26 January 2024
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Here is another of those sculptures from RHS Rosemoor. This one is by Ben Cox: What I particularly liked about this one was how many identifiable elements, like trowels, chisels, spanners and chains, have been worked in so there is … Continue reading
19 September 2022
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Over the past few months I’ve accumulated quite a collection of old nails, pulled from pallets and other collected wood. Typically, they are a bit rusty and not quite factory fresh but, having discarded all the visibly bent and distorted … Continue reading
9 January 2020
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I love having my toolboxes and a core set of my tools up with me. It means I can get creative with some DIY projects: We bought a large can of grapefruit the other day and it turns out it … Continue reading
22 February 2013
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Our gardening season has reached the point where our first seedlings (various tomato varieties) need potting up and the queue to be in the second batch of seeds to get started is beginning to grow quite long. Today we took … Continue reading
28 June 2011
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Aha! While tidying a pile of books, I found a quote I had been wanting to share after discovering a snowstorm of degrading plastic bag in my desk drawer earlier in the month: “Biodegradable plastic can be a well-intentioned nightmare, … Continue reading
13 June 2011
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A pox on biodegradable plastic bags. I delved into my desk drawer this morning and not only extracted the folder I wanted but also a snowstorm of plastic flakes from one that had partially degraded. As more bags get made … Continue reading
24 November 2010
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Advice received from the Selfsufficientish forum suggested that there was a danger of the conditions at the bottom of the pots turning anaerobic (ie. airless) because of being constantly wet and fermenting to produce toxins that might harm the plants. … Continue reading
19 November 2010
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This is my latest bit of garden handiwork. It is a series of self watering plant pots made from old milk cartons. I simply cut them round just below the handle and then inserted the inverted top (lid removed) into … Continue reading
24 July 2010
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A couple of years ago, I wrote several times about my attempts to use a product called Droughtplug, a siphonation system for reusing grey water. At the time, it wasn’t hugely successful because we lived in a ground floor flat; … Continue reading
26 June 2008
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You may recall me writing about a product called the Droughtplug Recycling Kit, to which I gave a relatively poor review. I did manage to get slightly greater success but then, after that, I had another day when it hardly … Continue reading