Many thanks for the heads-up Ziggy, I'll stock up while I can. I've still got some Dithane 945 which is good for blight control as I stocked up...
Well done Steve, I'm delighted to see your patience has at last paid off. Politeness is the flower of humanity - Joseph Joubert
100% cloud here :cry3: But I don't think there's been any significant aurora as I can normally detect even non-visual auroral activity on my VHF...
It will be well worthwhile looking at the northern sky this evening and again tomorrow evening. There's been a very big solar flare and the...
Cleaning up after making chocolate cake is fun :) [ATTACH]
It looks like there are no horizontal glazing bars fitted to the wall sections so unless you put some in you'd have a heck of a job using glass....
That photo's a real beauty Mandy - pin sharp! We seldom got goldfinches in the garden until last year when we started feeding with niger seed. Now...
Hi Ziggy! The link wasn't much use - it didn't work. No worries though, it's early days and I'm sure I'll get it sorted soon.
Oh metric's so much simpler and we've been using it for decades now. If you ever listen to BBC4 on long wave, you don't tune to a wavelength of...
John's got the answer! We use plastic bins to contain mint roots and it works a treat. Only thing I'd add to John's suggestion is that after...
The moon looked good tonight so I thought I try a shot and faffed about for ages trying to get the exposure and focus right. Didn't quite manage...
Well done and thanks to all concerned with the transition. It's been virtually seamless from this user's point of view and from what I've seen of...
We've been using two standard "Dalek" bins as worm composters for the past several years. They work extremely well and the worms don't require any...
It's a Canon 60D. I had a Canon 70-300 lens but have just upgraded it to a 70-300 L series lens and going by first results it does seem to be...
I got a new zoom 70-300 lens last week and today was its first brief outing. It'll take me ages to find out what the optimum settings are, but I'm...
The height of the frames is about 4.5 feet and the sprouts were pushing the top of the mesh when fully grown. Width is about 110 cm and the length...
Once upon a time I found working at the leading edge of technology was fun. Nowadays 'the leading edge' feels more like 'the bleeding edge'. :o
Hard to give a definitive answer as much depends on the height of the hedge and how close to it your veg will be. Planting too close will as...
I've noticed my internet speed has been down over the past couple of weeks. Apart from slow loading of some pages I'm finding that when trying to...
In my teens I had a small NSU Prinz car which wasn't always reliable. I called it Puck and when it let me down I'd say "Oh Puck".
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