15-08-2014 12:28 PM
The bath turned out to be useless as a planter & will soon be full of rainwater if I can find an imperial small sink plug. Many of the tyres have been made into an unsuccessful (so far) compost bin thing, 3 have gone over to permanent rhubarb production
BUT....
15-08-2014 12:33 PM
I grew loads of spuds in old giant farm fertilizer crane sacks, the leaves couldn't take the heatwave but even so, tons of spuds 🙂
BUT....
THE PEA HARVEST
....was going to be huge until the slugs found it, I got a pocket full though 🙂
Its all down to the carrots & tomatoes now
Anyone else surviving in this land of forgotten etc. etc.?
17-03-2015 12:39 PM
Hmmm well it seems to be 2015, have tipped all the old muck out of the sacks & put new in. This year: spuds 1 (in) spuds 2 (nearly chitted) leeks, onions & tomatoes ANNND its just possible the rhubarb will pull through despite not being a tyre plant. Now to think of a thread idea
12-08-2015 3:51 PM
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22-08-2015 2:27 PM
@danlyncand wrote:
Best of luck! My tomatoes are never ready till September, its too cold here. Potatoes all died off in the heatwave, plenty of small ones now lol
Thank you. You too.
When should I check the potatoes, when the leaf vine thingy dies?
23-08-2015 1:34 PM
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07-09-2015 2:58 PM
Thank you. I might try a tyre if I ever see an old one somewhere
08-11-2015 10:32 AM
Garages give them away 😉 it costs 13p each to scrap them, or something like that so they'll usually stop what they're doing and help you load them up. Of course, if you get them now, they'll be standing about all Christmas and become a water-feature in the "hands" of the local animal population, but I like mine ready and full of soil by January. Only, actually, I grew a load actually in the ground this year and they're huge that way (Y)
08-11-2015 10:34 AM
The bath has been taken away :))))) and replaced with 7 chickens, much more productive!
14-12-2015 2:48 PM
Do you live on a farm?
13-02-2016 11:42 AM
Not exactly, I live in an old farmhouse where several farms meet so I can get away with a few chicks 🙂 Unforch there are only 5 left now, its rained so much that their pen turned to mud so I let them out and mr fox was quick to notice. Even worse, it wasn't the one in 1980s white socks and burgundy suit out of the foxy bingo adds. This year's gardening attempt is already underway but I best start another thread as its no longer 2014 🙂