Toolbag Tales-Homemade and improvised tools

[Vic Evans]

Fed up using piddly little rake to clear up windfall apples prior to mowing I knocked up this 1m monster. Turn it upside down & it's brilliant for smoothing out molehills.

[Expertamateur]

My apple trees haven't produced more than half a dozen fruits in the years since planting, but I do have moles aplenty. Two or three barrow loads of dirt to shift daily if I can be bothered.

I think I have seen you on a Brittany forum but not by username.

[myglaren]

As posted previously I bought some tiny (2 mm) machine screws and nuts and found difficulty fitting them, then found a nut spinner that helped a lot but unable to find a tool, screwdriver/Allen key or whatever to drive the screw.
Perhaps this is why:-

Needs a lot of zooming despite using the Macro setting.

[myglaren]

I have a set of ladders hanging on the garden wall that I often use for bringing seedlings along.

Ladders and Lily

With all the recent rain the seed trays were flooded and the seedlings looking very sorry for themselves.
Brought them inside to dry out but of course they don't get the light that they need.

A while back I bought a couple of LED strings, supposedly for son's garage as he doesn't like the fluorescent there. They proved to be slightly unsuitable once tested, and needed beefier drivers. Bought such that cost ore then the strings. One set went in my attic and the other floated around here. Different, mains driven and waterproof ones with remote controls bought for the garage, much to son's approval.

Anyway did a Heat Robinson bodge and strung up temporary growlights at no cost to the management.

[CitroJim]

Excellent! I trust the plants will thank you in due course

[myglaren]

The slugs may

[Gibbo2286]

Talking about slugs, I had some milk that had gone off a bit thought the birds might use it up so I pit it in a bowl on the back garden path, the milk was still there this morning and floating in it are about fifty drowned slugs.

[myglaren]

I may try that. Have used yeast before now.
Slug pellets seem to be banned, I just scattered the last a few days ago, ones my daughter bought about ten years ago. I try to avoid them but gave in.

[CitroJim]

Having a flock of chickens roaming your garden is allegedly a good way to keep slugs and snails at bay... Plus, as a bonus, you have a ready supply of eggs...

Maybe Sticky of this parish can confirm the above...

[myglaren]

Only room for half a chicken in my garden. Most of the stuff I have planted is in communal (i.e. council) land in the car park outside.

[Vic Evans]

Having a flock of chickens roaming your garden is allegedly a good way to keep slugs and snails at bay... Plus, as a bonus, you have a ready supply of eggs...

Maybe Sticky of this parish can confirm the above...

We've got chooks in a large enclosure who, when the escape committee is active, scratch at the wood chipping flower bed's mulch & fling it all over the lawns making a hell of a mess.
Great fun to watch but not so funny when Mme Vic goes ballistic

[CitroJim]

Having a flock of chickens roaming your garden is allegedly a good way to keep slugs and snails at bay... Plus, as a bonus, you have a ready supply of eggs...

Maybe Sticky of this parish can confirm the above...

We've got chooks in a large enclosure who, when the escape committee is active, scratch at the wood chipping flower bed's mulch & fling it all over the lawns making a hell of a mess.
Great fun to watch but not so funny when Mme Vic goes ballistic

I can just picture the scene Vic

[Stickyfinger]

Having a flock of chickens roaming your garden is allegedly a good way to keep slugs and snails at bay... Plus, as a bonus, you have a ready supply of eggs...

Maybe Sticky of this parish can confirm the above...

ALL my chickens avoided slugs after their first try....and snails...woodlice however, they were like catnip to them

[CitroJim]

Having a flock of chickens roaming your garden is allegedly a good way to keep slugs and snails at bay... Plus, as a bonus, you have a ready supply of eggs...

Maybe Sticky of this parish can confirm the above...

ALL my chickens avoided slugs after their first try....and snails...woodlice however, they were like catnip to them

Woodlice = chicken catnip Love it!

I heard the recommendation for chickens to control slugs from a panellist on the BBC's Gardener's Question Time. I have zero interest in gardening but quite enjoy GQT... I think more for the panellist banter than the subject...

[moizeau]

Never seen our chickens eat slugs, they prefer left over rice, pasta. fried potato peelings. Dandelions, pulled from the field opposite, are very good for them and give their eggs a far richer flavour. They also get chicken food.