The compost heap - off topic thread

Well the swine would be a bit sick alright. My first thought was bacon!

Ah the immense satisfaction of succeeding in putting up a greenhouse/polytunnel with a couple of false starts - in mitigation in one place the instructions were vague and in another they were plain wrong. Anyway we finally figured it out. I reckon if we get a season out of it we will be lucky. It might help us decide if we want a 'proper' greenhouse though. Its a Topline, Proplus gardening Premium Polytunnel greenhouse. If this is premium I wouldn't want to be stuck with a standard one!

When life gets back to normal I will try and get some waterproof Mammoth transparent tape and seal the seams, it also needs a bit more flap on the bottom to dig in, I think I could do that with duck/duct tape and polythene from the inside.

Ok, pics tomorrow! It doesn't look very pretty at the moment as the ground is all dug up and scruffy around it, but we did find a couple of old tables/ structures to provided seed shelf areas. And I stapled the small flap at the bottom onto strips of timber (with tape to stop it tearing the plastic) then buried and weighted down the timber strip, so I don't think it will unfold itself from the bottom.

So, the greenhouse. Today was a bit breezy, not a gale just March/April breezy (and we are on the side of a mountain, pretty much). So the greenhouse filled out like a balloon and managed to shed the row of mighty rocks down one side. So we tied and pinned it all back down again, then found a monolith that we put inside and roped the frame to as the entire frame was lifting. We then faffed about putting all kinds of greenhousy things into it then went in for lunch.

When we came back out one side of the cover had dealt with the limitations by simply ripping out the numerous staples, the timber was still tied to the frame but the side was ablowin' in the wind.

So we decided to find another spot for it. Even though we have an acre of garden there are serious limitations on where it could be put for all kinds of complicated layout and exposure reasons. There is one spot though that gets sun and would be rather more sheltered. Only problem was there is a very large heap of large rocks (there are heaps of large rocks all around the place) right where we want to put it. So an energetic afternoon followed shifting rocks. If the weather is calm tomorrow we will do a wholesale removal of the structure. If you don't hear from me again its because we are sailing skyward hanging onto an inflated greenhouse.