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Pleased for you that you are getting ready to do some gardening despite these difficulties.I still have an email from John Miller on here and he says that they are short day onions.Galina might explain it better!
I can see it might be nice to square off the base of your greenhouse, but the chances of it sinking or sliding are very slim** unless there is a river under it - or a broken sewer (or you live in Ripon like Lewis Carroll did). The main thing is to be sure it is thick enough and made with the right mix to stay in one piece... The base of my sun room was laid in two halves (the previous owner was a clueless bodger), and every year the floor looks more and more like a pitched roof.Cheers.**PS. A 33cm thick concrete base will weigh 800 kg per square metre - but that pressure is at the bottom of a hole - probably 28-30cm down.If you were to dig and step into such a hole you would find the surface quite firm compared to soil level (and the thicker and heavier the base, the deeper it rests & the more stable it becomes).The weight on the welly you are stepping on will depend on many things - but heavier people have bigger feet - so everyone's kg per square metre evens out to at least 2000; that's why elephants' feet cope better with mud than we do - especially as quadrupeds tend to keep two feet under them when walking.[/quoteWell i would love to say its that thick but its not, in some places its half an inch and in others its two. Its on clay soil on a slight dip which means all the water in garden drains down the concrete pad. i can easly put my hand into the gap between the concrete and the soil. Cam
That's appalling - it's probably already turned to rubble but doesn't know it yet. I've worked with quite a few cowboys in my time, but it sounds like your guy gives 'cowboys' a bad name - if he's still working at all he's probably in Banking or the Stock Exchange by now.Cheers.
Is there some way you can pour more concrete into the holes. Sharp sand might just wash away. If all concrete to the sand it might gradually harden.