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Ideal gardening activity to do when the winter nights come marching in.

I wonder....could you use masking tape? I know it remains sticky, but cut 1/2m lengths and lay them out where they wont get stuck to other things.......

I think its a brilliant idea - I will be trying this method (when I get our allotment dug over).

Quote from: cheddarpaul on September 11, 2005, 09:34:47
I wonder....could you use masking tape? I know it remains sticky, but cut 1/2m lengths and lay them out where they wont get stuck to other things.......

You would have to use them straight away - not a job for cold winter evenings, and transport up the lottie might be a tad difficult.

If you used flower and water it would dry hard so you would not be able to role them up like tape. You would have ridged paper sticks which would be a little difficult if you are carrying then down in a bag on foot. So it aint quite tape.

The_Snail

Hey SS, I use wallpaper paste in blobs (remember caps for pop guns were like blobs on a roll? showing my age :-X) and didn't spread the whole tape, so mine roll up a treat. Touch and go when I got to the plot to lay the last lot though, had to work fast cos it was pouring down and they got soggy in no time!  :'( Great results with the spinach  ;D

I remember the old cap rolls, they used to be pink tapes with blobs of gunpowder inpregnated in them. I used to use them fo my cap gun.

I will have to try that. Going to find some seed and have a go later on. It would work well I suppose with radish seeds or beetroot or better still carrots saving thining them out and attracting the dreaded root fly.

The_Snail

I remember those rolls of caps, they cost a penny, the same as a small bar of chocolate. The smell of the gunpowder smoke was unforgettable.

Can I pass this on please? It sounds a brilliant idea.

I am going to do a trial with flour paste. I will keep yuo informed.

The_Snail

Quote from: the_sexy_snail on November 27, 2005, 06:02:55
I am going to do a trial with flour paste. I will keep yuo informed.

The_Snail

the last trial i went to was for sheepdogs and they where all found guilty!!! ;)
KevB

 ;D ;D ;D

Still funny though !!!

Derekthefox :D

I remember the cap guns. Creating the bang by scraping your fingernail across the roll was much tougher thiough. Hard school mine. ;)

I used to get yellow melted-looking dents in my fingernails doing that.

And me !!!

Derekthefox :D

Have made a note to try doing some of these seed tapes with carrot as Snail suggested, sounds like that one would indeed solve a few problems.

A job for Christmas day afternoon I think, when everyone else is watching telly, I shall be laying strips of paper out on the table and messing about gleefully with paste and carrot seed  ;D

Ha ha I have this image of you, tongue stuck out sideways, paste and seeds all over your hands and hair, tapes tangled everywhere, whilst the rest of the family are oblivious ...

Sorry, I have a wicked imagination sometimes !!!

I will be suffering the normal after-effects of indulging in too much food, and alcohol ...

Derekthefox :D

Another top seed tape tip is to make seed tape balls  ::)
e.g. for tiny seeds, like carrot, if you wanna be fussy you can plant a couple on your tape, then when dry snip into sections and roll loosely. Then make a furrow, take your bit of downpipe, drop the balls down at intervals, and plant the furrow without bending! :o
That one's from a gardening book for older peeps, so ignore you young sprouts if you wish ...  :P ;D

Anything that eases the bending Sarah!!! That is something I am noticing from planting time now, is the backache from continually bending down ...

Derekthefox :D