@raisingirl ( or anyone else ) - I don't know what tea bags are in this context? Are they similar to the little wrapper thing that ( eg ) jiffy pellets for seed-starting sometimes come encased in ( which i always unwrap before potting on as they never seem to disintegrate that fast for me, but perhaps I just had a bad experience)
@raisingirl ( or anyone else ) - I don't know what tea bags are in this context? Are they similar to the little wrapper thing that ( eg ) jiffy pellets for seed-starting sometimes come encased in ( which i always unwrap before potting on as they never seem to disintegrate that fast for me, but perhaps I just had a bad experience)
That's them alright. I take them off whenever I find them. I suspect the jiffy pellet type things are what the nurseries are using to grow seeds/cuttings to save on labour pricking out/potting up separately.
Doncaster, South Yorkshire. Soil type: sandy, well-drained
Jiffy pellets here don't have a tea bag, fortunately, but the poor plant range and high prices in our GCs are such that I am determined to grow things from seed myself - re-using plastic cell trays very carefully till they die and occasionally using these pellet thingies but only because they tend to be included when I've bought trays for sowing.
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)."
Built in redundancy/obsolescence or whatever it's called.
I know the gov is finally getting round to trying to make sure appliances can be repaired, so don't end up in landfill at the first hardware malfunction, but they've missed a point.
I now have two devices where the hardware is absolutely fine, but the firmware/software stops the device from functioning as it did when bought. Given that everything appears to have a chip and software in it so it can be part of the 'internet of things' - the gov needs to look beyond simple hardware issues being the cause of items going into landfill.
I've ordered a bit of hose ( not from the manufacturer ) to repair my upright vacuum cleaner. A better quality of hose in the original would have cost the manufacturer practically nothing. I can only think that it was a form of planned obsolescence. When the time comes to replace the machine, I will be buying from someone else, so their cunning plan has backfired. Ps I'm off to find out what's the difference between a machine and a device.
To me a 'machine' has moving parts - so all this Heath Robinson thingies were machines as is a steamroller - and in general is involved in making something?
A device, to me, is just an electronic gadget.
So I have a washing machine, but my fridge (to me) isn't a machine - so that's reasonable on the moving parts criteria. Oddly, my car isn't a machine to me, but a steamroller is. Why don't I see my car as a machine? That's peculiar eh? Similarly, I don't see a rocket as a machine.
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That's them alright. I take them off whenever I find them. I suspect the jiffy pellet type things are what the nurseries are using to grow seeds/cuttings to save on labour pricking out/potting up separately.
Ps I'm off to find out what's the difference between a machine and a device.