>>2895

this thread might have some useful info >>/poof/6294

Nothing wrong with a nice pair of wellies.

>>2900

True enough, especially considering even really quite good ones are cheap. But I don't think I'd want to wear them all day, nor would I hike in them. Though plenty of farmlads do wear them for 12+ hours at a time so what do I know.

>>2901
I've got through so many wellies, couple of pairs a year or more.
I now rate my swampmasters, which are polyurethane and so far, so good. more expensive than regular dunlops or whatever, but 8 months in and they're surviving. Mud season is almost over - dust season will be next, and I'll be back in dealer boots.

>>2902

I've had Dunlop Purofort's for a long time now, they're about 60 quid but have lasted about three years - admittedly I don't do hard graft in them, just swanning about moors and muddy forest floors with maybe a couple of hours of proper work every few days. But either way they've lasted a good 15k miles.

>Do I just throw some grass seeds down and risk ecolads wrath?
Not if you're after zero maintenance. Grass needs cutting multiple times a year. Putting down a sheet for a month or two to kill off any grass then just chucking down wildflower seeds would reduce the maintenance to maybe strimming it a bit in Autumn.

Really though you'd have to be in a fairly posh place for the neighbours to actively object.

My local council has recently discovered that a badly overgrown verge is socially acceptable if you rebrand it as a "wildflower meadow". The seeds are cheap as chips, wildflowers actively prefer poor soil and it only needs mowing a couple of times a year in late summer and autumn.

Mix in a bit of paving and you're sorted.

>>2886
That would be a question for when I settle on a place. At the moment I'm just trying to understand feasibility and the kind of garden I'd be looking to either buy, make or avoid.

The opposite end of the spectrum is gardens where someone has paved over the whole thing. That feels like a design that would kill me in the summer so would ripping that up be a simple job or do I need to fart about with the topsoil?

>>2890
>>2891
Interesting, if I wanted to have a barbeque at some point or just catch some rays would I merely need to mow it or do I need to keep a bit of grass?

>>2892
I'd suggest keeping a small patio to put your barbecue/sun lounger on and turning the rest over to wildflowers. Reduced heat and maintenance but still some stability. The added bonus of wildflowers is that they don't particularly like rich soil, you can throw down some of the cheapest and they'll thrive.

>>2891
There have been quite a few initiatives the last five or six years to spread wildflower seeds on verges and the like.

Pretty sure those are bum seeds. You'll want to plant both of them in your bum at your earliest possible convenience.

>>2883
Does that mean he would grow another bum? That would be awkward.

>>2633

The symbiotic life cycle is weird, makes you understand better the weird thoughts the Greeks had about where animals came from when you consider how obsessed they were with figs.

I'm personally more fascinated by the variants of parasitic wasp. Particularly the ones that subvert the natural cycle of plants by excreating chemicals turning the seeds and fruit into an armoured shell for them to live in. (If you've ever seen an oak tree drop those spikey wooden balls with their acorns. That is what those are).

>>2634

I think we can all agree that wasps are proper wrong'uns.

>>2635

racist.

My pear tree has the same. I worked out it's some kind of fungus. The spores are released in autumn and colonise fir trees nearby where the survive the winter, and then re-infect your pear tree when new leaves grow in spring. The thing to do is to break the cycle by pulling off the spores now before they can blow back into the fir trees.

>>2880
It's Gymnosporangium sabinae, "pear rust". >>2629 was fairly close.
https://www.rhs.org.uk/advice/profile?pid=236

>Come winter will they die from the cold?
The first frost will probably kill them.
This map should give you some idea when that is
https://www.plantmaps.com/interactive-united-kingdom-first-frost-date-map.php
I doubt a greenhouse will keep them alive, you'll have to bring them indoors, though most people in this country just compost them then start new plants each Spring.

>>2878
I love that site - thanks.

>>2877
Just bring them indoors and make sure they're near a window - might survive..

If you're in one of those placess, cost ceases to matter. it's funnny, even asking the question marks as you fun :)

>>2875
I was thinking of getting into the landscape gardening game and making fat stacks of cash off of ostentatious oligarchs. Seems like a pretty cosy job.

>>2868
Thanks, that's all I really needed to know. The neighbours actively don't give a fuck.

>>2869

Several lads on the uk420 forums who actually were growing cannabis have written about their experience of getting busted. The common description is "the police knocked on the door, they were polite but firm, they took my plants and growlights but didn't trash the place, I got a summons to the Magistrates court and ended up with a £250 fine". It's clearly not a particularly high priority for anyone.

>>2867
No you're right, obviously the way the police work is that after they have inspected a grow site to see a person is growing tomatoes, if the next day their helicopter picks up a heat signature from the same address they'll immediately assume it's cannabis and send a squad to raid it. FFS.

>>2870
My brother got busted many many years ago - similar experience. I was more gutted about the fact he had borrowed all my (high quality) lighting gear and they took it.

>>2870

utopians are big fans of a stupified populace of state dependent serfs

>>2834
My resident ecological expert says these are definitely moth or butterfly eggs, but its not possible to tell what type until they hatch.

Sure - a bit of wood cut to fit and tied around will be completely fine. Should last a decade or so.
I might be tempted by a few more 2" diameter holes in the sides, if you live somewhere moist, or I think you'll get slime rather than compost.

>>2824
I just used some supermarket freezerbags, that's probably the bigger issue.

>>2825
I buy spawn from here:
https://mushroombox.co.uk/index.php?main_page=index&cPath=2

I wouldn't bet on this lasting months though, you tend to get a big drop in yield after the first flush or two.

>>2826
The site above sells bags too, but the Chinesium ebay ones work well enough for me. Definitely worth it over freezerbags though.

>>2824
Those look really good mate - where do you put the boxes normally?

>>2828
On the floor of my spare room next to my airing cupboard.

>>2824
That looks amazing, well done.

>>2813
Doesn't matter if you "see" or not, edgelad. It's an image of child abuse under UK law and given the implied rape, a severely punishable one.

>>2816

Amusingly if she was married it wouldn't be (although it'd still be illegal to distribute or publish). The law really sometimes is an ass.

For the avoidance of doubt, the Canadian authorities examined it and determined it did not amount to CP. Either way, it's still casual bint-hatery to imply that the appropriate thing to do to a woman who disagrees with you is to rape her, and that implication alone is enough to get our benevolent dictator into serious trouble.

>>2819
>the Canadian authorities examined it and determined it did not amount to CP

An establishment cover up of CP? Who'd have thunked it?

>>2819
The Canadian authorities are not our authorities.

They're far too small to handle. Best to pull some out (try repotting them if you really want) for space so the roots of the remaining ones don't get tangled then wait until they're a lot sturdier before repotting the them.

>>2802
Thanks for the response.

>Best to pull some out
So pull them out with my fingers or dig them out?

> (try repotting them if you really want)
So you mean pull them out and rearrange in the same pot to space them out a bit?

I don't know what I'm doing

>>2803

If you're going to just thin them out then yes use your fingers. If you're going to try to repot them then use something long and thin and scoopy to try and pull out a plug of soil without disturbing the root (there's probably only one per seedling at this point) too much. Not in the same pot. If you've only got the one pot then just thin them out, don't rearrange them as you'll only end up disturbing the others while potentially killing the ones you do move. How many thyme plants do you need, anyway? Even one can grow to quite a substantial size.

The rim of that pot is a bit too high so you've ended up with some really leggy seedlings growing as tall as they can to catch the sun over the edge. Something to consider for next time*.

*If this happens with anything solanaceae (tomatoes, chillies, peppers, some others) it can be a good thing as they'll put out more roots if you pile soil around their exposed stalks.

Is there some reason why you couldn't leave the seeds together and grow a type of mega-thyme? Gently twist the stalks around one another to create a thick, entwined trunk; then further up encourage each seperate plant out to its own section?

I'm thinking competition of resources might trouble the roots. Could you affect an even distribution of minerals across a large space to mitigate this risk? Or perhaps create borders between seeds, so route growth can be directed away from the others.

Completely unrelated - a while ago i noticed nettles have a tendancy to grow new shoots at about a 90 degree angle from one another. How hard do you suppose it would be to graft sections of two nettles, as pictured? You could have an entire wall latticed with nettles, full of aphids and ant colonies.

>>2797

I suspect the Wickes stuff has been compressed in some way that they can label the quantity in the bag as 50l.

>>2798
Is it going to swell up when it gets wet? There are lots of tiny holes in the bag so I'd assume not.

Shop brands are packed in super tight, the more you can fit on a single pallet the lower your shipping/storage/shopfloor costs are going to be.

Water is a real problem with this type of compost, because if it gets wet while it's compacted it'll stay compacted. You really need to give it a good fluffing up while it's still dry before you can use it. (A lot of people make this mistake with growbags, you need to break up all the compost inside before you even cut them open)

I'll get a belljar soon to help protect any future displays from dust and prospective occupants.

Are you a serial killer? Because your windowsill makes you look like a serial killer.

How does your moss stay so fresh? I would assume it would die. Also have you thought about investing in a plant pot?

>>2789
I thought the same, so i put it in my bathroom which is often steamy and fairly moist with condensation from the window - It's been going since last autumn i think. It's a shame to have removed it but i don't really want that many grubs in my house.

Pictured gave me the idea - though i'm now wondering if it would become likewise infested.

>>2788
They were dead when i found them.

>>2790

I suspect moss mats are probably deeply impractical in reality, highly slimy and your feet end up dirtier than when you started. I think it is one of those ideas that people buy because of the romance of it but turns out to be in reality awful.