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  Topic: Starting seedlings under lights
wellington womble

Replies: 30
Views: 370869
PostForum: Grow Your Own   Posted: Sun Apr 04, 21 11:25 am   Subject: Starting seedlings under lights
It’s not been an issue up to now. I just open the window when its warm enough. The beauty of using the spare room is that I can amble in absentmindedly twenty times a day while I’m on the phone or ...
  Topic: Starting seedlings under lights
wellington womble

Replies: 30
Views: 370869
PostForum: Grow Your Own   Posted: Sun Apr 04, 21 12:38 am   Subject: Starting seedlings under lights
The IKEA lights are very good, I would definitely buy more if I could get them. I’ve got some pink lights as well, but I don’t think they are as good (although it’s hard to tell, as I’ve had ...
  Topic: Asparagus bed design
wellington womble

Replies: 39
Views: 396856
PostForum: Grow Your Own   Posted: Sun Mar 28, 21 8:22 pm   Subject: Asparagus bed design
Blimey, I’m planning on chucking 2 layers of cardboard down, putting a few inches of compost on top and forgetting about them!
  Topic: Starting seedlings under lights
wellington womble

Replies: 30
Views: 370869
PostForum: Grow Your Own   Posted: Wed Jan 06, 21 3:01 am   Subject: Starting seedlings under lights
you need to balance heat in, water in, fresh air in+all of those out in order to create perfect and stable grow conditions of humidity and temp.

Yes, I think it might be a bit of a pita. I can’t ...
  Topic: Starting seedlings under lights
wellington womble

Replies: 30
Views: 370869
PostForum: Grow Your Own   Posted: Mon Jan 04, 21 10:31 pm   Subject: Starting seedlings under lights
amazon have a selection of greenhouse thermometers from about ten quid

I know, but I must have three or four weather stations somewhere around.
  Topic: Starting seedlings under lights
wellington womble

Replies: 30
Views: 370869
PostForum: Grow Your Own   Posted: Mon Jan 04, 21 5:10 pm   Subject: Starting seedlings under lights
I’ve actually already got three lights. I was vaguely thinking of getting one more and adding them to one of those mini greenhouse thingummies. I’m just not sure how warm the garage is (not terrib ...
  Topic: Starting seedlings under lights
wellington womble

Replies: 30
Views: 370869
PostForum: Grow Your Own   Posted: Sun Jan 03, 21 10:25 pm   Subject: Starting seedlings under lights
I’d love a greenhouse, but realistically there’s nowhere to put one here. Last year I had a go at a hydroponics set up in the spare room, and it flopped. And I got water everywhere, and we couldnâ ...
  Topic: black friday bargain
wellington womble

Replies: 4
Views: 26720
PostForum: Seasonal and Frugal Shopping   Posted: Fri Nov 27, 20 11:27 pm   Subject: black friday bargain
I have one (not that one). I take a small child to loo in the night fairly regularly and don’t want to blind us. Suits us really well. I quite like floor level lighting (but then I am probably up a ...
  Topic: Windbreaks for an allotment
wellington womble

Replies: 18
Views: 274104
PostForum: Grow Your Own   Posted: Fri Sep 18, 20 4:47 pm   Subject: Windbreaks for an allotment
Because a shipping container is higher than anything else I could put up, I hypothesise it will shelter more of the allotment. (I believe the usual guide is shelter over three times the height, and di ...
  Topic: Windbreaks for an allotment
wellington womble

Replies: 18
Views: 274104
PostForum: Grow Your Own   Posted: Thu Sep 17, 20 2:34 pm   Subject: Windbreaks for an allotment
It’s the wrong place for bushes. Something easy to weed needs to go there, because of the bindweed.

I’m awfully tempted to put a shipping container there. It’d be a bombproof shed, and block ...
  Topic: Windbreaks for an allotment
wellington womble

Replies: 18
Views: 274104
PostForum: Grow Your Own   Posted: Mon Sep 14, 20 3:16 pm   Subject: Windbreaks for an allotment
We can’t have concrete, but if I plant a hedge, I won’t be able to weed it and it will get infested with bindweed and mares tail. I’m considering a heras panel, with netting on. Or maybe a haze ...
  Topic: Windbreaks for an allotment
wellington womble

Replies: 18
Views: 274104
PostForum: Grow Your Own   Posted: Sun Sep 13, 20 10:37 am   Subject: Windbreaks for an allotment
Our allotment is very windy. The beans have really struggled with it, and it held back many of the young plants early this year. It’s also deeply unpleasant to work in. Even the polytunnel I put up ...
  Topic: Is there anything more sad...?
wellington womble

Replies: 44
Views: 421943
PostForum: Grow Your Own   Posted: Sun Sep 13, 20 10:22 am   Subject: Is there anything more sad...?
your season is later starting and shorter than mine in an urban canyon 250 miles north

nowt wrong with small onions, if you expect small plant them tight, thinning is no prob if they start ...
  Topic: Fireplace
wellington womble

Replies: 90
Views: 1020961
PostForum: Make Your Own/DIY   Posted: Sun Jun 21, 20 10:48 pm   Subject: Fireplace
Your house is so full of good habits!
  Topic: the slimy hoard, wolf fur update
wellington womble

Replies: 7
Views: 112064
PostForum: Grow Your Own   Posted: Mon Jun 01, 20 12:01 pm   Subject: the slimy hoard, wolf fur update
I bet groomers would be delighted to let you have some. There’s practically enough for another dog when they do ours!

I wonder if breed makes a difference? I’m betting wolf fur is on the wiry s ...
 
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