gardening info-spirit in Court Hey Park

Walking into work yesterday I spotted this heron and took this long range photo(apology for quality).The heron in the spirit world signifies Aggressive self determination and self reliance,balance and wisdom,non traditional roles,enjoying your own company and not requiring or needing others

gardening info- cheap beds for spuds

Have you ever been left with builders delivery sacks,you used to be able to return them for cash, not any more.Well what you could do is turn them into raised beds for virtually anything you want to grow, I've turned these into beds for spud growing just by knocking 4 stakes into the corners of each bag. Some well rotted horse manure has been added to rotting leaves, this will be topped off with well rotted compost, a good growing mixture ready for when the potatoes have chitted

gardening info-propagator box

I decided to try and make a propagating box and after a mark 1 version I came up with version mark 2 which will turn out to be a success of that I'm sure.The reason I put this together was to kick start my seed sowing as the greenhouse we had was wrecked by winds over the Christmas/New Year period.Basically what I did was lay a soil warming cable in a box,cover it with perlite and place seed trays on top of perlite and cover box with perspex no,no,no,NO,wasn't happy about that at all. So to cut a long story short,I fixed the soil warming cable to the bottom of the box with ties and placed the seed trays straight onto the cable, SUCCESS,finally my brain had clicked into gear.You can see from the first 2 photos the disaster of Mark 1,but we gardeners get it right in the end,(photo3),LOL

gardening info- our Harry

The hairygardener and his luvly wife Sue have been off the gardening trail this week as we went to see our first grandson Harry who lives in Crawley,he's a little star,be good for your Mum and Dad little man,see you soon xx