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Post by SueA on Oct 4, 2015 20:08:39 GMT
I'll share the royalties on the 'Flower Shower' with you Roofy!  Splitter sounds like a good idea, worth a try if it's not too expensive.  |
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Post by roofgardener on Oct 5, 2015 11:36:32 GMT
I'll share the royalties on the 'Flower Shower' with you Roofy! Splitter sounds like a good idea, worth a try if it's not too expensive. You're on SueA. I'll start ordering the parts next weekend, and hopefully have a prototype ready for the following weekend, weather permitting. The grow-house is just the thing for a couple-or-three Onions Troughs, which I will need within the next month or so, so the timing is perfect. |
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Post by roofgardener on Oct 5, 2015 11:50:16 GMT
Buttastrophic News
My feet are wet. And WHY are my feet wet ? Because the water butt near my PT has split , and is creating a small lake at the PT entrance, 'wot I have to wade through each time I go inside it !  I've frantically tried to empty it (the plants have never BEEN so thoroughly watered). It only lasted a couple of years  The tap was pants anyway. I'm going to buy another black garden bin to replace it. They are a more practical size, and easier to reach into. |
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Post by roofgardener on Oct 5, 2015 12:59:32 GMT
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Plantopticon News
Well, I've put some insulating bubblewrap around the roof of the Polytunnel, as suggested by daitheplant in the Feeling the Heat thread. Sadly, there wasn't as much as I anticipated. Due to one of those trivial little arithmetical and/or proof-reading errors that is such a regular feature of Roofgarden life, I received just 2.5m of the stuff, instead of the anticipated 25m. Still, that is enough to cover the bulk of the overhead arc, for 70% of the length of the PT, so its bound to help.
Be that is it may, I'm re-thinking my plan to heat the entire PT to Germination temperature. Instead.... I have firkled around under the Plastic Table, and dragged the Heliothermic Plantopticon out of retirement !
Indeed, I've stretched out the heater cable a bit, and into a second (smaller) box, so I now have TWO Heliothermic Plantopticons.
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I've brought both 'Opticons up to temperature (up to 30 degrees, actually), so I know that the heater wire is sufficient to heat both boxes; now I just need to calibrate it for 15-20 degrees.
As a trial, I didn't bother with seedpots in the new unit. I've just planted seeds directly into the soil. I used a wire-mesh shelf from one of my (redundant) shelf units to act as a seed-planting guide.
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Who's a clever roofgardener then ? (waits for general acclaim and praise)  (total silence falls) |
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Post by grindle on Oct 5, 2015 13:50:47 GMT
good luck roofy with all that hard work you deserve to grow prize winners |
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Post by roofgardener on Oct 5, 2015 13:54:47 GMT
Well, no giant onions unfortunately Grindle - perhaps next year ?
But I have high hopes for my Bedfordshire Champions, the Visions, and the Alisia Craigs.
(but they are not scheduled for planting until late December)
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Post by grindle on Oct 5, 2015 13:57:42 GMT
you'll be an expert by then |
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Post by roofgardener on Oct 5, 2015 14:09:41 GMT
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Post by dianthus on Oct 5, 2015 15:25:48 GMT
Buttastrophic News
My feet are wet. And WHY are my feet wet ? Because the water butt near my PT has split , and is creating a small lake at the PT entrance, 'wot I have to wade through each time I go inside it ! I've frantically tried to empty it (the plants have never BEEN so thoroughly watered). It only lasted a couple of years The tap was pants anyway. I'm going to buy another black garden bin to replace it. They are a more practical size, and easier to reach into. Most gardeners have a pair of wellingtons, Roofy  |
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Post by roofgardener on Oct 5, 2015 15:29:54 GMT
Indeed so dianthus. However, for some incomprehensible reason I thought that being 20' above ground, on an asphalt roof, I wouldn't need them. Amateur mistake ! |
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Post by grindle on Oct 5, 2015 16:00:49 GMT
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Post by SueA on Oct 5, 2015 19:07:47 GMT
Brilliant grindle, just tell your landlord that's how you'll be paying your rent next year Roofy! |
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Post by dianthus on Oct 5, 2015 20:30:35 GMT
Indeed so dianthus. However, for some incomprehensible reason I thought that being 20' above ground, on an asphalt roof, I wouldn't need them. Amateur mistake ! They also stop compost getting inside your footwear, like trainers manage to do |
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Post by roofgardener on Oct 5, 2015 20:33:56 GMT
AHA ! GOTCHA. I don't use trainers... I use Clogs. So called, presumably, because they don't get clogged up with compost |
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Post by dianthus on Oct 5, 2015 21:56:42 GMT
Ask the Dutch, Roofy.... they originated them, I believe. |
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Splitter sounds like a good idea, worth a try if it's not too expensive. 
