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  • Rosie_Scope
    Rosie_Scope Posts: 8,345 Online Community Team

    If there isn't anything ready-made available, Remap sometimes do things like this, might be worth a look: https://remap.org.uk/

  • WelshBlue
    WelshBlue Community Member Posts: 1,073 Championing

    @Wibbles … I'm with @michael57 … a local engineering firm is your best bet. Some type of bracket with a swivel would be easy for them to do. Small box steel with some flat bar isn't expensive but the design and frabrication is where the expense would be.

    If there's somewhere near you, you could maybe ask if they'd do a prototype with possibly them having other customers wanting the same thing with some advertising ?

  • vikingqueen
    vikingqueen Scope Member Posts: 2,002 Championing

    Any of you grow veg in pots? I've no garden but would like to have a go. Not sure how successful I'd be 🤔

  • Rosie_Scope
    Rosie_Scope Posts: 8,345 Online Community Team

    I've done veggies in pots before @vikingqueen. I found tomatoes and peppers did quite well. I grew them inside for a while then had them outside by a sunny wall. And I had some peas in a larger pot that managed to do alright until the snails got to them! I gave them something to climb up and they were quite happy before being mercilessly devoured 😅

    Strawberries are a nice pot plant too and fairly easy to keep alive.

  • michael57
    michael57 Community Member Posts: 2,767 Championing

    Grow bags are ok pots are fine hanging baskets are cool for strawberries go for it

  • WelshBlue
    WelshBlue Community Member Posts: 1,073 Championing

    @Wibbles … maybe you could get something like this made up ?# AI generated Image

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    2 x 1 timber would do the same. If you were close I'd knock it up for you

    @vikingqueen … I've grown dwarf french beans, tomatoes, cucumbers, lettuce and spring onions in pots and troughs succesfully. Peppers and chillies not so much success but others do.

    Just remember to feed and water regularly.

    I've got to grow runner beans in pots this year. Got to being the order 😝

  • vikingqueen
    vikingqueen Scope Member Posts: 2,002 Championing

    Oo thank you @michael57 @Rosie_Scope and @WelshBlue, I might give it a go. I've got a sunny backyard so fingers crossed.

    PS I have been known to kill dandelions 🙄😅

  • michael57
    michael57 Community Member Posts: 2,767 Championing

    no thats for the early bees you nasty person haha

  • WelshBlue
    WelshBlue Community Member Posts: 1,073 Championing

    I had a neighbour who grew dandelions for the birds in his aviary … everyone loved him when the fairies were flying everywhere 😂

    @vikingqueen … beetroots are good in troughs … young leaves lovely and flavoursome in salads

  • SoapySoutar
    SoapySoutar Community Member Posts: 560 Empowering

    I would suggest paying a local grass cutter, hassle free and a well spent £20 a time.

  • Holly_Scope
    Holly_Scope Posts: 5,270 Online Community Team

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    Got some cute new gardening gloves today so thought I'd share.

    Hoping for a bit nicer weather so I can put them into practice this weekend.

    I'm far from a gardening pro, but i do find it therapeutic. Starting to see a lot more colour in the garden 🌺

  • WelshBlue
    WelshBlue Community Member Posts: 1,073 Championing

    Cute gloves @Holly_Scope 😀

    No matter what I'm doing I can't wear gloves. With missing digits on both hands they just flap around and get in the way 😂

    Cutting them off is counter-productive … the empty fingers and thumb … not actual digits.

    But actually losing the real things is counter-productive. I've confused myself 😯

  • Holly_Scope
    Holly_Scope Posts: 5,270 Online Community Team

    Thanks @WelshBlue 😊

    You nearly lost me there too, it doesn't take much to confuse me though. 😂 Yeah, that's really not practical and probably more likely to have an accident 😬 There's nothing wrong with getting your hands dirty in the garden anyway!

  • SoapySoutar
    SoapySoutar Community Member Posts: 560 Empowering

    @michael57 That farm yard manure you called it, it must have some heat in the middle; I thought i was approaching a fire tonight, but it was the FYM steaming away to itself! 🐄

    I saw a worker in a tractor on Sunday night, he was turning it over with forks on the front of his machine. I suppose they are planning on spreading it soon? This is old hat to you, but I never paid much attention other than hauling produce! Maybe he can sell some to that excitable farmer in Kent? ( He who was on Newsnight last week). 💩

  • michael57
    michael57 Community Member Posts: 2,767 Championing

    Haha some of the best fertilizer is human waste injected into the ground but then you get the micro plastics contamination again

  • SoapySoutar
    SoapySoutar Community Member Posts: 560 Empowering

    Treated human waste i hope? The poor people of North Korea are meant to be infested with tapeworm, because they have to use human waste; in fact they have to collect it and have it weighed. Theft among neighbours isn't uncommon.

  • Amberpearl
    Amberpearl Community Member Posts: 3,890 Championing

    It's still too cold to plant my dahlia tuber

    And my petunia plugs

    Worry about frost

  • michael57
    michael57 Community Member Posts: 2,767 Championing
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    michael57 Community Member Posts: 2,767 Championing
  • michael57
    michael57 Community Member Posts: 2,767 Championing