matty you are like me when I first started, trust me, buy a spirit level near 3 ft in length. I made several raised beds and when I watered it all went to one corner! When you build the bed, use the level, looks much better too! And it means you digging out typically an extra few mins.. I think I paid maybe 12 quid, but it's a tool for life, so really it's quite cheap.
BB, I agree, a spirit level is a friend for life, BUT, I was going to paint a mural (which is what I do ) in the US Virgin Islands, arrived on a tiny plane with my client who was clutching my big spirit level wrapped in bubblewrap, the very severe customs lady said 'What is that?' and all of us Brits said, 'It's a spirit level'. She looked a bit concerned and waived us through. I later learnt that in the US they call it a level. I think she thought that we were going to do seances around this thing.
My vegetable garden was turned over to my hens when the surrounding woodland trees got so big that they kept sun off it for most of the day.
I now grow my runner beans up canes in front of the brickwork pillars of my garage - three plants to each 18" trough. The containers look far too small, and indeed they do have to be watered every day in hot weather, but we get pounds and pounds of beans every year. I plant Suttons "Best of All" and they have never let me down.
Bog standard terracotta coloured plastic troughs about 18" long 6" wide and deep (any bigger and I wouldn't be able to open the up and over doors). Homebase grow bag as compost.
I water with 1/2 strength tomato feed every other watering once the plants get going and 1/2 strength Phostrogen once a week as I feel the tomato feed may be lacking some of the trace elements.
The garage is south facing and plants do sometimes wilt when it's very sunny due to being against the hot brickwork, but they soon recover once the sun's off them.
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matty you are like me when I first started, trust me, buy a spirit level near 3 ft in length. I made several raised beds and when I watered it all went to one corner! When you build the bed, use the level, looks much better too! And it means you digging out typically an extra few mins.. I think I paid maybe 12 quid, but it's a tool for life, so really it's quite cheap.
BB, I agree, a spirit level is a friend for life, BUT, I was going to paint a mural (which is what I do ) in the US Virgin Islands, arrived on a tiny plane with my client who was clutching my big spirit level wrapped in bubblewrap, the very severe customs lady said 'What is that?' and all of us Brits said, 'It's a spirit level'. She looked a bit concerned and waived us through. I later learnt that in the US they call it a level. I think she thought that we were going to do seances around this thing.
My vegetable garden was turned over to my hens when the surrounding woodland trees got so big that they kept sun off it for most of the day.
I now grow my runner beans up canes in front of the brickwork pillars of my garage - three plants to each 18" trough. The containers look far too small, and indeed they do have to be watered every day in hot weather, but we get pounds and pounds of beans every year. I plant Suttons "Best of All" and they have never let me down.
Lordswood, are these troughs 18" wide/ deep? Is it homemade compost ?
Hi artjak
Bog standard terracotta coloured plastic troughs about 18" long 6" wide and deep (any bigger and I wouldn't be able to open the up and over doors). Homebase grow bag as compost.
I water with 1/2 strength tomato feed every other watering once the plants get going and 1/2 strength Phostrogen once a week as I feel the tomato feed may be lacking some of the trace elements.
The garage is south facing and plants do sometimes wilt when it's very sunny due to being against the hot brickwork, but they soon recover once the sun's off them.
Phostrogen seems like a good idea