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mrutty

Joined: 28 Oct 2004
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Posted: Sun Feb 06, 05 1:24 am Post subject:
A good soak once a week is better than a sprinkle everyday. It encourages the roots to go down to seek water making the plants stronger.

wellington womble

Joined: 08 Nov 2004
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Location: East Midlands

Posted: Sun Feb 06, 05 1:50 pm Post subject:
OK, pots every day and soaker hose for the vege's once a week (Sundays, I expect!) Never go to Jewsons for anything - they are horrendously expensive, even with trade discount. We mostly use a local guy, who unusually for a little guy against a big chain, is cheaper, although not surprisingly better service.

judyofthewoods

Joined: 29 Jan 2005
Posts: 804
Location: Pembrokeshire

Posted: Sun Feb 06, 05 2:15 pm Post subject:
Yes, I am also lucky to have a family run agricultural ironmongers close by, who is actually cheaper than anyone around by a long shot, its one of a dying breed of old fashioned ironmongers, where you can buy nails by the pound, a single nut and bolt without ten times its weight in packaging.

Treacodactyl
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Posted: Sun Feb 06, 05 2:20 pm Post subject:

wellington womble wrote:

Never go to Jewsons for anything - they are horrendously expensive, even with trade discount. We mostly use a local guy, who unusually for a little guy against a big chain, is cheaper, although not surprisingly better service.

Yes, some of the prices are very high in Builders merchants and the discounts regular people get can be vast. Sometimes you seem to get them and sometimes you don't.

Now I go in in dirty clothes, take my belt out of my trousers so they're falling down and stick a copy of the Sun on my car dash.

wellington womble

Joined: 08 Nov 2004
Posts: 15051
Location: East Midlands

Posted: Sun Feb 06, 05 4:53 pm Post subject:
do you do that backwards whistle and shake your head when they tell you how much. I reckon that gets you at least 20 percent off on its own! Himself reckons they teach this at plumbing school, along with things like 'it's gonna cost you, guv'nor'

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