Gardening problems - new tools/gadget ideas

Hi Fidgetsmum. i think i will purchase one of these things

i could sit the wife on it when we go shopping and put the shopping inside :rotfl::rotfl:.
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Well, at least it'll be a change from having to be strapped to the roof -rack!

 

You get given straps ? Why ? :lollol:

 

Having only recently purchased a greenhouse I think that there must be a new and better potential way to shade plants in the summer months. I appreciate that there are items on the market which help but they all seem to create other problems, e.g. the whitewash approach - very efficient but you are for ever deciding when to wash it off and minimise the clear-up problems.
Also need an efficient way to insulate in the winter - bubble wrap is great but what a palaver to gwet it in place and/or remove it when required to...............

 

Barnaby, once you`ve put bubble up, you leave it up. It not only insulates in winter, it also shades in summer.:thumb::yez::yez:

Martin, the straps are the seat belts, for goodness sake.:gnthb::rotfl::rotfl::rotfl:

 

After trying to tackle our overgrown hedge I'd like an extendible lopper that works better, admittedly there may already be better ones on the market that i didn't look at due to price. The one we have, is like secateurs on a pole with a bit of string to open/close, it can't tackle thickish branches and the damn string gets caught on everything or the open/cut mechanish gets hooked on something as your trying to cut but its hard to see what your doing some 8/9ft up.

 

Solution for this has been achieved, its a STEP LADDER :lollol::lollol::lollol:

Sorry I couldn't resist :hehe:

 

Thanks for the comment re bubble wrap Dai - I shall proceed with that approach a.s.a.p.

 

I'd like to see 'them' invent a roller-blind type arrangement which would fit along the outside ridge of an aluminium greenhouse - then I could just pull a cord to roll down the shading to the level I wanted and roll it up again when not needed. PS - I want to be able to choose my own shading medium to attach to it - netting, bamboo slats etc.

 

A means by which you can cut the tops of hedges level.

 

I thought that was a string :hehe:

 

Touche :lollol:

But how do I get a string level, across a 7 ft high, hawthorn hedge of about 25 metres. I would need to sink poles into the ground ? :cnfs:

 

Yes - and ......? :lollol:

 

Twice you have got me now ... I hope your happy if you ever drive past my un-even hedge and think to yourself .. "wow thats un-even"

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I bet it's a darned sight more even than if I'd done it.