Forum: Green Tips & Green Fingers
04-10-2009, 01:07 AM
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alpines
anyone know about alpines and most importantly where i might pick some up at a good price in the dun laoghaire area or i will travel for these too, i have to say.
want to know too, about bamboo as...
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Forum: Home Improvements
01-10-2009, 01:24 AM
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Replies: 7
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we had them towed away
these sheds were not gonna work! by the time we spent repairing the rotting boards,there were a few, get more roof felt, carriage to my place and it will be cheaper buying them.
anyone know of...
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Forum: Home Improvements
23-09-2009, 10:21 PM
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Replies: 7
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thanks for those two comments-bit nervous!!
thanks for these comments. I am not sure how well they were taken down given the person doing so had a broken elbow and using a crow bar, not to mentin having parkinsons disease!!!!!
yes, well, she...
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Forum: Green Tips & Green Fingers
23-09-2009, 05:37 PM
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preserving dead wood
I managed to get some cut down tree trunks of varying sizes for bird tables and feeder posts, but i would like to preserve the wood.
I dont want anything that will take from the natural colour, nor...
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Forum: Home Improvements
14-09-2009, 03:06 AM
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Replies: 54
Views: 32,141
Breaking news!
whether my appearance in the cul de sac did it or not, whether i painted my hoose did it too i cannot tell, but the two men on either side of me have been beavering away on their 'hooses' the man to...
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Forum: Home Improvements
14-09-2009, 02:59 AM
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Replies: 7
Views: 7,462
thanks M
Hi, thanks for that comment M, I think i will give it a go and get them taken down. Or i shall try myself.
I think that if anything is literally 'ripped up' then they have a poor chance of survival....
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Forum: Home Improvements
13-09-2009, 09:11 PM
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Replies: 7
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reassembling barna type sheds - difficult?
sis has two barna type sheds, look fantastic inside and not corroded much on outside either. they have been in situa a good seven years.
Is it really that hard to reassemble when they are taken...
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Forum: Home Improvements
08-09-2009, 11:12 PM
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Replies: 20
Views: 19,183
will do
hi i am ringing munster tomorrow, after some teeth are pulled!
hey, summersun, i got the buy and sell, great rag that.
now as i told mandolin, we have had a seminal moment in the yard, a visit from a...
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Forum: Green Tips & Green Fingers
07-09-2009, 10:49 PM
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Replies: 13
Views: 6,840
hi summersun
Yes, i would love the number for the makeover. I am completely overwhelmed now.
I am looking forward to meeting bluecurley girl i have to say, must get in touch with her.
I think i am at an all time...
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Forum: Home Improvements
07-09-2009, 07:27 AM
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Replies: 20
Views: 19,183
thank you
Thank you 4Eyes and Summersun.
Yes i know that magazine and used to get it. Will get again tomorrow.
I have to get the patio doors as really tis an urgency now and i simply have to see as much of...
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Forum: Green Tips & Green Fingers
04-09-2009, 09:37 AM
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Replies: 13
Views: 6,840
Ah Plums!
Yes I can go for plums ok! and the pots and carrots, iffy about the others, had a 'bad experience' with pumkin pie in Canada, the vilest thing i ever tasted!!!!
that was over 30yrs ago and still...
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Forum: Home Improvements
04-09-2009, 01:43 AM
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Replies: 5
Views: 4,962
thaks
thats great, and sounds easy! I will do defo.
the office part of new hoose is just about complete and absolutely thrilled.
No extra expense on it bar the tiles and some wall brackets.
Everybit of it...
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Forum: Green Tips & Green Fingers
04-09-2009, 01:40 AM
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Replies: 13
Views: 6,840
Nope!!!!
Cant eat any of these veggies!
I am allowed eat stuff like carrots, potatoes, cucumber, i do eat peas so could give em a try.
Have to eat a very low fibre diet.
gonna try tomatoes too later but...
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Forum: Green Tips & Green Fingers
04-09-2009, 01:25 AM
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Replies: 5
Views: 5,524
any bendy wire mandolin
Mandoline have you any bendy wire when the time comes and the climbers get bigger and need the support, you mentioned this in an early post.
xxminnie pal.
If i attempt a few fushia cuttings would you...
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Forum: Green Tips & Green Fingers
04-09-2009, 01:22 AM
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Replies: 10
Views: 7,756
spreading wildly
Well so far i have 'mile a minute' which i have got rid of as it hadnt infiltrated any vegetation below the high wall.
I have bishops weed which is to be got rid of but is contained.
and now i have...
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Forum: Home Improvements
04-09-2009, 01:16 AM
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Replies: 20
Views: 19,183
seriously looking
this is an urgency now, anyone around who can help me!!!
xxminnie pal
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Forum: Green Tips & Green Fingers
04-09-2009, 01:12 AM
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Replies: 4
Views: 4,446
thanks for reply Mandolin
thanks for those tips.
I am so angry that i never put broken crock at bottom of pots.
they are in now at present, but not drying out fast.
there are a few more in the raised bed too.
i would try move...
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Forum: Green Tips & Green Fingers
04-09-2009, 01:07 AM
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Replies: 2
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thanks for reply Mandolin
I will do that mandolin, I am so thrilled with em. Its a great start i have to say.
Will you look at my idea for the garden design of back wall etc and tell me what you think would love that.
I hope...
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Forum: Green Tips & Green Fingers
04-09-2009, 12:29 AM
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Replies: 13
Views: 6,840
hello there Moloney!
Yes, i like your idea of Bud being 'framed in red and the climbers you suggest.
today i was looking at that very tall wall, there is a square type rotting trellis on it. birds were literally...
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Forum: Home Improvements
02-09-2009, 08:31 PM
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Replies: 5
Views: 4,962
painting cork tiles
want to use cork tiles stuck on wall in office area, cheaper that way, but dont like the brown, can i spray paint them when they are in situ?
xminnie pal
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Forum: Green Tips & Green Fingers
02-09-2009, 08:29 PM
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Replies: 2
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thanks mandolin for cuttings, er now what!!!?
Mandolin, i am so grateful for the cuttings, but the weather is atrocious here and the patio/yard no way ready to decide where they go and no green house.
I am embarrassed to say i dont know how to...
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Forum: Green Tips & Green Fingers
02-09-2009, 08:24 PM
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Replies: 0
Views: 4,230
painting plastic kitchen bin
it was suggested that my old grey plastic flip bin would make a good laundry basket.
I think i will give this a go. Can you paint these bins, they have a roughish texture, if they can could i use a...
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Forum: Green Tips & Green Fingers
01-09-2009, 12:56 AM
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Replies: 4
Views: 4,446
seriously worried about raspberry transplants
sorting the raspberry canes from utter chaos found in new hoose, I decided to transplant them into compost, a cane per pot and also a trough with about six canes.
I left some in the very hot area,...
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Forum: Home Improvements
31-08-2009, 11:33 PM
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Replies: 54
Views: 32,141
Da door!
Hi,
I LOVE the door! the local kids call it 'deadly' that is the whole colour scheme, the next door neighbour said its fab.
Polish PA, loves the door and thinks the green is wishy...
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Forum: Green Tips & Green Fingers
31-08-2009, 08:49 PM
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Replies: 13
Views: 6,840
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