Sunday, May 21, 2006

Catch up posting

Been a bit busy, so this is a catch up posting since the 14th.
My good friend Robert made me up the two "missing" brackets from a bit of aluminium sheet. Fitted first time, a very accurate workman is Robert.
Potted up all my Squash seedlings and sowed two more lots and some ridge cuccumbers in the heated propogator.
Have now sort of finished the sleeper base for the greenhouse. The last three foot section on the top layer, turned out to be one inch too deep at one end and then the rain arrived. Grrrrr.
Not quite sure how to deal with this hump, mulling it over while the rain continues.
Also the widthways internal sleeper to edge the end bed has to be dug in, it is cut to length. All much too slippery / sticky for digging or glass handling.
Had to buy a new tape measure as my old one, after nearly twenty years finally snapped in two.
Also bought a bundle of 2" x 1" timber to sit between the sleepers and the aluminium base frame. Imagine one of these [ brackets cut in half and turned clockwise ninety degrees, that is the profile of the metal, so these battens will allow the lip to droop.
Replacement mastic and automatic vent openers arrived from Kays quite promptly.

Something, slugs I think, had been at my peas on plot 17, added yet more slug pellets when I put up a cunning frame of reinforcing mesh for them to scramble on. Seems to have worked as they now have leaves again

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