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I've scored a possible daily supply of coffee grounds from some posh offices. From what I've read they can act as a slug deterrent.

Yes, these expresso pots certainly haven't gone as "soggy" as the recycled cardboard ones from Lidl did last year. I wonder what "commercial" composting entails?

Got half the bean holes dug with my knocked up tool that I chucked together from scrap. Hit a red ant nest who weren't too happy. Got a few stings for my efforts! The beans are more than ready to go in: Bear in mind here that I'm not a gardener! The cored hole is nom 3" dia and say 5 1/2" deep. Where they're dug, inside the rectangle of the galv frame, that's the relatively soft soil that I painstakingly sieved and layered with compost, ash, etc. Outside the galv frame is virgin flint country The little pots the beans are in now are nom 2 1/2" dia by 2 1/2" deep. I'm assuming to take the plants out of the pots and drop them in the holes. Maybe firmly pack round them with some bagged compost? Or should I leave in the pots and just drop in the hole, then again maybe just remove the bottom circle of card? Or run scissors up the side? A success rate of around 47/50. That was 47 new seeds and 3 saved. Not sure on whether it was new or old seeds that failed. When I say failed, all the seeds came up but I've 3 stragglers. A couple were pot bound and grew the wrong way up and the 3rd I think was maybe got at by a pigeon. Cheers

Traditional railway sleepers too. He's talking I think though about "ordinary" pressure then subsequently DIY treated timber. It won't last underground.

I believe Tom Jones has a similar set up on his place.

I've all the bits here to do a solar thermal install, really need to get on with it this year. Is it that you need a heat dump like a radiator to deal with the excess heat? @Marvin might be able to shed some light.

You're funny 👍 Go for it and see how long it lasts.

You must have any "timber" at least 6" off of the ground.

Paint it BLACK!

Search "aco drain to 110".

Venetian plaster looks lovely.

"Formers"! Wusses! Go wet room or go home! 😂

You want a secure as secure is fixing there. Yes wait for their details but if it were me I'd weld a really thick steel plate between the top and bottom flange and drill and tap into that. If you simply nut and bolt the nut could go loose over time and be inaccessible. I probably have the correct, large size HSS taps I could send you to borrow. I've M12, 14, 16, 20 up to M24 I think.

Drill a hole at the points in yellow and put some horizontal pegs in for them to put their cowboy hats 😉

Tbh, once it stopped stinking out the garden I forgot about it and never used it. The water in the bucket dried out last year. I'll approach with caution over the weekend. Might even set another bucket going.

Looking like I'll get all 50 beans sprouting here!

Could I... Fill the bath with soil then cover it in say bin liners. Then punch holes thru and pop in little lettuce, carrot, whatever seeds, (plants?).

That's not to be be sniffed at!

Rough trade! 😉

About half, so circa 25/50 of the runner beans have sprouted today including the 3 beans saved from last year. I need "soil" for my salad enclosure made from an old bath. I have a load of top soil from the patio excavation. I can sieve this but is there some way of "sterilising" it?

I can always print covers up if you make a hash of the joints.

50 bean seeds planted. 47 new seeds and 3 saved from last year. Rather than last years paper mache/compressed cardboard pots, I've used compostable espresso cups I got given for nothing. I just punched a single hole in the base. It's taken 13 days for the seedlings to appear as opposed to 9 days last year. Not helped by the cloudy and wet month we've had here along with some morning frosts still.

Just drill a tad over halfway, from the correct point both sides, it invariably lines up.

It wasn't ME who started this! A couple of members have been to my place and will likely agree the amount of work needed etc. After a hard 5 days last week I came home and as I pulled up in the drive could hear a digger. I walked round the back and SWMBO's first words were "Don't moan..." The house is surrounded by mismatched paths and patios in some cases patios over cracked patios! The common theme is that they either slope towards the house, are higher than the internal floor levels...or both! 😂 Really it all needs to come up. Anyway...we'd discussed extending the patio area a few weeks back. I suggested doing the opposite side of the house first so we could store various materials out of sight, sort the drains etc. It would appear that fell on deaf ears. On a whim she'd gotten her brother with his digger to, well...start digging! Various reptiles & amphibians appeared and were safely relocated. He then dislodged an old clay soil pipe along with the bees nest and got stung. The "Don't moan..." was because he'd also found the oil pipe! 😂 I did a 180 on the path and shot down to Screwfix for a few 10mm pipe couplers. Been pegging out the excavation tonight using the laser to see what levels I have. Paving slabs are coming free hopefully. Aiming for this to be as cheap as possible.

+1. No problems with the BG one I fitted to the wall outside. Saying that I haven't wired it up yet...