I have started buying your bags since around July when you were selling off the last of your clear bags from Thebarton. I really like them. I just finished those and they are moist when I opened, I even fixed a hydrophobic strawberry bed which dried out after I left it bare for a week after weeding by watering until rehydrated then adding your compost and coco to them and then mulching. What I do with your bags (I get all 3) is keep them in my outdoor area with an old sheet over them so they don’t dry out.
I’ve just started several raised box beds like Vasili’s. Bought mine from local fruit processing factory here in the Dandenongs. They also had plastic core flute available which I’ve cut to size & stapled in (also on base, but put some holes in for drainage) My bins have 5-10mm gaps in side boards, so the lining works well. Hopefully also some ‘insulation’ from the drying out Vasili spoke of. We’ll see in weeks ahead. 😊
I just rode my Apollo go all the way home 25ks ride! I think with hills with the charging pedal battery regeneration break the battery bars was going down a bar up the hill then up a bar again after going down the hill! It's nice ay! I got home with 2 bars left!
@ he did a video about it recently, which you could search for. But basically it is wetting your mulch adding some compost, liquid seaweed and worm castings if you have it and then you let it sit for a few days until it ferments and gets smelly then you put it on your garden beds. Hope that helps
I’m using nothing cause I don’t have this shrinkage problem in Sydney,but if anyone is interested in obtaining some Vatican chillies direct from the Vatican and yes they have been blessed ,let me know through these comments,scovialle heat unit on the chillies is up to 1.5 million.seeds were brought in like the malaka tomatoes years ago and only 4 families in Sydney have these growing plus one Greek in Marulan near Goulburn.they will tolerate frost and yield per year once established is up to 60-70 chillies 🌶,will mail out seeds as I have thousands,that goes for you Vasili as well and you can trial them personally in your cold environment
I’m using 600mm x 600mm plywood pallets screwed together to create a raised bed, they sit straight on the ground, don’t have any openings on the sides but still get some shrinkage, I put it down to the sun contacting the soil, the beds that are mulched with tree mulch don’t shrink. But the mulched ones don’t have sun/soil contact. These are temporary until I build my concrete sleeper beds, I’m guessing with the concrete sleepers I may get shrinkage due to the hard surfaces being in contact with the sun generating more heat for a longer period.
Rehydrating soil faster, can use an organic wetting agent. We buy a liquid organic hand soap that is also useful as a few drops in a watering can on dry soils and dry pots.......for us in a hurry to get the re-hydration quickly.
I have started buying your bags since around July when you were selling off the last of your clear bags from Thebarton. I really like them. I just finished those and they are moist when I opened, I even fixed a hydrophobic strawberry bed which dried out after I left it bare for a week after weeding by watering until rehydrated then adding your compost and coco to them and then mulching. What I do with your bags (I get all 3) is keep them in my outdoor area with an old sheet over them so they don’t dry out.
I’ve just started several raised box beds like Vasili’s. Bought mine from local fruit processing factory here in the Dandenongs. They also had plastic core flute available which I’ve cut to size & stapled in (also on base, but put some holes in for drainage) My bins have 5-10mm gaps in side boards, so the lining works well. Hopefully also some ‘insulation’ from the drying out Vasili spoke of. We’ll see in weeks ahead. 😊
I just rode my Apollo go all the way home 25ks ride! I think with hills with the charging pedal battery regeneration break the battery bars was going down a bar up the hill then up a bar again after going down the hill! It's nice ay! I got home with 2 bars left!
Fantastic idea again. I put my activated mulch out yesterday and going to start more today
Hi, I’m new to this page. What do you mean by “activated mulch” please?
@ he did a video about it recently, which you could search for. But basically it is wetting your mulch adding some compost, liquid seaweed and worm castings if you have it and then you let it sit for a few days until it ferments and gets smelly then you put it on your garden beds. Hope that helps
I’m using nothing cause I don’t have this shrinkage problem in Sydney,but if anyone is interested in obtaining some Vatican chillies direct from the Vatican and yes they have been blessed ,let me know through these comments,scovialle heat unit on the chillies is up to 1.5 million.seeds were brought in like the malaka tomatoes years ago and only 4 families in Sydney have these growing plus one Greek in Marulan near Goulburn.they will tolerate frost and yield per year once established is up to 60-70 chillies 🌶,will mail out seeds as I have thousands,that goes for you Vasili as well and you can trial them personally in your cold environment
I’m using 600mm x 600mm plywood pallets screwed together to create a raised bed, they sit straight on the ground, don’t have any openings on the sides but still get some shrinkage, I put it down to the sun contacting the soil, the beds that are mulched with tree mulch don’t shrink. But the mulched ones don’t have sun/soil contact. These are temporary until I build my concrete sleeper beds, I’m guessing with the concrete sleepers I may get shrinkage due to the hard surfaces being in contact with the sun generating more heat for a longer period.
Rehydrating soil faster, can use an organic wetting agent. We buy a liquid organic hand soap that is also useful as a few drops in a watering can on dry soils and dry pots.......for us in a hurry to get the re-hydration quickly.
That brushwood screen fencing attached to the outside would have to be best.
Brilliant idea
I use black plastic to line the boards. You get it for free off building sites l pin the plastic at the top with 40mm laths cut from palings.
The man made geoengineered weather you mean. It's the same here in UK and driving growers mad.
Those slabs of straw are called biscuits!
Straw would probably be better on the outside. Need to grow something on the outside to provide a barrier
Use plastic forest garden beds had them 5 years don't diterrant hold the moisture been great
Hi, What are plastic forest garden beds. Just googled and couldn't find anything? Thanks
@GavinDaniell there are a nsw company using recycled plastic
Tried to send pic but can't do it. self sufficient me done a story on them awhile ago