly for steam buffs.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2cvT96TffyE
John
The Gods do not subtract from the allotted span of men’s lives, the hours spent fishing Assyrian tablet
What we observe is not nature itself, but nature exposed to our method of questioning Werner Heisenberg
I am a man and the world is my urinal
What we observe is not nature itself, but nature exposed to our method of questioning Werner Heisenberg
I am a man and the world is my urinal
-
Pa Snip
- KG Regular
- Posts: 3091
- Joined: Sat Dec 06, 2014 8:20 pm
- Location: Near the big house on the hill Berkshire
John wrote:Hello tigerb
Nice video here of 45212 in excellent form on the KWVR - very good sound track.
John
John that is absolutely cracking. The sound of times gone by, the black soot marks on the bridges.
Reminders of that bygone era when steam was part of daily life.
Thanks for posting it, if the plot gives me anywhere as much pleasure this year as that just did I shall be a happy man.
The danger when people start to believe their own publicity is that they often fall off their own ego.
At least travelling under the guise of the Pa Snip Enterprise gives me an excuse for appearing to be on another planet
-
Westi
- KG Regular
- Posts: 6551
- Joined: Thu Oct 30, 2008 4:46 pm
- Location: Christchurch, Dorset
- Has thanked: 1677 times
- Been thanked: 620 times
Well my back reminded me I was a bit energetic yesterday so didn't go down to lottie. I was smugly thinking I'll do some home chores as it's going to be a lively day weather wise (or so the BBC told me), & once again lovely sunshine until this afternoon about 4pm. I appreciate it is difficult around here being accurate with the weather as we have the Island, Hengistbury Head & the Purbeck's protecting us, but does make it difficult to plan your day.
Anyway all was not lost, 1st cheeky pint of the season sitting in the sunshine at the Haven on Mudeford Quay watching the boats go in & out - perfect!
Anyway all was not lost, 1st cheeky pint of the season sitting in the sunshine at the Haven on Mudeford Quay watching the boats go in & out - perfect!
Westi
-
Pa Snip
- KG Regular
- Posts: 3091
- Joined: Sat Dec 06, 2014 8:20 pm
- Location: Near the big house on the hill Berkshire
Westi wrote:
Anyway all was not lost, 1st cheeky pint of the season sitting in the sunshine at the Haven on Mudeford Quay watching the boats go in & out - perfect!
Well where's the b....y pictures then Westi !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
.Did chuck it down with rain here a couple of times this afternoon, not for long though.
Yesterday went up plot for a short while but was just too knackered to do anything, Afternoon was a fall asleep watching the box job.
Today was a morning in greenhouse sowing mainly runner & French climbing beans, this afternoon was another sleep in front of the tele job.
Still feel knackered, probably not helped by misjudging the stairs on Thursday and falling down a few and landing on both knees on the hard concrete floor in the hall. Carpet didn't soften the blow much.
.
.
I am currently constantly accompanied by that Greek philosopher guy .......................................Diogenes
The danger when people start to believe their own publicity is that they often fall off their own ego.
At least travelling under the guise of the Pa Snip Enterprise gives me an excuse for appearing to be on another planet
-
robo
- KG Regular
- Posts: 2824
- Joined: Wed Oct 24, 2012 10:22 pm
- Location: st.helens
- Has thanked: 9 times
- Been thanked: 64 times
It reminds me of when I started work as an apprentice joiner in the early 60s I started for a local brick manufacturers called roughdales on maintenance they had six yards all in our town every thing was powered by steam engines not the small ones you see on steam trains but massive things with boilers around twenty five yards long , they powered everything including the five gallon boilers for making tea , even the grindstone in the fitters shop everything was shafts and belts
About the red kites in the Dales: they were first released several years ago in the north on the Harewood House estate north of Leeds. Since then they have spread widely and it is rare to travel in the Harrogate - Leeds - Skipton triangle in summer and NOT see a red kite. They are probably more common now than buzzards.
Still not a drop of rain here and there are cracks in some of the lawns.
Still not a drop of rain here and there are cracks in some of the lawns.
-
peter
- KG Regular
- Posts: 5879
- Joined: Fri Nov 25, 2005 1:54 pm
- Location: Near Stansted airport
- Has thanked: 23 times
- Been thanked: 81 times
- Contact:
My bank holiday weekend was:
Saturday.
Barman at rugby club, last game of season, 1664 watched the game, we beat Barnes who needed to beat us to avoid relegation, they tried hard.
Bar management had Green King in helping with some setup and a changing room full of barrels stacked two deep, I made it 120 of them and my bar had sprouted two extra taps. Two extra pitch side bars and the three of us in mine had a queue all through the match and two hours after.
Sunday.
Car wash as some inebriated gents had used the passenger side........
Allotment Shop duty, diy shed for more Ducks Back and hanging basket plants, weekly shop, painting five modules of my modular cabbage cage with Cuprinol Ducks Back.
Monday.
A lie in, it rained overnight so a carpentry day making more cabbage cage modules, mostly remanufacturing vandalised old ones today, so reducing my timber yard at the bottom of the garden by using everything of use.
In essence buy three 4.8m 2"×2" treated timber, cut them all in half to fit in the car. At home cut two halves in half. Assemble two long and two short as a rectangle with the bottom long inset by 10". Reinforce either with plywood triangle on the corners or with (freebie) pre-used floorboards on one side of both long edges.
Got rained off, so moved to greenhouse and pricked out eighty brassicas, ten each of various things.once painted they'll be covered with chicken wire and linked to form a rectangular wall and plastic netting will go over the top.
Planted out some pak choi in the greenhouse border.
Planted up hanging woven rush (?) cone with lilac themed pack of six plants.
Watered greenhouse then had roast pork with trimmings.
Saturday.
Barman at rugby club, last game of season, 1664 watched the game, we beat Barnes who needed to beat us to avoid relegation, they tried hard.
Bar management had Green King in helping with some setup and a changing room full of barrels stacked two deep, I made it 120 of them and my bar had sprouted two extra taps. Two extra pitch side bars and the three of us in mine had a queue all through the match and two hours after.
Sunday.
Car wash as some inebriated gents had used the passenger side........
Allotment Shop duty, diy shed for more Ducks Back and hanging basket plants, weekly shop, painting five modules of my modular cabbage cage with Cuprinol Ducks Back.
Monday.
A lie in, it rained overnight so a carpentry day making more cabbage cage modules, mostly remanufacturing vandalised old ones today, so reducing my timber yard at the bottom of the garden by using everything of use.
In essence buy three 4.8m 2"×2" treated timber, cut them all in half to fit in the car. At home cut two halves in half. Assemble two long and two short as a rectangle with the bottom long inset by 10". Reinforce either with plywood triangle on the corners or with (freebie) pre-used floorboards on one side of both long edges.
Got rained off, so moved to greenhouse and pricked out eighty brassicas, ten each of various things.once painted they'll be covered with chicken wire and linked to form a rectangular wall and plastic netting will go over the top.
Planted out some pak choi in the greenhouse border.
Planted up hanging woven rush (?) cone with lilac themed pack of six plants.
Watered greenhouse then had roast pork with trimmings.
Last edited by peter on Mon May 01, 2017 8:05 pm, edited 1 time in total.
Do not put off thanking people when they have helped you, as they may not be there to thank later.
I support http://www.hearingdogs.org.uk/
I support http://www.hearingdogs.org.uk/
-
Westi
- KG Regular
- Posts: 6551
- Joined: Thu Oct 30, 2008 4:46 pm
- Location: Christchurch, Dorset
- Has thanked: 1677 times
- Been thanked: 620 times
Managed to get some sowing done today, nothing too exciting - some French Beans, another sowing of peas, broad beans & filled the gaps in the brassica beds. Planted my curly kale plants out & as didn't fill the bed I sowed some purple kale seeds in between them - if they take it will be colourful during winter. The rest of the time was enlarging the compost bin, but a way to go with that project tomorrow.
These are my frosted cauliflowers I wrote about on Sunday, look pretty really & not drooping or anything and centres remain green so should pull through (hopefully). Anyone got any experience of this - did yours survive? As you can see they are quite big plants.
These are my frosted cauliflowers I wrote about on Sunday, look pretty really & not drooping or anything and centres remain green so should pull through (hopefully). Anyone got any experience of this - did yours survive? As you can see they are quite big plants.
- PTDC0300.JPG (279.25 KiB) Viewed 3960 times
- PTDC0301.JPG (312.15 KiB) Viewed 3960 times
Westi