I’ve spent the last two days, taking down a second hand greenhouse…this is a photograph I took, to remind me of how it looked…
Greenhouse with all glass removed
so I can re-assemble the hundreds of bits I have…later in my garden!
Archive for the ‘garden’ Category
Andy’s bought a greenhouse!
Tuesday, April 7th, 2015Mantis Tiller modification
Monday, June 16th, 2014A few years ago, based on the recommendations from my Bro’ at Groundscaper, I purchased a Mantis Tiller, it’s brilliant, but I have just one complaint which I think is a design fault, the plastic throttle body, which is built into the carburetor body, keeps snapping off, as this is a weak spot.
The petrol 4-stroke Mantis Tiller uses a Honda GX25 engine, which is common to many petrol operated garden tools. The problem is that Honda do not supply the plastic throttle body as separate part, and you need to purchase a new GX25 carburetor body, price from Mantis UK – £95!
The support man from Mantis, did state, they could be purchased on eBay for £10!
This is the replacement part I purchased from Hong Kong – here, if you look closely at eBay, there are some available with a metal frame here
Originally, I was just going to transfer the plastic frame from the new part to the old part, but it did not fit, so a complete carburetor body swap was required, but before fixing back onto the engine, I made the following mod, to strengthen the plastic throttle attachment (Thanks Mike B. for the suggestion!)
some pictures
Strawberry Fields Forever
Sunday, June 15th, 2014Let me take you down
Cause I’m going to Strawberry Fields
Nothing is real
…
(c) John Lennon, 1966
Okay, not exactly Strawberry Fields, but my allotment!
But it still my favourite fruit, and Beatles Song written by John Lennon!
Frosty today…
Tuesday, November 19th, 2013One of the first very cold winter mornings, -5 degrees C at 9.00am, bees are all wrapped up…
Back to Nature
Tuesday, October 1st, 2013We visited Scampston Walled Garden, at the weekend, here are some photographs I took…
Small Tortoiseshell - Aglais urticae
White tailed bumblebee - Bombus lucorum
these were taken with a mobile phone, not a DSLR with a macro lens!
Rosa filipes ‘Kiftsgate’ in flower on the Magnolia Tree
Friday, July 12th, 2013
Too Hot for My Bee Suit!
Sunday, July 7th, 2013by joe, it’s hot today, I’m now hiding from the sun today, yesterday, I weeded the allotment for a few hours in the midday sun, and got sunburnt arms!
and today, at 1pm was in a full bee suit, inspecting the bees…must have sunstroke! I ate some honey comb straight out of the hive the other day, it was delicious!
not sure but these could be - Supersedure cells?
Supersedure cells – bees have decided to make themselves a new queen, either the queen is damaged, not laying, disappeared, or old.
Update – these could be drone cells, and not Supersedure cells because they are too small and not vertical.
Honey Bees – Day 22 – After swarm arrived in my beehive
Sunday, June 30th, 2013Honey Bees coming and going from beehive – day 22 after the swarm arrived at this hive. Weather today was warm and overcast, at least 20 degrees C, and humid.
Honey Bees - Day 22 - After swarm arrived in my beehive
Allotment on 20 June 2012, before the rain!
Sunday, June 24th, 2012
Allotment on 20 June 2012 before the Rain!
Andy builds a Geoff Hamilton Cloche!
Saturday, June 23rd, 2012A fellow allotment holder “David” gave me some 20mm plastic water pipe, and with bits of wood from the wood shed, a few nails and screws and a staple gun, I started to make a Cloche, to protect my Cauliflower from the pigeons and white cabbage butterflies.
I think it’s great when you can build something for free, rather than purchase something ready made. The design is based roughly on the Geoff Hamilton design, and many allotment holders up and down the country have made similar versions.
I think if you are an allotment holder, I think it’s some sort of right of passage, building your own Geoff Hamilton Cloche!
Here, Toby Buckland, makes a garden cloche, based on the design
here is a sequence of pictures of how I made mine….
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