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  • BushMoot: Come along to the amazing Summer Moot 31st July - 5th August (extended Moot : 27th July - 8th August), a festival of bushcrafting and camping in a beautiful woodland PLEASE CLICK HERE for more information.
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    Toddy reacted to GreyCat's post in the thread What are you growing? with Love Love.
    Having managed to get the polytunnel covers on during that brief warm spell in March, I have at last got the tunnels organised and a...
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    Toddy reacted to GreyCat's post in the thread What are you growing? with Like Like.
    Yeah, bamboo does get a bad press because most of those who plant it don't knwo how to manage it. It is controlled by pruning the roots...
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    Toddy reacted to StevieE's post in the thread What are you growing? with Like Like.
    Im ashamed to say apart from tending to our general fauna I have nothing in the greenhouse, raised bed or ground this year. Hopefully...
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    Toddy reacted to Woody girl's post in the thread What are you growing? with Like Like.
    A couple more courgettes went in today, and I got two cucumbers at the market yesterday. Never grown them before but I have a little...
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    Toddy reacted to slowworm's post in the thread What are you growing? with Like Like.
    First new potatoes of the year. A couple of spare seed spuds popped into the greenhouse before the tomatoes get planted out.
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    Toddy reacted to Nice65's post in the thread What are you growing? with Like Like.
    We should start a landscaping advisory service :35:
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    Toddy replied to the thread Coping with the heat..
    I wear a UV40+ one of those too. Nothing expensive, pretty sure it's Korean though, and those folks really do do their sunblock stuff...
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    Toddy reacted to Falstaff's post in the thread Coping with the heat. with Sad Sad.
    It took a while, but Aussies have got it sorted now, kids from toddler stage learn to get covered in sunscreen and all have hats with...
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    Toddy reacted to Silverclaws2's post in the thread Coping with the heat. with Like Like.
    Also don't forget the electrolytes as electrolyte depletion has a role to play in staying cool, fit and healthy. Edited to add ' to...
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    Toddy replied to the thread Coping with the heat..
    I worked outdoors in all weathers all year round. I am fair skinned, lightly freckled, green eyes, fair bit of red in my hair. I do...
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    Toddy reacted to Silverclaws2's post in the thread Coping with the heat. with Like Like.
    Ever since I quit the military I have outside worn a hat to have rather a large collection of hats of various types, the current a...
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    Toddy reacted to Herman30's post in the thread Coping with the heat. with Sad Sad.
    I fear the sun because my father got cancer on his earlobe. He has always been without head cover or at the most a cap that do not shade...
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    Toddy replied to the thread Coping with the heat..
    @Broch Every word of that is true round here too. We joke about the Taps Aff thing the minute there's a gleam of sunshine, but...
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    Toddy reacted to Herman30's post in the thread Coping with the heat. with Like Like.
    To get draught there needs to be windows on two, opposite, walls. I have windows on only one wall so no through drought is possible. So...
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    Toddy reacted to Broch's post in the thread Coping with the heat. with Like Like.
    The barn we live in was built as a threshing barn - it's designed for the lightest breeze to blow through :) Loose, light, clothing...