A bit of watering and deadheading, and picked the ripe tomatoes. Too hot for anything else. Grass cutting is planned for tomorrow when it's forecast a smidge cooler.
Doncaster, South Yorkshire. Soil type: sandy, well-drained
Got both lawns mowed yesterday in the end. So, having broken up a couple of pallets, I've treated/painted all the various bits prior to attempting to construct some kind of cold frame.
Bit of gardening today pruning , tidying up and moving pots that have gone over Trimmed a big lavender bush that had finished flowering Watered g/h this morning , 90 degrees even with shading & door open Having a rest before doing a bit more
watering took 2 hours this morning. Everything bone dry after 32° yesterday and its 24° today. Picked another 5 toms (at this rate will need to do an early batch of pickle) The plums are just about to ripen too, so that would mean jam time.🤯 this is all a bit early.🥵
Got both lawns mowed yesterday in the end. So, having broken up a couple of pallets, I've treated/painted all the various bits prior to attempting to construct some kind of cold frame.
I made a pallet cold frame it has done really well - was on a pallet thread on here long time ago and not sure you can see the pictures now
So here is a few pictures of it
building up all the sides
making the slope
painted the inside a light colour - country cream garden shades
got a perspex window put together, and handles put on to open up,
You could have only 3 sides of wood on lid frame to help water run off more with handles on sides, like the one David D did on the Alan Titchmarsh grow at home programmes that were not on that long ago
Built my arbour today, with a little help from my support bubble. Too hot for it really but the only options recently seem to be too hot or heavy rain.
@Gardengirl.. nice cold frame I'm rather jealous, I might have to start taking pallets apart😀. No real gardening but Mrs Wilderbeast and I had a big morning tidy up, I have a skip coming next week for a bathroom refit and went big to get all my garden rubbish in too. So far we have about 30 buckets of rubble, lumps of metal and other stuff that we've dug up recently. Made a hedgehog shelter in a corner and a feed station anything helps.
Got both lawns mowed yesterday in the end. So, having broken up a couple of pallets, I've treated/painted all the various bits prior to attempting to construct some kind of cold frame.
I made a pallet cold frame it has done really well - was on a pallet thread on here long time ago and not sure you can see the pictures now
So here is a few pictures of it
building up all the sides
making the slope
painted the inside a light colour - country cream garden shades
got a perspex window put together, and handles put on to open up,
You could have only 3 sides of wood on lid frame to help water run off more with handles on sides, like the one David D did on the Alan Titchmarsh grow at home programmes that were not on that long ago
hinges on back join lid to the box bit
open with blocks to ventilate when plant in
and sand in the bottom ontop of weed matting
Hope this helps you with your pallet build
That's a stunner! I think you may have just heightened my ambitions!!! My main issue at the moment is where to get the lid from on a tight budget. I'm trying freecycle, etc. but may have to bite the bullet and spend some £££s.
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Trimmed a big lavender bush that had finished flowering
Watered g/h this morning , 90 degrees even with shading & door open
Having a rest before doing a bit more
The plums are just about to ripen too, so that would mean jam time.🤯 this is all a bit early.🥵