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Shan

Joined: 13 Jan 2009
Posts: 9075
Location: South Wales

Posted: Mon Mar 22, 21 8:54 pm Post subject:
How do they just accumulate? It's not like they breed or charge about in herds or flocks...

Slim

Joined: 05 Mar 2006
Posts: 6614
Location: New England (In the US of A)

Posted: Mon Mar 22, 21 10:05 pm Post subject:
You haven't even bothered to turn one into a redneck hot tub?

Nick

Joined: 02 Nov 2004
Posts: 34535
Location: Hereford

Posted: Mon Mar 22, 21 10:11 pm Post subject:

Slim wrote:

You haven't even bothered to turn one into a redneck hot tub?

Possibly my biggest achievement in lock down was getting running water to the property.

As for a hot tub, the wife would kill for one. I can’t imagine anything worse.

I’ve seen IBCs used as one. Classic.

As for baths. Farmers tend to save them as water troughs as they get thrown out or whatever. The field three down from us had loads in. We ... acquired a couple when the original owner did a bunk for tax evasion.

Mistress Rose

Joined: 21 Jul 2011
Posts: 16004

Posted: Tue Mar 23, 21 8:13 am Post subject:
You might find those beds are a bit wide to work easily from the sides. We started with beds about that size, but have reduced the width to about 1m so that it is easier to reach the middle, otherwise you have to stand on the bed, or get a bit of a hollow in the middle when you are trying to dig from the sides.

sgt.colon

Joined: 27 Jul 2009
Posts: 7380
Location: Just south of north.

Posted: Tue Mar 23, 21 8:35 am Post subject:
Looking good Nick. I like how you have roped the dog in to helping as well. Have you decided what you are going to grow in them?

Slim

Joined: 05 Mar 2006
Posts: 6614
Location: New England (In the US of A)

Posted: Tue Mar 23, 21 10:10 am Post subject:
You think he's just suddenly taking up an interest in growing in raised beds? Clearly they're that large to hide bodies in. Hence the dog coming to check out odors before they're fully masked by compost

Nick

Joined: 02 Nov 2004
Posts: 34535
Location: Hereford

Posted: Tue Mar 23, 21 10:29 am Post subject:

Slim wrote:

You think he's just suddenly taking up an interest in growing in raised beds?
Clearly they're that large to hide bodies in. Hence the dog coming to check out odors before they're fully masked by compost

No. This is wrong. A LIE.

My kids have left home. And decided not to take their phones with them. That's what happened.

Nick

Joined: 02 Nov 2004
Posts: 34535
Location: Hereford

Posted: Tue Mar 23, 21 10:34 am Post subject:

sgt.colon wrote:

Looking good Nick. I like how you have roped the dog in to helping as well.

Have you decided what you are going to grow in them?

Well. Beans (runners and French), peas, onions, sweetcorn, red cabbage and rocket were winners last year. I've added in beetroot, leeks and pak choi into the mix so far. Also some spuds for one of the heavier beds, to break it up a bit. And strawberries and cut flowers in one. Baths get used for sweetpeas, successfully. Plus the asparagus bed, and I appear to have bought, on Shan's hearty reccomendation, some Jerusalem Artichokes. They'll go in a bath, too, I suspect. Last time I planted them we got rid of them eventually, by selling the house.

Greenhouse is for tomatoes and chillies. My usual supplier has let me down this year, so I'm having to plant my own.

ETA. Obviously, I’ll be planting far too many courgette plants.

Last edited by Nick on Tue Mar 23, 21 9:15 pm; edited 1 time in total

Nick

Joined: 02 Nov 2004
Posts: 34535
Location: Hereford

Posted: Tue Mar 23, 21 10:35 am Post subject:

Mistress Rose wrote:

You might find those beds are a bit wide to work easily from the sides. We started with beds about that size, but have reduced the width to about 1m so that it is easier to reach the middle, otherwise you have to stand on the bed, or get a bit of a hollow in the middle when you are trying to dig from the sides.

Yeah, they're about the widest we can easily manage, but I also have a handy pair of planks that can sit over, as a bridge if needed. We ran one double length bed last year, I've just added several more similar (actually, slightly narrower).

Shan

Joined: 13 Jan 2009
Posts: 9075
Location: South Wales

Posted: Tue Mar 23, 21 10:39 am Post subject:

Nick wrote:

sgt.colon wrote:

Looking good Nick. I like how you have roped the dog in to helping as well.

Have you decided what you are going to grow in them?

You're 'special'. I wouldn't wish them on anyone else.

Nick

Joined: 02 Nov 2004
Posts: 34535
Location: Hereford

Posted: Tue Mar 23, 21 10:43 am Post subject:

Shan wrote:

Nick wrote:

sgt.colon wrote:

Looking good Nick. I like how you have roped the dog in to helping as well.

Have you decided what you are going to grow in them?

You're 'special'. I wouldn't wish them on anyone else.

They are the vegetable that keeps on giving. Louise will enjoy them immensely.

dpack

Joined: 02 Jul 2005
Posts: 46249
Location: yes

Posted: Tue Mar 23, 21 10:46 am Post subject:

bath tubs are ace, beds or troughs or dark cloches for forcing asparagus to give the white blanched delicate version

good for cave rhubarb as well

done hillbilly hot tub, i preferred the sauna/spring combo but a soak in warm water in a blizzard was rather nice

that was direct heating of a steel bath with a tray fire and a plank to sit on as the base got a bit warm or the water got cold

i have seen them made by using a central heating radiator over a fire and convection heating via plughole and overflow which allows for using plastic ones as well as metal ones

naked in a pot with a fire under it, in a blizzard does not sound relaxing but it is oddly pleasant

Shan

Joined: 13 Jan 2009
Posts: 9075
Location: South Wales

Posted: Tue Mar 23, 21 11:01 am Post subject:

Nick wrote:

Shan wrote:

Nick wrote:

sgt.colon wrote:

Looking good Nick. I like how you have roped the dog in to helping as well.

Have you decided what you are going to grow in them?

You're 'special'. I wouldn't wish them on anyone else.

They are the vegetable that keeps on giving. Louise will enjoy them immensely.

Self generated tub bubbles?

Nick

Joined: 02 Nov 2004
Posts: 34535
Location: Hereford

Posted: Tue Mar 23, 21 11:39 am Post subject:

Shan wrote:

Nick wrote:

Shan wrote:

Nick wrote:

sgt.colon wrote:

Looking good Nick. I like how you have roped the dog in to helping as well.

Have you decided what you are going to grow in them?

You're 'special'. I wouldn't wish them on anyone else.

They are the vegetable that keeps on giving. Louise will enjoy them immensely.

Self generated tub bubbles?

Redneck jacuzzi.

Now then. Poly tunnel. We’ve a space for one. Lots of frames on ebay. Are replacement skins easily available off the roll, to fit any size?

gz

Joined: 23 Jan 2009
Posts: 8962
Location: Ayrshire, Scotland

Posted: Tue Mar 23, 21 12:04 pm Post subject:
We will have to have our next skillshare with you Nick! When I had a garden with lots of beds they were 4 foot by 20 foot, with lawnmower wide paths. (24 beds). Wide enough to grow a decent amount, and have alkathene pipe and polythene mini polytunnels. (A la Titchmarsh) My DiL uses baths for growing in their allotment polytunnel...they have problems with Mares Tail (equisetum).

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