Kitchen Garden Forum

Automatically resizes he says turning tablet 90 degrees back and forth.

From what Peter has just said I guess picture sizes are more and more important as we now have to account for phone screens through tablet screens to full blown PC/Apple Mac screens.

Me being a luddite I use my phone for making phone calls, not for taking pictures, however I do take tablets sometimes but you'll just have to picture that for yourselves.

All my pictures used on here are based on 80dpi @ 640 width or height subject to landscape or portrait format.

Do people need them to be smaller ??? If so what is the ideal size without making the pictures look like a thumbnail l??

Peter - there must be a file size limit as I tried to load a photo 'as taken' (just under 2MB) and it said it was too big that's why I tried 1024.

Felt really good up the plot today, in fact after about 5 hours up there I told one of my neighbouring plot holders he needed to go home because I looked in better health than he did. His back was obviously giving him gyp.
I dug a fair amount of weeds out, spread some of the composted manure around and split the new raised beds down. Definitely prefer them like this.







Came home and fell asleep

I think you may be right about the raised beds not needing to be so deep. They are probably few vegs which need that depth of soil and presumably some of them will still be grown on the normal plot. I suppose unless one is an enthusiastic deep digger, little soil deeper then about 12 inches ever gets disturbed. I wonder how deep worms bury themselves down.

Not surprised you came home and fell asleep. Still, all that fresh air makes for healthy tiredness which is probably better than the exhaustion felt following the medical treatments you've been having. At least you have the satisfaction of some worthwhile jobs done,

'eyup Primrose

You are right about few things needing soil that deep. Making them that deep was not for the benefit of plants, totally about making life on the plot easier for my daughter when she takes it over.
It's all about me leaving something practical for her to be able to work on along with her husband, she has her own debilitating illness to contend with. I can't see her and her husband being able to afford to do this, think they have financial priorities other than topsoil, manure and raised beds so I'm putting it in place before I depart.

Also right about the tiredness, it was a healthy tiredness, I had no intention of being up there that long when I started the day, just felt so right though.
Bit of work, good chat. Surprise visit from an ex house neighbour, fresh brew and chat.

Only thing missing was bacon rolls..

Damn good day all round

Monday 16th Nov, although because I spent 6 hours up the plot yesterday I keep thinking today is Tuesday ...................... I'm losing the plot !!


After todays 4 hours the raised beds now look like this, so with apologies to Edward Lear......................................


Pa Snip and Primrose went to sea in a beautiful pea green canoe...

They didn't get far because it had no bottom

Pa Snip may be an excellent builder of raised beds, but I'm a little concerned about his ship building capabilities!
I fear he may have done his apprenticeship with the Swiss Navy!

Then there's the doubtful poetry.

Primrose wrote:Pa Snip may be an excellent builder of raised beds, but I'm a little concerned about his ship building capabilities!
I fear he may have done his apprenticeship with the Swiss Navy!

Swiss Army actually, I've got one of their knives.

Geoff wrote:Then there's the doubtful poetry.

I am to poetry what Les Dawson was to piano playing, except his was a talent

As I get nearer and nearer to completion of the raised bed project I shall need something to keep me occupied on the plot.

I have therefore decided to install a beach.

Actually its 1 and 3/4 tonnes of sharp sand laid over a couple of days this week as a way of filling dips and troughs that existed in that part of the plot.
Not going to dig it in, it can work its own way in over time and break up the clay in that area.

Its been a busy week getting things done between the heavy rain downpours. Having a break from the plot this weekend