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Mistress Rose

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Posted: Sun Mar 21, 21 9:56 am Post subject:
I am surprised plants will tolerate strong chilli, as I would have thought it would burn tender seedlings or inhibit seeds from growing.

Slim

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Location: New England (In the US of A)

Posted: Sun Mar 21, 21 10:07 am Post subject:
It doesn't even bother birds. It evolved specifically to irritate mammals!

dpack

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Location: yes

Posted: Sun Mar 21, 21 11:13 am Post subject:
a neat way to make chums with a parrot or macaw is to give it a big strong hot chilli

sgt.colon

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

Posted: Sun Mar 21, 21 7:31 pm Post subject:

Slim wrote:

It doesn't even bother birds. It evolved specifically to irritate mammals!

And apparently humans are the only mammals that enjoy the burn.

Mistress Rose

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Posted: Mon Mar 22, 21 8:04 am Post subject:
How odd. Personally I don't, and can't tolerate it.

Shan

Joined: 13 Jan 2009
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Location: South Wales

Posted: Mon Mar 22, 21 9:05 am Post subject:
I am addicted.

Nick

Joined: 02 Nov 2004
Posts: 34535
Location: Hereford

Posted: Mon Mar 22, 21 3:54 pm Post subject:

sgt.colon wrote:

Nick wrote:

Yeah. Won't be sharing mine.

Come one Nick, you know sharing is caring.

2 of six. Still being filled with a mixture of domestic compost, manure, bought in compost and soil.

Each bed is 13 foot long, roughly 2 foot high and 4.5 foot wide. Steel tubes inside some of them to provide anchor sites for blue pipe for mesh or polythene, or bamboo/willow for beans and such.

Shan

Joined: 13 Jan 2009
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Location: South Wales

Posted: Mon Mar 22, 21 4:31 pm Post subject:
I'd line the sides so you don't have soil escaping between the board gaps - believe me, they get bigger with time... or maybe, that's just J's carpentry....

dpack

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Posted: Mon Mar 22, 21 4:32 pm Post subject:
nice

Nick

Joined: 02 Nov 2004
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Location: Hereford

Posted: Mon Mar 22, 21 4:51 pm Post subject:

Shan wrote:

I'd line the sides so you don't have soil escaping between the board gaps - believe me, they get bigger with time... or maybe, that's just J's carpentry....

Yeah, it's on the list of things to do. I think just a double layer of polythene (it's not thick), stapled there should last long enough.

dpack

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Posted: Mon Mar 22, 21 6:49 pm Post subject:

out of uv from sunlight polythene is pretty stable if you dont poke it

owt over 250 gm will do fine for liners

about as thick as a cheap sous vide bag is an odd measurement but perhaps explanatory

polythene 500 gm has done my sides liner for the raised border thing for 12 years, it will probably see me out , overkill

or it won't matter as i am developing a cornish bank

as your wood is untreated is a liner required?

i only use them if the wood is deliberately toxic to separate it from the soil, liners do not reduce and sometimes encourage rot in untreated wood( a scorching with a blowtorch (or other more amusing means) is fun and good practice with naked untreated wood, the tars and resins from toasted softwoods with fewer "splinters" repels water and vermin, and it is cheap and fun to do)

under engineer cleverly, if a bit of soil escapes so what?

on balance i would not go for liner unless the "container" was toxic timber

Nick

Joined: 02 Nov 2004
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Location: Hereford

Posted: Mon Mar 22, 21 7:59 pm Post subject:

The alternative quick and simple plan is I’ve some pine cladding type boards and some lengths of decking. Nailed over the joints on the outside would solve both issues.

I need another trailer load of compost anyway so no rush.

Local place allows you to turn up with *any* trailer. £20 for a large one, £10 for a small one. They laughed at my SiL and filled it for free because it was only 8x5. Big recycling place and it’s cash for the operatives, apparently. Either way, it’s good stuff of slightly alkaline and a little low on nitrogen according to the experts at the local allotments. I have tons of horse shit and fermenting hay, which is apparently the answer. We shall see.

Treacodactyl
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Posted: Mon Mar 22, 21 8:00 pm Post subject:
I feel a tad inadequate. I only have one bath laying about the garden and that's far more rusty.

Shan

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

Posted: Mon Mar 22, 21 8:31 pm Post subject:
I'm slightly curious as to how he ended up with so many bath tubs lying around?

Nick

Joined: 02 Nov 2004
Posts: 34535
Location: Hereford

Posted: Mon Mar 22, 21 8:44 pm Post subject:
We have four One came from our bathroom during a refit. The others are handy pig troughs, runner bean beds and such. They’ve just ... accumulated. I’m particularly fond of the avocado one.

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