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  • onedayatatime
    onedayatatime Online Community Member Posts: 235 Empowering

    That sounds amazing @onebigvoice !!! Have you grown in ploytunnels before? I recommend a book called The Polytunnel Book by Joyce Russell 👍 As a "have a go' gardener, I got a copy with future intentions of setting up something to grow all year. It sounds like such a lovely garden full of potential!

  • onebigvoice
    onebigvoice Scope Member Posts: 875 Pioneering

    Actually, in all the time I spend in the garden, and on a farm, I have never grown anything using this. It has an automatic spray system built into the roof section that works on a timer and is attached to two water butt at the back of the house. He has grown his own produce in there before. And there are still potatoes and tomatoes, and Dill, but have not gone all the way down.

    There is also a "pond" so I don't have to build my own which has a thick membrane in it but needs to be cleaned to see the bottom and refilled to check for leaks my fish are already around 14 to 20 inches long and the shop by me wanted to give me a credit note for them where I have seen simial smaller fish sell for £150 each. It's about 16 to 20 inches deep and will also take water Lillies and Bamboo I have given others for their pond. there is loads of room for a waterfall that I normally have that goes over glass marbles to give the babbling brook sound and aerate the water. Can't wait.

  • michael57
    michael57 Online Community Member Posts: 1,301 Championing

    Take your time no rush

  • michael57
    michael57 Online Community Member Posts: 1,301 Championing
  • michael57
    michael57 Online Community Member Posts: 1,301 Championing

    A weeks progress

  • michael57
    michael57 Online Community Member Posts: 1,301 Championing

    Dawnie does not like this one so I look after it better

  • michael57
    michael57 Online Community Member Posts: 1,301 Championing
  • Jimm_Alumni
    Jimm_Alumni Scope alumni Posts: 5,717 Championing

    Some lovely pictures @michael57!

  • Sandy_123
    Sandy_123 Scope Member Posts: 62,595 Championing

    Look nice @michael57

  • michael57
    michael57 Online Community Member Posts: 1,301 Championing

    haha dawnie thinks the same untill i open my mouth the dahlias are nice tho 🤣

  • Bluebell21
    Bluebell21 Online Community Member, Scope Member Posts: 10,165 Championing

    Hi @michael57 Your flowers are beautiful. I like the yellow one. Take care.

  • keats88
    keats88 Online Community Member Posts: 63 Contributor

    cracking flowers

  • michael57
    michael57 Online Community Member Posts: 1,301 Championing

    i think all flowers are cracking and i have to say we have never ever cut a flower to put in a vase in the house we like them in the garden dawnie likes her alstroemeria we keep them in 60cm tubs and just pluck them when they have gone over get at least 3 crops a year

  • keats88
    keats88 Online Community Member Posts: 63 Contributor
  • chiarieds
    chiarieds Online Community Member Posts: 16,700 Championing

    I'm with Dawnie if she doesn't like yellow flowers I must admit. My son's wife really likes dahlias, but do you pronounce them day- li-ahs, or dar- li-ahs?

  • michael57
    michael57 Online Community Member Posts: 1,301 Championing

    well being a somerset lad we rather posh down here its dah-lias and dont side with dawnie i have a hard enough time getting away with things as it is she needs no help 😎

  • chiarieds
    chiarieds Online Community Member Posts: 16,700 Championing

    Ouch - I've lost the friendly 'argument' over pronunciation then as I'm a northener, & she came from closer to the equator 😊

  • michael57
    michael57 Online Community Member Posts: 1,301 Championing

    bless how can you lose a friendly argument based on whereabouts you live or come from 🙄

  • chiarieds
    chiarieds Online Community Member Posts: 16,700 Championing

    Yes, she's a southerner, tho now lives a few houses away from me with my son 'up north!' They've just taken up gardening a few years ago, much to my surprise & pleasure, tho I've spent quite a few hours 'helping!' 😊