Bugger, I had a table/ bench similar to those you get in pub gardens delivered here last week in a box 7'x2'x18" that would have been ideal.......... I took it to the local dump
I don't think so, knew someone who did it a few years ago just to save a few bob (and his wife didn't give a ship once she for once could live without begging for weekly pocket money) unfortunately, he forgot to sign the form so he sat in a fridge for months as nobody would pay for the funeral
That works only if you die of something interesting.
The days of anatomy students slaving over a body oozing formalin are long gone.
Not kidding, I had three allotments and used to work out how many seed potatoes I would need by mapping out the plot so not one was wasted.
No. Doesn't seem to make any difference...
More and more - I think now that everyone is on the peat free bandwagon there's a lot of mediocre alternatives being offered out there.
There are some really rubbish ones out there ..some of them are clearly just half composted with bits of wood and plastic in them. I had one own label bag last year, from a well known DIY Store, that actually went mouldy in the bag and the seeds germinated but then withered before they were ready to prick out - I wonder what is left in there in the way of herbicides ? Most of them are made from a proportion of what the councils collect in garden bags and bins.
I've read things like 'with every breath you take in one oxygen atom that was breathed by Julius Caesar'. I guess that would have to be a rounded up average, and I wonder whether anyone has actually done any calculations. If true it would apply to anyone who lived a similarly active length of life at around that time. (I think much oxygen spends a long time deep in the oceans, so the further back you go the less of this resource is available)
Bandwagon?
However... there are an infinite number of plans...
Yes I’m seriously going to do that next year. We have lots of compost and leaf mould. It just needs a little prep.
Yes I’ve found nails and bits of plastic in some and on occasion the bag has smelt awful.
That's why the planning is the important bit, not the plan. If your planning is good, when things don't go to plan you already have the knowledge/info. to work a solution.
Yes. This year I bought my usual compost from a large retailer.. It was rubbish.. most of the seeds I planted either failed to germinate, or wilted and died after germination.. Had to reorder tomatoes, peppers, courgettes, cucumbers, runner beans, broad beans etc. So my seed bill for this year has doubled... Similar happened some years ago. A local (well known) profesional gardener lost most of his chrisanth cuttings, he phoned to warn me not to use the compost I had bought from the allotment association. The "manufacturer" had used grass cuttings from sport and playing fields in the compost mix.. The grass had been treated with a fertilizer that had a broad leaf weed killer added.. Result was that anything with broad leaves were killed when planted in it... I've been wondering if this is happening again.
