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gardener
Joined: 17 Sep 2007
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Location: SW Ireland
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 Posted: Tue Sep 25, 2007 11:45 pm Post subject: |
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| Quote: | if no volunteers are forthcoming we will have to revert to the traditional method of recruitment --- the newest member gets it by default .
For the benefit of the unsuspecting Gardener , I think it is , you can get out of this in a limited number of ways :- |
Oops, unsuspecting gardener has only just found this thread! 
I am so glad someone joined after me so the job goes to them ....but I could have found a good and true excuse - I'd have been totally hopeless as anyones social secretary! 
Great to see the pictures above, that looks like a good day was had.
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Joined: 13 Dec 2006
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| Posted: Wed Sep 26, 2007 10:27 pm Post subject: |
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| gardener wrote: | | .. - I'd have been totally hopeless as anyones social secretary! ... |
You sound like exactly the right sort of person then !!! .
You see , we don't want anyone to actually organise anything .... heavens forbid ... everyone would run a mile ! But never mind  .... come in Country Bumpkin , we know you are out there somewhere .
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Rebecca
Joined: 14 Dec 2006
Posts: 124
Location: Ireland, Co Leitrim
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| Posted: Sat Sep 29, 2007 5:50 pm Post subject: |
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Hiya
We may be able to help, on a weekend? Doh - I only saw the first page of posts, have just found the rest, jobs done, tunnel up, great stuff.
We put up our tunnel polythene in a half day.... just the 2 of us (2 other friends couldn't make it at last minute)... I dropped kids to school & playschool then we immediately got hot spot tape on and polythene pulled over with ropes within two hours. Thats all the time we had! We just put spade fulls of soil onto the polythene on one side every metre or so to secure it. Then took another 2 hours for OH to fill it in and get the far side filled and tensioned too.
Our tunnel is on clay soil so we dug the trench 2 spades depth, and put land drain pipe into it, draining out to a ditch. Then a little gravel on top of that, then the plastic (with slits where it lay on the gravel to allow run off from the tunnel to reach the land drain), buried in that to about one spades depth.
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wayland
Joined: 14 Dec 2006
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Location: Campile. Wexford
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| Posted: Sun Sep 30, 2007 7:00 am Post subject: |
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| Rebecca wrote: | Hiya
We may be able to help, on a weekend? Doh - I only saw the first page of posts, have just found the rest, jobs done, tunnel up, great stuff.
We put up our tunnel polythene in a half day.... |
It took us all day Mind you, by the time we all got to meet each other and chew the fat a bit it was midday. Then we were well fed by Melimelo, tea and fag breaks, I suppose actual work time was a couple of hours
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