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Love them raw or cooked. I feel I'll be giving lots away!

Or perhaps an old Etonian school chum.

I presume you've written to your MP?

When I mentioned the slug SWMBO came out with an indignant "Well, I used half the soil for the pots from the compost bin and half from a bought compost bag!" As though by uttering words, however insane it makes it all better. 😂

Aside from the 50 Czar runners I've got going, I got some other runners and dwarf bean plants for my birthday. Tbh they were well along and needed to go in. SWMBO found a couple of pots and some canes as a temporary home. Crack of dawn this morning I found one 'orrible grey slug! Soon flicked him off. I'm trying a band of 9x1 copper on each pot tonight. Badly soldered into hoops and held on by duct tape whilst the CT1 sets!

Fire good.

Now build yourself a rustic log store so you've some dryer wood ready.

I'd be drilling holes with a bfo spade bit, like 32mm. More surface area for whatever to soak in .

Any pics, the stove glowing in the dark cabin etc? Got that CO alarm yet?

There's a few videos on YouTube where a guy drills lots of holes and fills with cooking oil. Once soaked in he sets fire to the stump.

John Wyndham foresaw it...

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: