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Peat B
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I have just spent a couple of hours at the table, whilst 'she who must' is out at Pilates, stripping some heavy-ish copper wire out of the plastic jacket. With a Stanley knife, it becomes a simple a task as peeling off layers of sunburned skin ! As satisfying too !
So, in a couple of hours, I stripped off about 50 metres plus, of good gauge shiny copper, into 150mm strips, dropped them into a box, and have started using them as slug deterrent around the brassica plants, and the marigold family in our front garden.
Keeping an eye out for stuff in skips where a house is being renovated, re-wired and modernised can be so rewarding. Old fashioned plumbing , lengths of piping, replaced windows, are all treasure. I salvages three good sized water tanks capacity of 200 litres each last year, and 600 ltrs of more valuable water is not to be sneezed at !
Those council boxes for re-cycling bottles are good too ! Fill them with growbag stuff, and they grow very nice well protected carrots, peas, runner beans and wotnot !
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Nice one Peat B. I got a water butt off a skip the other day for my allotment and a load of 4 x 2" wood from a building site (with permission of course)that had been stripped out, perfect for making some raised beds. Love a freebie too
Like the re-cycling box idea, but where will I put all my empty wine bottles lol !!
I'll never throw away old electrical cable again, I've just bought some copper tape for my Dahlias in pots too, doh!
Someone "recycled" some heavy duty copper wire round here a couple of months ago and plunged three villages into darkness for six hours.
If you live in Derbyshire, as I do.
Hi Ginagibbs, Empty wine bottles ? Fill the buggers up again ! They should be ready next year !
Pansy, I really didn't think anyone would notice !
Someone at work has tried smearing copper slip around the edge of his patio. Don't know if this works as he is a bit strange anyway, and I try avoiding any conversations with him
Hi Peat B just to say love your sense of humour keep it coming.
Yo ! Pash, Some would say I don't have a sense of humour, but a chaotic mental disorder ! Thanks anyway.
She who must and I have just been oop t'lotty and been feeding da boidies with mealworms, wild seeds and a can of John Smiths. The Blackies are getting a bittie aggressive recently, and seeing off the starlings , spuggies and dunnocks, all around our feet as we sip on a flavourable beverage made with hops and the like. It has JUST started to rain lightly, so we retreated home to a warm hoosie, and the chicken is almost done.
GAWD but life is good, when you let it !
Philippa are you near me? Im about 10 miles east of Norwich. thunderstorms, hailstone and power cuts. Me too.