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I've actually been overtaken on the slow, meandering path...

That's 50/50 now, just looked. I used either Wickes own compost or whatever the well known make is that they do. Water from the rain butt. Interesting theories on why the size differences. I thought it was because I'd put the seeds in different ways up. Someone else said quality & amount of the soil in the pot. The one I favour is plant pheromones. The first plants give something off to delay the other's growth. The risk being a predator comes along and wolfs the lot or a bad weather event destroys them all in one hit. I need to get these in quick 'ish as they're rooting out the bottom now: Struggling with getting their "enclosure" ready. These things are damn heavy. Got to do some digging to get them in level. I'll probably need the 2 high on the low sides. I'll end up with an area nom. 2.6 x 5.2m to start with and I'll clear that of all vegetation and relocate any inhabitants. Got the reel of 9x1 copper so as aforementioned I'm going to run two loops around the sleepers and connect a battery!

You can "age" shiny zinc surfaces. Various DIY methods. For example: https://www.creeklinehouse.com/how-to-age-galvanized-metal-containers/

40mm, no chance! I've just dug the reel out and it's not 25x3 but 9x1! Could have sworn there's a reel of bigger stuff somewhere here. Unlike me to exaggerate about size...

I've a reel of copper bus bar tape, I think it's 25x3. Will dig it out and check. Figuring to tack it to the sleepers with copper nails. Biggest worry is if it shorts during wet weather and becomes ineffective.

This is my what my 16 to 15mm are like:

2 transistor FM bugs here. The school got quite upset and threatened me with the 1948 Wireless Telegraphy Act.

47/50 beans: Shifted all the sleepers: Unscrewed / cut off the screws in them: Each is nom 2.6m long. The veg patch will thus be nom 5.2m wide. The rough plan is this: Level sleepers surrounding the beans. A 25mm square box section frame, put together with 3D printed connectors. This to be meshed over to deter the rabbits, deer, pigeons etc but let the pollinators through. Then a close spaced, 2 copper wire "loop" attached to a battery, possibly solar charged. This for a slug/snail barrier as seen all over YouTube. Not sure how the stripped copper wire will fare as in going green and tarnishing? Periodic cleaning? Maybe too a 25x3 copper strip all the way round the base frame as well. Or do away with the wires and have 2 copper strips on the vertical side with a slight gap between and connect that to the battery?

Nothing worse I imagine than the Chablis being under chilled!

Don't you mean supressed? 😂

How about AstroTurf?

Conifers burn really well!

You gardening types and your in jokes! 😂

Reckon I need to be planting these soon'ish. Haven't even done my sleeper surround yet! For now I think I'll just "fence" off the bean area. Plan is burn off the rest of the conifers tonight then I'll have an area of "dead" ground I can haul the sleepers over to and sort them into light/heavy, straight etc. That'll free up the lawn where they're currently sat. Incinerator loaded, conifers chopped into bite sized bits! 1 can British Bulldog, one of Spirit of Kent, I'm partially loaded:

Sorry?

42/50:

It'll be fine with a top coat!

I bet you do Sudoku? 😂

Not any more! This is to be my sleeper staging area! Just burnt off masses of the neighbour's invasive ground ivy I ripped up. Left the conifers to dry out a bit:

Ash is to sprinkle. I'm not poisoning everything else with pellets.

I'm making a garden incinerator, in part for some wood ash. To a design from the Crop Protection Agency: That's the lid on top from my now burnt out, cheapo incinerator. Just keeping a bit of the rain out. I've a big sheet of "diamond" pattern reinforcing mesh and a bunch of long M10, black bolts for the grid etc.

Right or wrong I've started stringing the frame with coir rope. Round turn and two half hitches top and bottom. I've left a 6" tail at the bottom:

What variety are they out of interest? Mine are Czar and the been seed is pure white.

Reaching for the sky! Just over the 100mm, the tallest one here so far:

26/50 at the mo on the runner bean front. Plan tomorrow is finish the 50-gal drum incinerator as a source of wood ash I'll keep to sprinkle round the beans as a slug deterrent.