What did you do in the garden today?

[ChikaBoom]

Kale,squash,tomatoes,mint,avocado,pineapple,cilantro bathing in the sunlight even thru this cold snap lol down here in sunny WinterHaven florida.Happy Thanksgiving yall

 

[chickadoodles]

Based on your cold frame pic, I'm not sure what I'm seeing. The roof of it needs to be sturdy enough that snow load will not collapse it. (If you get snow) If you don't get snow, it should be bowed up so that rain does not settle onto it and collapse it. It also needs to be secure enough that the wind doesn't grab it and take it sailing.

We don't get snow but we will get rain. I will have to try something else. Thanks I looked at some online and I am not sure why but they were all flat glass windows.
That is why I did it this way. And I am not sure why my dh picked one with no glass in it because we have a stack of windows. lol

 

[lazy gardener]

My hay bale CF has a patio door glass panel for the top. It's about 74 x 30". I made a 2 x 4 frame, giving a bit of clearance on each side, and then screwed strapping to the outside of the frame to keep the glass from sliding off or being lifted off in a wind storm. Even though the frame is super heavy, it's easy to move b/c it's rested on strapping, and I'm using a fiberglass fence post as a roller.

 

[chickadoodles]

My hay bale CF has a patio door glass panel for the top. It's about 74 x 30". I made a 2 x 4 frame, giving a bit of clearance on each side, and then screwed strapping to the outside of the frame to keep the glass from sliding off or being lifted off in a wind storm. Even though the frame is super heavy, it's easy to move b/c it's rested on strapping, and I'm using a fiberglass fence post as a roller.

Thanks I appreciate your help. We will see what we can come up with when we get back from Florida Fri.

 

[chickadoodles]

HAPPY THANKSGIVING EVERYONE!

 

[dan26552]

I'm really disappointed In March I broke a hoe that I've had for probably the last 5 years and so we bought another (same brand) and by May the head was wiggling and in August it came out I've tried using hose clamps to put it back together but it doesn't want to stay. It was a really nice hoe and I don't think it was any less than $30 it's just so agravating you can find decent tools anymore.

 

[dan26552]

 

[lazy gardener]

Dan, as for the hoe, I'd march it right back to where ever I bought it. If it was purchased with a credit card, they should be able to access the sale records. Unacceptable IMO.

As far as a tree with legal rights, while the original land owner can do what he wants, and deed his land that way, giving ownership of land to offspring of such a plant is a slippery slope, and moving into pagan territory, IMO. I'm sure I've opened a can of worms, so this is the last comment I'll make re: the oak and his progeny.

 

[dan26552]

Dan, as for the hoe, I'd march it right back to where ever I bought it.  If it was purchased with a credit card, they should be able to access the sale records.  Unacceptable IMO.  

As far as a tree  with legal rights, while the original land owner can do what he wants, and deed his land that way, giving ownership of land to offspring of such a plant is a slippery slope, and moving into pagan territory, IMO.  I'm sure I've opened a can of worms, so this is the last comment I'll make re: the oak and his progeny.

I think it was TSC. I'll look into it.

Good point.

 

[jerryse]

I'm really disappointed

In March I broke a hoe that I've had for probably the last 5 years and so we bought another (same brand) and by May the head was wiggling and in August it came out

I've tried using hose clamps to put it back together but it doesn't want to stay. It was a really nice hoe and I don't think it was any less than $30 it's just so agravating you can find decent tools anymore.

I have used epoxy glue on this type of problem . The old timers would soak wooden handles to tighten them . Wood is a variable product It shrinks and expands plus with use it can compress making a loose fit . This is why you see more and more wooden handles secured with epoxy . Usually hammers , sledge hammers and splitting mauls .