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by John Headstrong
Sat Apr 16, 2016 8:49 am
Forum: Welcome New People Say Hello
Topic: I'm Back Too - and I have LAND!!!
Replies: 24
Views: 19650

Re: I'm Back Too - and I have LAND!!!

OK, sold - bigger one it is then :-) very glad you have come round, I was given a pollytunnel early last year (well, by given I mean given the rights to dig it out of a wet field) it was 10x25 foot long but I only had space for 15 foot at the time, I have now re-engineered the gardens steps and put...
by John Headstrong
Fri Apr 08, 2016 12:47 pm
Forum: Welcome New People Say Hello
Topic: I'm Back Too - and I have LAND!!!
Replies: 24
Views: 19650

Re: I'm Back Too - and I have LAND!!!

Congratulations! :brave:


first tunnels for your pollytunnel. https://www.firsttunnels.co.uk/

and have a look at "Chicken Tractor on Steroids" by Goeff Lawton
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=09MDwSMQEs0

we need photos once you start !
:grouphug:
by John Headstrong
Sat Apr 02, 2016 1:45 pm
Forum: How do I??
Topic: Cleaning a polytunnel ?
Replies: 7
Views: 6552

Re: Cleaning a polytunnel ?

I have seen some advertised that have a "Extension Lance" but it does not say how long. http://www.amazon.co.uk/Greenkey-Garden-Pressure-Sprayer-Extension/dp/B00BK2AIGS or this one, then make the brass section much much longer. http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B00X2LBV70?psc=1 It is still a big ...
by John Headstrong
Fri Apr 01, 2016 2:06 pm
Forum: How do I??
Topic: Cleaning a polytunnel ?
Replies: 7
Views: 6552

Re: Cleaning a polytunnel ?

I use http://algonorganics.co.uk/ and it is great.

I use a pump action spray bottle to apply it, I use it for pollytunnels, the old caravan, the path and anywhere else that goes green!
by John Headstrong
Thu Nov 12, 2015 10:22 am
Forum: How do I??
Topic: Dig my own clay
Replies: 12
Views: 9620

Re: Dig my own clay

I have also been playing with clay recently. The clay has come from my local community garden where we had a digger in to prepare that land for the second pollytunnel. We have used it for a pizza oven and I have used some in the form of a slip for a sealant on a heater in the pollytunnel. when it ca...
by John Headstrong
Sat Aug 29, 2015 9:00 pm
Forum: Site Information and Announcements
Topic: THE FUTURE OF ISH
Replies: 29
Views: 59955

Re: THE FUTURE OF ISH

mamos wrote:
I am a graphics guy so if there is anything I can do to help just ask
you may regret saying that.

We need the logos and a few other images remade in to decent hi res versions.

you up for it ?
by John Headstrong
Tue Aug 25, 2015 1:00 pm
Forum: Site Information and Announcements
Topic: Changes to the forum explained.
Replies: 4
Views: 20413

Re: Changes to the forum explained.

Green Aura wrote:It's fine now it's not so orange.
there has always been Orange in the Ish colour set. (but I agree, the starting point was far to orange)


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by John Headstrong
Tue Aug 25, 2015 12:44 pm
Forum: Allotments, Veg Patches and Container Gardening
Topic: Sowing seeds late
Replies: 8
Views: 4990

Re: Sowing seeds late

there is always the ever reliable realseeds http://realseeds.co.uk/summersowing2.html summersowing guide.

I was also planning getting early with tomatoes next year, but boxing day ! wow, that is even earlier than I thought.
by John Headstrong
Sat Aug 22, 2015 2:26 pm
Forum: Allotments, Veg Patches and Container Gardening
Topic: Forest gardens
Replies: 7
Views: 4450

Re: Forest gardens

I would recommend https://scottishforestgarden.wordpress.com/ have a good read. :study:
by John Headstrong
Sat Aug 22, 2015 2:15 pm
Forum: Herbs and Vegetables
Topic: List of perennial vegetables and other food plants
Replies: 21
Views: 14089

Re: List of perennial vegetables and other food plants

2. Daubenton's kale, does not set seed so you grow from cuttings. This works really well for me and has provided our household and our animals with a good supply of leaves in the winter and tender shoots in the spring. I totally agree, I have a plant that I called Pippandy kale because I acquired i...
by John Headstrong
Wed Aug 19, 2015 8:20 pm
Forum: Site Information and Announcements
Topic: Changes to the forum explained.
Replies: 4
Views: 20413

Changes to the forum explained.

Things have changed, the software that runs the forum needed a small upgrade, which failed horribly, leaving the forum broken. I decided the best option was to jump a version from 3.0.12/14 versions to the very new 3. 1 .15 (note the one in the middle is quite major!) The look and feel of the site, ...
by John Headstrong
Wed Jun 03, 2015 10:55 pm
Forum: Site Information and Announcements
Topic: And we are back !!
Replies: 4
Views: 14940

And we are back !!

well we are back, after a much longer than planned break !!!!

sorry about that, gremlins in the machine :study:


I still have work to do, but everything will be back to normal'ish soon. :thumbright:
by John Headstrong
Thu May 28, 2015 7:37 pm
Forum: Site Information and Announcements
Topic: Selfsufficientish downtime end of May 2015
Replies: 1
Views: 12966

Selfsufficientish downtime end of May 2015

In the next few days Selfsufficientish.com will go missing for a few hours while we fix up the machine it is on.


Do not worry, it is just a spring clean and we shall be back shortly.
by John Headstrong
Wed Nov 12, 2014 4:40 pm
Forum: The ish Local - (Chat)
Topic: Telly radio
Replies: 16
Views: 5117

Re: Telly radio / freeview

daffodiltulip wrote:Bingo! (or as they say on Inspector Montalbano, Tombola!)
excellent ! you will find that some channels have moved about, BBC news is now in 130

I love freeview. I do not understand paying monthly subs for something I hardly watch.