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Posted: 11:55 - 05 Mar 2014 Post subject: |
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It's saystemic weedkiller. It kills growing plants if it comes in contact with their leaves. As son as it hits the ground, it is inactivated.
It's not the fastest acting, it actually makes stuff grow too fast and burn itself out.
An interesting thing I have seen done using glyphosate is to prep and sow an area of grass then wait. The weeds invariably start coming back up before the grass but you can safely re-apply the glyphosate as long as the grass still isn't showing through. This kills the weeds and the grass gets a good start. Well established grass will then prevent the weeds coming through, especially once you start cutting it.
My Grandad (who was a professional gardener, he used to head up the behind the scenes team at the BBC Beechgrove) did this to recover the walled garden at our old house which was in a similar state to yours. He cut it back, rotovated, hit it twice with glyphosate then planted the whole lot in grass as I just described.
Once it had the grass established for a couple of years, he then took the turf off to use elsewhere in the garden and re-made the vegetable beds with plenty of farmyard manure. I remember him saying it was the grass that got rid of the weeds, the weedkiller just put him in a position to plant the grass. ____________________ “Rule one: Always stick around for one more drink. That's when things happen. That's when you find out everything you want to know.”
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Not sure if it's been considered but With the amount of land you have in need of attention, I'd defo be thinking about a ground heat pump, if your doing the labour on the ground anyway you only have to buy the equipment
On a good size scale they are extremely effective, have a look on here, I'd of thought you can get it a lot cheaper than they say though, especially if you've done most of the labour and will be replacing the grass yourself etc
https://www.energysavingtrust.org.uk/Generating-energy/Choosing-a-renewable-technology/Ground-source-heat-pumps ____________________ KLX 300r |
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Yes. If I was building a new house, I'd make sure a got a large and intelligently designed heat store in there thatcan be fed into by various heatsources such as a heat pump, solar and other future developments (waste water heat exchangers?).
I would also run ethernet cable all over the place and back to a patch panel so everywhere can be connected to everywhere else. IP cameras, HDMI etc. ____________________ “Rule one: Always stick around for one more drink. That's when things happen. That's when you find out everything you want to know.”
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And exterior lights - definitely put in the wiring for exterior lights.
I've put a few of these on a front of property wall facing back to the house triggered by a PIR. If someone comes through the front gate it lights up the front of the house without turning it into a stalag. It also makes finding your keys and opening the front door easier when you get home.
Similarly I've a few on the walls in the back garden.
I went for those as they are cheap and simple. When I bought them they were nearer £3 each and they've been up around 6 years with no problems.
EDIT: Link to the lights
https://www.screwfix.com/p/napoli-oval-60w-matt-white-bulkhead/33673 |
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Sounds good man ____________________ KLX 300r |
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Looks good ____________________ KTM 990 SMT & Suzuki DR-Z 400 SM |
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Feels good ____________________
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Rather than having an expanse of grass, why not have an unkempt area of meadow flowers and long grasses, it will attract bees and butterflies and be an interesting part of the garden to see from the windows.
I'd also have a few raised beds to grow food. Oh and the obligatory fig tree. ____________________ Be who you are and say what you feel, because those who mind don't matter, and those who matter won't mind - Dr. Seuss |
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Oh and another thing...on your plans your large larder is in the lounge rather than the kitchen? We used to have a larder store when I was a kid, it mean that kitchen cupboard space was for crockery / pans etc. no unsightly fridge/freezer (country kitchen with Aga). Make sure you think this one through. It's only a minor thing, but every time you want something from the larder you have to physically leave the kitchen to get to it.
I currently live in lodgings where my landlady has suddenly omitted the kitchen door, to make the downstairs open plan. Its awful when she cooks, because the smells drift upstairs into my room. Unfortunately she cooks and eats sometimes as late as 10.30pm (and yes she's a large lady).
So for me, being able to shut off the kitchen is important. Or at least having a door to stop downstairs smells going upstairs in the first place. ____________________ Be who you are and say what you feel, because those who mind don't matter, and those who matter won't mind - Dr. Seuss |
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Bubbs wrote: | The future dream is to fuck work off and live off the land. |
Mmm, mixed feelings about the feasibility of that. My parents tried it in the late 1960s and early 1970s. They read John Seymour's Self Sufficiency - a lovely but dangerous book - and decamped to the middle of nowhere in Wales to put it into practice with three children. We grew our own vegetables, raised and ate our own cows/sheep/pigs, even made our own cheese and salted our own pork.
Parts of it were good, in some ways it was even the rural idyll my parents had hoped for. For example, as an 8-year old I used to handmilk one of our two Jerseys and that was a comforting and satisfying routine. Watching the pigs being slaughtered or assisting a difficult lambing in a muddy field at 2am on a February morning in the sleet was less idyllic. I admired the grit of the farm vets we used back then - maybe the boy Stinkwheel still gets to do that sort of thing.
Anyway, in the end we found out the hard way that true self-sufficiency is impractical for all but a dedicated few these days, what with various cash outgoings for electricity, cars, taxes and so on.
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Maybe do a part time job so things can tick over and pull out of the rat race. |
This, on the other hand, could work. Bear in mind that the physical effort required by self-sufficiency can be significant and that it won't get any easier as you and your partner get older. However, if it's just a sideline it would certainly keep you moving and active, which the other job may not. Hens are nice and easy way to start if you have children by the way.
Ironically the property I now own is very near to where John Seymour himself lived, though I have no plans to do any of that myself. There's so much cheap and organically grown veg about here that it seems foolish to spend time on it myself! |
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Old Thread Alert!
The last post was made 10 years, 53 days ago. Instead of replying here, would creating a new thread be more useful? |
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