During that very hot spell we had, my fern died off. It has made quite a come back since then. 17th August it was pushing up some new shoots or fronds: 19th and 20th respectively: 21st and then jump to today the 25th August:
I got the Volvo out and made some ramps to get it up so that I might see if taking the exhaust off was a good plan or not. The hole in the exhaust is worse since I picked at it. I also had a good dig round the wheel arch, sill and floor plan joint, now there is a massive hole: The car has gone in for a quote to repair…. could be the end for the Volvo.
I fitted the window from the other green house to ours, so that it would auto-open based on the internal temperature. I had to get a piece of the ridge extrusion as that is the other half of the hinge. I shall now refit the old window in another place as a manual alternative. I also managed to cut the pane of glass or the back center bit that matches to the two roof angles in the middle. I traced out on some card the green house roof angle, then just by eye scored the glass and it broke perfectly.
Dad gave me a couple more agaves earlier in the year, last night I re-potted them into larger pots as one had started to look a little sad. I’d been meaning to do it for ages, so this was not too soon. I also planted out the three sallows, the tomato and also put the spider plant into a pot and brought it inside. The larger one has grown quite a lot I think. Here is my previous post about it: https://bhhh.co.uk/agave/
I need to cut some of the glass from the green house that I picked up the other day (post here https://bhhh.co.uk/another-green-house/). So I got myself a glass cutter, scorer thing from Screwfix. Then I proceeded to break a small pain of glass until I learned to score it properly. This was some better results as I learned what I was doing. I found that if the score line is really nice with no breaks in it, and it makes that sound like a good weld bead going in, then it’ll break both easily and really nicely. If it’s hard to break then it’s going to break anywhere but on the line.
Dad gave me a whole load of Sallow trees (Back in April or May), a few as cuttings, a few with roots that we’d pulled out of the -paving and yet more that we’d pulled from a drainage channel. Most it did make the journey home as back then it was very hot. Some of it lasted a number of weeks in a put, but then we have had this hot dry weather and it perished. Two of the bits that we’d pulled from the gaps in the paving slabs appear to have made it though. Also in the pot are a variety of other successful plants. When I say successful you can read weeds if you’d prefer. We have a spider plant that I guess got in there from the plant that Dad gave me on the same occasion and also a tomato, though I am unsure quite how […]
We finally painted the chimney breast with it’s first mist coat and then 24 hours later with it’s first full coat of white paint. It needs another 2 coats, at a minimum, and there is a possibility that one of those coats will be a stain blocker coat. There are some patches on the sides that were not freshly plastered and had wall paper on prior to this which are showing marks through the paint.
I decided that new glass was too expensive and second hand glass wasn’t much cheaper. Whereas entire second hand green houses are quite cheap by comparison. So we picked up an 8ft x 8ft green house from a place near Weymouth. I was worried that the glass wasn’t going to be right and having not checked this could have been a rather sorry story. But 2 hours of taking down and another hour loading it all onto the land rover and then after a careful drive home, I was pleasently surprised to find the glass an exact match. Even though this other green house was a far higher quality item, the aluminium profiles are far superior. Much more ridged. I was able to complete our green house, bar one pane that requires cutting, and for that I will need a glass cutter /scorer thing. Dad said he’s never had any […]
We visited the Tank Museum in Bovington on Monday. It was great, though I had it in my mind that it was all about tanks, hulking great machines with tracks that are super capable off road and technologically advanced and so on. I was really looking forward to have a good look at some large bits of machinery. It had skipped my mind that they’re actually machines for killing people. So perhaps taking our 4 year old daughter wasn’t as great an idea as I had previously imagined. Of cause the museum is ordered from the first world war onwards through the various conflicts right to todays latest and greatest waste of human life. Gladly Abigail didn’t seem to realise the significance of the machines. I was impressed by the tank cut into two halves, it was cool to see.
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