The presenter fellow is definately loopy (no offence if you read this!) but in a nice way OK. ;D ;D ;D
just watched the 2nd DVD and he was putting human hair around his tomatoes to keep slugs off. I would rather have the slugs. My missus was having convulsions, not sure if they were from disgust or amusement :-\
Does he have a glove fetish or something ?? ;)
Hi
I've got this DVD, good isn't it.
The presenter is a right cheapskate. One thing I wouldn't do is cut the glass jars in half and use as cloches, did you see how jagged it was. However I now use plastic 2 lite coke bottles cut in half on my baby plants and it seems to work, Planted 4 pumpkins and 3 got eaten by slugs etc by the time I had drunk a 2 litre bottle. The bottle has been on 2 weeks now and the plant is still healthy.
Its a really good DVD.
My tip is, don't leave it on view if your friends come round, even if they know you have an allotment, they will take the micky big time.
Melanie :)
The lady who got the new plot & works for the health service must have got him a job lot of surgical gloves - either that or he does hand modelling and would need to keep his nails clean - I also have the DVD & my husband is trying to think up the equivalent name to a trainspotter anorac - however the anorac comes in handy on an allotment! :D
does anyone where them gloves as i dont and well why i like getting muddy and so does my son
matt
;)
He uses those gloves as he was handling manure. I do too :)
I wear them when I open hives. Then if I need to do anything that requires delicacy, like handling the queen, I can take them off, and I don't have sticky propolis all over my hands. Otherwise I don't bother with them.
come on...i thought he was eccentric at first-but really-he's an enthusiast-if it wasnt for people like hime we'd never hear about how good it is to have your lotties!
he's ok...and he wears gloves(which is sensible when you think about it.....)because of the infections you can pick up from soil-have you updated your tetanus jab this year? ;)
seen what lockjaws like? :-[ :o
i like the dvd...s'good! ;D
Me too Kitty. Watched a bit today when ironing (again, yuk) and it was a bit I couldn't remember seeing before. I like the bit at the end where they sit and eat something off the plot :)
Hi
I have this dvd too, and yes I do believe the guy is slightly excentric. ::)
I do love his enthusiasm, and also i love the way he doesn't do thing the conventional way. There are no straight lines, and it shows that you can do it on a shoe string :D ;).
Very enjoyable and well worth watching :D :D ;D
It's really helped me as I'm new to allotments and it shows how you can get stuff in straight away and what can be achieved without digging which is important if you have a bad back (like lots of us) I really enjoy it and try and watch a bit each day. :)
My daughter does hair (extensions and stuff) on the side, so we have human hair lying in all sorts of odd places. Ugh! When you think it comes from women who are so poor they have to sell their hair, it's horrible.
It is a good DVD - & gloves are a good idea - I do usually wear them - He obviously is not allergic to latex. I also have gleaned loads of tips from the DVD so it was worth getting :D :D :D
QuoteHe obviously is not allergic to latex
Two comments... first, most of the time people who have contact dermatitis from latex gloves aren't actually reacting to the latex as to the powder in the gloves which help them slide on more easily (that was the case with me, so I use powder free gloves now, works a treat)... and second.. if you're persistant, you can find latex-free exam gloves.
I'm a medical student.. so I wind up having them lying about anyhow.. but I'm quite sure they can be had from any medical supply outfit relatively cheaply.
Annie in Norway
PS Don't forget your tetanus jab... and do wear gloves! (I hate wearing them.. necessary evil I'm afraid, what with tetanus, toxoplasmosis, zygomycosis, leptospira etc...
Had a colleague say he'd seen some anecdotal comment about Enterohæmorrahgic E. coli from tangential contact also, but I find that rather suspect... (and by gum, I'm not about to stop using cow poos in the garden... til they pry my fork out of my fist!)
lol!
is 'by gum' an old norwegian expression then?lol! ;D
Quote from: kitty on June 01, 2005, 15:54:11
lol!
is 'by gum' an old norwegian expression then?lol! ;D
Tee hee Kitty =) I always heard my gran say that... she was inimitable, and no mistake =) I'm very new 'round here *points at post count*... but I'm actually not Norwegian.. I'm English, born in Sussex, raised near London. I just married the 'Husbandguy' who's Norwegian, and moved here to the frozen northlands =)Â
We met online actually! Geeky but true. The climate here reminds me a great deal of the southeast England honestly.. pretty rare to get a good solid freeze or much snow in Bergen (we're on the southwest coast of Norway.. right on the Gulf Stream)... We get more than our fair share of rain rain rain rain though... Norwegian has over 100 words for various kinds of nasty precipitation (not joking)... Slushy rain, sleety rain, cold-nasty-drip-down-your-glasses-and-into-your-shirt-rain, snowy rain, rainy snow, plain slush, icy slush.. etc...
Annie in Norway
Oh now youve done it Annie,
I had to work in Oslo for a couple of weeks in january and LOVED it. We went back for a short break and we both LOVED it, in fact we even discussed living there but thought gardening must be impossible - it was -17 when we were there.
Now I'm thinking again!
People keep bees up there so it must be possible to garden!
Could someone let me know what the DVD is called and where I can pick it up from thanks in advance.
http://www.allotment.info/ (http://www.allotment.info/)
Called "The Allotment". Great fun, but his voice drives me loopy!!!
Cheers buying it now.
lovely wardy!
i want to do a pepper tunnel like on the dvd-there were loads of good tips on it-and when you keep dipping into it its amazing what you missed!
while the oh is in the mood get the other frames done! ;) ;D
noooooo-tims a gentleman!
he may have a courteous snicker at them..but not a full throated heart laugh! ;)
i havent even got a flower on mine :(o well-i'm sure they will eventually!-i do have toms on me tumbler-but i expect lots ofpeople have... ::)
well I have given in to my curiosity and ordered these DVD's off Ebay - signed copy no less! Hubby thinks I am off rocker that the only DVD I have ever bought for myself is 5 hours of allotments!!
Can't wait!
i am off work ill and well i have watched the first two cd's and well i think that he is a bit mad
anyone else think this
good cd though
arrived this morning and watched the first 2 programme but then it made me want to go to the lottie! Will try and watch some more later. It is a bit low budget but already I am hooked!
Look even my daughter likes this video - she's 9
the tips are great and does motivate you to go to the plot and get on with it
www.losingtheplot.blogspot.com
veeery nice lottie-and lovely blog too! ;D
i did me tates like that too,wardy-hence no garden pic as its not that ;)aesthetic but it has been productive-i'm putting some produce in the village show this year but i have a dilemma ???...as i've not been too well this year and i've just let nature take her course..if(and its a BIG if-there are some serious gardeners in our village)i win a place or anything...have i actually won or is it mother nature????! ;D :-[
Sounds like fun. Just ordered a copy using OH's paypal account, i've just finished decorating the hall, with no help as usual, and felt like treating ME!!
ta wardola! ;)i have a bit of a way to go yet but certainly better than i was.....and obviously well enough to give the gardening pensioners a run(well..totter) for their money in the village show-dont worry-if i even get a sniff of a certificate i shall be a-posting here as if i had won Miss World...hang on-i have won Miss World!..
so-watch this space-i could be in line for first prize in classes 1-51(whichever i think is the easiest to get a place in!)which is an unspecified amount of fertilizer... :o
does this mean a tractor load of poo?
oo-er!that means i'll have to move the coal out the bath..
yes-you southeners-its true!coal in the bath and hot and cold running tripe! ;D
WARDY!
big shiny things??????
ooh!where??
i cant find it-i cant find it-kitty hopping impatiently in case wardys stole a march on the kitty..where is it you berhooger?tell me!
or i wont let you see my giant sparklingstole-offa-pensioner trophy(when i win it!) ;D
o no no no no no! ;)
mine will be HUGE-big and shiny!!!!!!!!(and spelt right too!)
o yes-even now i am ordering a brand new LARGE sideboard to hold the magnificent trophy that will be the envy of all who survey it......gardening judges will speak of my prowess in hushed tones...
have you seen kittys carrots(they'll say) :o
have you her seen her shallots?? :o
have you witnessed the magnificence of her marrows? :o
then they will swoon with the very wonderfulness of my gardening achievement. ;D
on the otherhand they could just wet 'em selves laffin at me puny veg. >:( :(