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MattO

Joined: 18 Feb 2013
Posts: 12
Location: Chelmsford, Essex

Posted: Mon Feb 18, 13 9:10 pm Post subject: Hello from claggy, clayey Essex

What a great find this forum has been. I have been browsing for a few days and found it useful so thought I'd dive in and sign up.

I garden for a living and do a lot of grow your own in my own time and at work so I may be able to be of use in the gardening forums but other areas seem to be a goldmine of info for padding out my 'I will do that one day' dreams!

I'm about to start a project making hot beds warmed by horse manure which seems like just the thing the members here would be interested in so over the coming weeks I will share my experiences in the GYO forum as its totally new and experimental to me too...

Rusticwood

Joined: 01 Dec 2009
Posts: 2154
Location: All over the South West

Posted: Mon Feb 18, 13 9:14 pm Post subject:
Hello from sunny Devon

dpack

Joined: 02 Jul 2005
Posts: 46345
Location: yes

Posted: Mon Feb 18, 13 9:47 pm Post subject:
i used raw manure under a topsoil for overwintered salads in a large plastic cloche. seemed to work well ,priming it with "mixture" see archive helps fermentation historically used for fruit etc in glass houses

NorthernMonkeyGirl

Joined: 10 Apr 2011
Posts: 4639
Location: Peeping over your shoulder

Posted: Mon Feb 18, 13 9:49 pm Post subject:
Hello Find yourself some Victorian glasshouse manuals, they were into hot beds

Went

Joined: 19 Mar 2006
Posts: 6968

Posted: Tue Feb 19, 13 8:23 am Post subject:
Hello and welcome from Asturias...

Green Rosie

Joined: 13 May 2007
Posts: 10498
Location: Calvados, France

Posted: Tue Feb 19, 13 8:29 am Post subject:
Bonjour from sunny France - and it's been a while since I was able to say sunny

Bebo

Joined: 21 May 2007
Posts: 12590
Location: East Sussex

Posted: Tue Feb 19, 13 9:48 am Post subject:
Hello from almost equally claggy Sussex. Used to be a bloke on the allotment we had in London that built a mahoosive hot bed every year to grow pumpkins in. About four foot tall. Always had the best crop of squashes on the allotment.

mousjoos

Joined: 05 Jun 2006
Posts: 1986
Location: VERY Sunny SW France

Posted: Tue Feb 19, 13 5:17 pm Post subject:
Hello from sunny France (for the time being) how I miss dear old claggy Essex.........

Nicky cigreen

Joined: 25 Jun 2007
Posts: 9891
Location: Devon, uk

Posted: Tue Feb 19, 13 5:29 pm Post subject:
welcome

Liz in Ireland

Joined: 27 Jan 2009
Posts: 1287

Posted: Tue Feb 19, 13 10:29 pm Post subject:
Welcome from soggy Ireland

Mithril

Joined: 22 Jul 2011
Posts: 1755
Location: wessex

Posted: Wed Feb 20, 13 12:22 am Post subject:
Welcome

Nick

Joined: 02 Nov 2004
Posts: 34535
Location: Hereford

Posted: Wed Feb 20, 13 10:25 am Post subject:
We have tons of horse poo. There must be a way of building a bed above it to catch the heat, and still allowing fresh poo to be dumped there. Reckon you'd also want glass above to keep the heat?

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