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Old 07-07-2009, 03:01 AM
Tamzi
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Default July 2009: return of the rain
Over the past few days the heat in my location has soared into the the low/high 80's. but all good things come too an end. in my case a big wet end.

the first rain fall hit us hard a good 2 inch easy fell in under an hour, not bad hey, thats what i thought but sadly i dont have a water but and a rainwater downpipe too connect too. as the green house is plastic it has no guttering. i realy must find some way too harness this gift from above it will save me a small fortune in water bills.

my peppers are doing realy well now. the mini Jihad against the slugs and snails have worked and my bait is slaying these beasts left right and centre. i lost outta 4 plants only one too slugs and snails. but fruit flowers and leave on the other three have taken a hammering, out of 6 fruit on my best bell pepper i lost all but one. my cayenne pepper has lost around 1/3 of its leaves too these beasts and my last bell pepper has been decimated. bit it refuses too die and has produced a huge amount of new growing tips.

beer and the usual old housewifes tales did not work so i had too go with chemical warfare too eradicate these beasts.

i need too charge up the mobile before i take take a few update pictures. so keep tuned in for the next update pictures im realy happy with the results from these cheap gro-bags and a cheap plastic greenhouse. but the north east facing garden is a hard one too work with the greenhouse gets sunlight from 8am-10am then again from 12-8pm its full sun again my garden is surounded by other dwellings too so they shade my garden sometimes.

the garden itself was a rubbish tip for all the building rubbish . when we moved in we found a jcb backhoe, cement bags, sandbags,scafolding,scafolding knuckle fitments. plaster backwash all buried under the topsoil. the list went on and every rainfal the garden would flood. in the end we had too hand dig an 8 foot deep sump hole and filled it with all the brick rubble from the garden. the yard was left too go wild for 10 years apart from the cutting down every few months. this year is the tester i planted two bean plants into the soil with no added feed and will leave them too natures own, if they grow well next year i am bringing in a mini digger and will remove the top layer ready too transform the once wild garden into my own garden allotment.

Last edited by Tamzi; 07-07-2009 at 03:19 AM..
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