This morning while turning my seed trays on the kitchen windowsill there was not a peep of sweetcorn.
Just gone into the kitchen to make a cup of tea and their little heads are through!
So amazing what a few hours can do.
mustve been after a cuppa
Hope you live in the deep south... can't even contemplate sowing mine until May
:-X
I'll sow in the next week or so - I need to get some of those peat/biodegradeable pots first. For some reason, probably my fault, loo rolls don't seem to work with sweetcorn.
Get the peat pots from WILKO, they are the cheapest around. ;D
How about paper pots, Barnowl? They're working well for me, for most things. I looked up all sorts of complicated ways of doing it, including origami, but have settled on a very simple way to make them. For a smallish/mid-size pot, e.g. beans, peas, I use half of one page of tabloid newspaper. (I.e. if you spread out the centre pages, tear down the centre-fold vertically, then tear each sheet in half along horizontal midline, you'd get 4).
Then just roll it loosely round a small straight sided glass, bottle, or jar, fold the bottom over, and if you like, tamp the inside of the pot with a smaller bottle.
I then put the pots in a small box or tray with a bit of compost around them to help keep them damp (and upright). You can also put a few inches of compost underneath them if you're expecting a lot of root growth (e.g. beans, courgette) and want to give them a safety margin. :)
I tear each page into 3 to make smaller pots, around a 30ml Body Shop bottle.
Thanks, it's a good thought, but the other pots have always worked for me and at the moment I'm changing so many other aspects of my planting plan that I'm a bit 'if it ain't broke don't fix it' wherever possible :)
It never fails to amaze me how many toilet rolls some people on this forum use, do you have bowel problems. ??? ::)
I often think what state of health I might be in if I used toilet roll tubes when you consider I generally sow around 80-90 sweet corn seeds.
By my calculations thats near enough two toilet rolls every week of the year ::) ::) plus there are my 30 sweet peas and around 50 Parsnips, making it a toilet roll every two days.
Then when you consider my bowels only move about every three days its totally impracticle :'( :-[ ::)
I don't often ask questions so can you indulge me please and answer this one ;)
I am in the midlands in a pretty sheltered area but they won't be going out for a long time yet! They will spend the next few weeks on the windowsill then they will go onto the covered veranda for a few more weeks they planted out at end of May/beginning of June (weather dependent obviously).
I do mine in RootTrainers and they seem to work ok.
In answer to your question Teegee - we get through scarey amounts of looroll. I think my son uses about half a roll each 'go'!!
Now that my two children are home for holidays our household consumption has gone up to nearly a roll a day. I'm grateful to have a few more tubes to plant things in though.
Tee Gee dont worry!! I understand where you are coming from .......but its a horses for courses kind of thing ;D There are only two of us in our house and we both have a bowel movement everyday --sometimes twice a day each! We accumulate loads of bog rolls!!
I must say this makes me very happy to give you some information for a change!! :P
Duke
*What a topic !!* ;D
Quote from: Tee Gee on April 07, 2009, 16:56:47
It never fails to amaze me how many toilet rolls some people on this forum use, do you have bowel problems. ??? ::)
I don't often ask questions so can you indulge me please and answer this one ;)
One word, 'teenagers'.
No idea why they have to use nearly a full roll every time they go to the loo ::)
Jo.
And 1 kitchen roll tube = 2 bog roll tubes
;) ;) ;) ;) ;)
kept all the inner tubes from the christmas wrapping paper we used, plus my daughter's 4 rolls, get 8 out of each ;D
Jo - snap!! And then they-next-door come to our house for a plunger!!
And TG - I've long wanted to observe upon that - like do you run a B&B??
Quote from: tim on April 07, 2009, 19:54:15
Jo - snap!!
And then they-next-door come to our house for a plunger!!
;D ;D ;D
Been there, got the t-shirt ::)
Jo.
Buy really cheap toilet paper, there's much less on each roll. And the cardboard is nice and thin. :)
Then there are complaints about the quality ::) Good job they don't have to use Bronco, now that would be a different story ;D
Given up with loo rolls here, too much of a fiddle when filling with compost.
I have always been "regular" in the extreme.... punctual my wife used to call it... but as the lactose intolerance has come out into the open.... half a dozen times before 9:00am is not unknown. :-[
I have loo roll tubes imported from Belgium, from a kind friend who collects them for me and brings them over on the Eurostar :) :) :) :)
I think we're on the verge of too much information here ..... :o
Quote from: Barnowl on April 08, 2009, 09:56:01
I think we're on the verge of too much information here ..... :o
I don't "think we're on the verge" I say we already have too much information here ::)
Asbean - what does your friend say if asked do you have anything to declare :P
QuoteI think we're on the verge of too much information here
Agreed!
I think I have got to the bottom of the matter so lets wipe this thread clean.
A big thanks to all for replying and I'll bog off now ;)
TG
:)
;D ;D ;D ;D
QuoteI think I have got to the bottom of the matter so lets wipe this thread clean.
Just remember Tee Gee, the job's not finished until the paperwork is done. :P