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I heard he got it from a Bristolian skip!

Wire mesh? For example: https://www.ultimate-one.co.uk/premium-hdg-weld-mesh-panel-8x4-4x4-10g-244x122m-british-p-1523? & https://www.sure-green.com/wire-panel-8ft-4ft-12-gauge.html?

Sod that. I'd do it freestanding with more legs at the back.

If you're recall he asked for the render to match the existing.

Beam A, the one to the house... Your extension construction is timber frame isn't it? As in timber stud uprights and "hollows". You can't resin fix to that.

Go glass?

Frame is up: Still printing lots of PETG plastic bits to screw the base down:

How did you get so close to take those photos of the local property? 😉 What length is 1 to 4?

Mine's actually longer than it looks but it curves at the end: Yours looks healthier though possibly?

Couldn't agree more. I use it on the car, inside sills etc but can't help thinking it's not too environmentally friendly in this application i.e above plants we're going to eat.

I figured ladder beams / lattice trusses were potentailly the way to go. I've always fancied anyway making up a jig, just dropping cut parts in a welding them together. This site apparently has a good range of calculators. Can't find though what relates to calcuating box section trusses: https://jonochshorn.com/scholarship/calculators-st/index.html

It's not lime mortar existing is it?

The potted runners: & the dwarf beans tonight:

No I meant for my veg frame I'll pop a few gussets on at the corners. Doesn't need much. Tbh reckon it'll rot from the inside out down here. Did think about spraying inside the box sections with veg oil... ?

Thanks. It'll probably get some small sheet gussets pop rivetted at the junctions. Yeah, daft for many reasons. I still reckon pallets. I've done it and it works. Plus I'll have to give the box section back! 😂

DIY fertiliser then... I don't know about young nettle tops but these buggers went in roots and all after stinging me umpteen times through rubber gloves! Topped off with water from a rain butt then weighted with a paver and plastic lid from somewhere. Made a roof from a bit of old HV mat or does it want a "tight" cover / lid?

Tbh I've those shop bought runners in a pot and dwarf beans in another that SWMBO did and looking tonight they are pretty decimated! The copper band around each pot has done FA. Reckon in part as she used compost from the bin that wasn't that well rotted and imported the buggers with it. Can't remember which, (runner or dwarf pot) but I must have picked 10 slugs and snails off the plants. I've placed a beer trap in the centre of one pot, the worst affected. Whether they're salvageable I don't know. Pics tomorrow if there's anything left. So far the 50 runners from seed are doing ok and starting to climb. That pile of slugs above. Thought they were all dead but the pile I dumped on the ground, most seem to have come back to life. All spread out from where I dumped them.

It's like magic! How do they know where to find the string?

I see Lidl have Miracle-Gro & Tomorite on special this week: https://www.lidl.co.uk/p/indoor-outdoor-plants/miracle-gro-plant-feed-tomorite/p52364 Then Aldi from the 9th:

My first go at slugging with beer traps! Both traps inside the "Ring Of Ash": The tuna tin scored 1: The bean tin the other end though: I've emptied the tins for the birds/badger/hedgehogs. Is that what you do, and refill? Had to neck another God awful French beer mind!

Presumably you, "measure with the top tape"? "I know it doesn't feel like it luv, but the tape doesn't lie!"

Someone suggested I "feed" my beans. Reluctant to use a fertiliser what with any run off etc. Is Miracle Gro Organic any good?

The beans survived their first night! The cat was weird last night. I'd had words telling him it was his job to earn his keep, patrol etc and keep the vermin off. Looked like he'd had a hard night this morning.

A while back my mate gave me a load of 25mm box section. I think it's powder coated. This was old server racking. He's been on for ages about building a new workshop and has a mad idea for my lad to print him 120 - 140 PETG connectors. Then to clad the resultant frame in 18mm ply with self drill screws. It comes from him seeing the veg patch frame I've built from the box section using similar connectors. Seems a crap idea to me for a number of reasons. For one I feel MIG welding it would be better if at all. I can't see how he'd insulate it easily either. Gut feel is such thin walls would be "wobbly" to say the least. These are his sketches: Any thoughts? @Gus Potter?

Love it! 👍