Monday 11 February 2013

Allotment Excitement

After years of waiting, we were finally given an allotment plot this October.  A lot of digging has already been done.  I'm now getting stuck into the planning, I can't wait!

Our cat has the serious hump as every window sill is covered in pots of seeds.  At first I bought a couple of propergators from Homebase at £3.99 a piece.  It quickly occurred to me that if I wanted to plant everything I had on my mind, that this was going to get VERY expensive.  So off I went to Tescos and sought consent to raid the plastics bin dumped in the middle of an aisle.  I came back with a couple of bags of shopping and around 15 odd assorted shaped plastic yoghurt trays.  Treasure at it's best.

I took to planting up the trays with my little Berries, they loved getting their hands dirty and planting the seeds.  Littlest Berry said 'night night' seeds when he covered them over.

Three days later we have a result in one of the propergators, unbelivably the Calliflower had germinated!  Older Berry noticed and bought the propergator to us to see with a massive grin on his face.  It's wonderful seeing them so happy that they'd made something grow.

We're waiting on germination of leeks, giant leeks, sweetcorn, parsnip and courgette.  I have some hanging Petunia seeds on their way too - I better go raid Tesco's plastic tubs again. 

New Compressed Sure

I'm in love with anything that I use regularly that can be shrunk to handbag size.  Imagine my delight when I came across new Sure Compact. 

This was sent to me by BZZ on trial, I was sceptical I have to admit, how on earth after all these years of big cans could a 150ml can be compressed to 75ml with the same amount of product in?

Of course I've been proven wrong, the product is ace, and oh yes, it fits into my smallest bag (did I mention that already lol).

I'm an avid Sure users and I can safely say after several weeks of road testing it - it's just as effective.  My conscience is a little eased too, knowing this uses less gas and packaging.  Can only be a good thing.