What a Plonka!

[binley100]

Yet another fine example of a plonka........I took delivery of Auto vent openers for greenhouse yesterday. Anyhow I couldn't wait to play with them as you do so I opens them puts them together then decided to have an arm wrestling match with them. Could I get the pistons to close?........not on your life, I thought they were broke or I had put them together wrong..........No, I didn't take into account the temperature in the room & they were doing their job & opening as they should.

..................and you think I'm mad

[enrich100]

Lesson learned today
Today I managed to tip a seed tray over because I thought I could save 30 seconds not moving it out of the way when moving shelving around, I spent nearly a hour picking out seedlings and replanting

Time saved = -59 minutes and 30 second

[taff]

Label,label, label!!!!
This is one lesson I will hopefully learn one day. And don't lose the labels that go with packs of seeds because 'I'll remember what the packets are'
And watch where you're stepping when you stepbac in the tiny greenhouse because you'll step on some freshly sewn irreplaceable seeds, then scrabble for ages thinking 'Is this a seed or a piece of compost?'
But I do love fighting with the auto-vent,that's just fab

[pipscariad]

I've got two 'don'ts' to add - but I'm sure I'll think of a lot more later!

1. Don't use the labels that came on your seed potato bags to mark out which spuds are where - because the slugs will eat off the paper part (i.e. the actual writing....), and you'll be left with a bed containing 14 different types of spud, but you have no idea which is which !

2. Don't get so carried away by your lovely, freshly dug beds, that you get all over enthusiastic and plant all sorts willy-nilly, completely messing up any chance of sensible crop rotation. (Me for the past two years, but I'm being much more disciplined this year....er, I'm trying to be!)