Will you put the soaker hose on a time Dove? Hide it under a mulch? I ask cos I'm thinking of one for our potager.
LG - the dementors are the old committee who have resigned en masse. The ex president is not very clever and has health issues so, instead of saying, sorry I'm ill and can't do all I should and then delegating, she just cancelled all activities and then got upset when people muttered. When they all resigned they thought the club would die but we've found 7 of us needed to carry it on. It turns out French brueaucracy is even worse than Belgian so tomorrow I have to go to the "sous-prefecture" to register change of president and official address and contact address before we can continue to function. Other than that, it was easier than we thought and the members were unanimous.
Vendée - 20kms from Atlantic coast.
"The price good men (and women) pay for indifference to public affairs is to be ruled by evil men (and women)."
It hides pretty well under foliage (I have pretty crowded beds) ... I’ve had to order some pegs to peg it down with as the GC didn’t have any. Without pegging it down it tried to stay in loops and coils like a mediaeval illustration of a sea serpent 😆
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
Oh my goodness - just for a club, Obxx? Wow. I'm glad you're able to carry on after all though - well done! I'm sure the chocolate helped
OK, here are my small, embarrassed questions (I feel I should know this). If I use my hose, I attach it to the outside tap and turn the tap on. The water comes out pretty fast. If it's on a timer, do I just leave the tap 'on'? What stops the water coming out? Isn't there a build up of pressure? How can that be safe on holiday? Or if I *don't* leave the tap on, what turns it? It's a physical turn, an electronic timer can't do that. I don't understand!
Back to normal size now. The videos I've watched all say that you should spread your new soaker hose out in the sun before putting in position, to stop it wanting to curl all over the place. With the temperatures you (and we) had yesterday, Dove, you should have bought it then!
'If you have a garden and a library, you have everything you need.'
There should be a fitting on the timer/attachments that will 'stop' the water, LG. Just like hose fittings. I could never be a member of any club/group/organisation/committee Roof man has been and it's not too bad thankfully. Couple of cracked tiles, one of which had been sealed up with something which has obviously, and unsurprisingly, failed. He said to me 'why would you go up a ladder just to do that?' 'To save phoning you' was my reply Rain has been quite persistent most of today again. I managed a walk late morning when it had gone off a bit, but dry spells have been few and far between. Lentil soup was made though, and some indoor chores done.
It's a place where beautiful isn't enough of a word....
I live in west central Scotland - not where that photo is...
@LG_ those are questions I've always wanted to know the answers to. OH would like to set up watering for when we are away, but I don't trust it if you have to leave a tap on. Anyway there is too much, loads of pots and also raised beds and how will the thingy know when it's raining?
Dordogne and Norfolk. Clay in Dordogne, sandy in Norfolk.
Sorry Dove, somehow I missed the Andrew Logan comment. He seems like a jolly nice chap, and his pub/hotel in Wales definitely sounds worth a visit.
Glad it's not just me, BL! And thanks FG, but I'm going to need a bit more info. HOW does it stop it - mechanically, or what? And the pressure thing? Though as someone who has never really grasped that elastic-trickery isn't magic, perhaps I shouldn't be trying to understand!
'If you have a garden and a library, you have everything you need.'
I rather suspect that it’s a better use of the Mods’ time to give it a trial than to have to police an increasingly fractious thread at a time of year when the GW office team have many demands on their time @punkdoc 😊
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LG - the dementors are the old committee who have resigned en masse. The ex president is not very clever and has health issues so, instead of saying, sorry I'm ill and can't do all I should and then delegating, she just cancelled all activities and then got upset when people muttered. When they all resigned they thought the club would die but we've found 7 of us needed to carry it on. It turns out French brueaucracy is even worse than Belgian so tomorrow I have to go to the "sous-prefecture" to register change of president and official address and contact address before we can continue to function. Other than that, it was easier than we thought and the members were unanimous.
like a mediaeval illustration of a sea serpent 😆
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
OK, here are my small, embarrassed questions (I feel I should know this). If I use my hose, I attach it to the outside tap and turn the tap on. The water comes out pretty fast. If it's on a timer, do I just leave the tap 'on'? What stops the water coming out? Isn't there a build up of pressure? How can that be safe on holiday? Or if I *don't* leave the tap on, what turns it? It's a physical turn, an electronic timer can't do that. I don't understand!
Back to normal size now.
The videos I've watched all say that you should spread your new soaker hose out in the sun before putting in position, to stop it wanting to curl all over the place. With the temperatures you (and we) had yesterday, Dove, you should have bought it then!
I could never be a member of any club/group/organisation/committee
Roof man has been and it's not too bad thankfully. Couple of cracked tiles, one of which had been sealed up with something which has obviously, and unsurprisingly, failed. He said to me 'why would you go up a ladder just to do that?' 'To save phoning you' was my reply
Rain has been quite persistent most of today again. I managed a walk late morning when it had gone off a bit, but dry spells have been few and far between. Lentil soup was made though, and some indoor chores done.
I live in west central Scotland - not where that photo is...
The majority clearly did not want a like button, but we have one anyway.
When you don't even know who's in the team
S.Yorkshire/Derbyshire border
Glad it's not just me, BL! And thanks FG, but I'm going to need a bit more info. HOW does it stop it - mechanically, or what? And the pressure thing? Though as someone who has never really grasped that elastic-trickery isn't magic, perhaps I shouldn't be trying to understand!
time to give it a trial than to have to police an increasingly fractious thread at a time of year when the GW office team have many demands on their time @punkdoc 😊
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.