Planting in Modules

[veggiechicken]

Yes Colin, Even the greatest of oaks need a nut to start with!

[snohare]

Walnut go into that, shall we ? I must say I am bushed by all this mental work, I rose to the challenge, but a dog wood complain at the amount of abuse I am likely to get...Ash for the treemendous quality of conversation, gorse, I think you can scrub that !

[veggiechicken]

What a-corny joke! Same old chestnuts. I'm pine-ing for something new from one of my elders. May-be a joke to be told for the furze time or are you hedging about before branching off on a new root? Wood be good if you did.

[snohare]

Haw haw, thorny though your comments are I think you are hedging your bets. Yew won't stay poplar if you aldernate between being serious and humorous. It's plane to see there's no raoul prize at stake here, so I suppose there's no point rowan about it; people will just get sycamore holly pointless discussion, it does nobody any service.
I'll cedar differences are not that great, we are not myrtle enemies that we must keep at bay, no boxing matches are likely to overwhelm either of us, they can palm either of us off with laurels if they want, I don't care.
I bough to your superior tenacity, I twigged that at first sight.

[veggiechicken]

Firs things firs. In my opineion, yew are to be appleauded for your pearsistence. You are barking up the wrong tree if you beleaf that I am in contest with you. It is just a veneer and you are the real conkerer.

[zazen999]

It's like watching students on White Lightening after having just discovered Monty Python.

[Snadger]

Ok folks,pay attention!

I like the idea of wooden seed trays or modules.
How about.............. you construct a seed tray with a 6mm drilled exterior plywood base, sides to be made of 70mm X 10 mm latts.

A single insert with as many modules as you desire can then be made from strips of 6mm ply X 70mm wide 'toothed' together and either glued or left so that modules can be stripped down. This would mean there was no need for a removeable bottom and would make the tray stronger and multifunctional (different sized inserts could be added).............Wallah!

[singleseeder]

Yay Snadger! Brilliant.

Can I do the same with cardboard then? Might be a single use jobby, but it would keep me quiet on a dark winter evening.

[veggiechicken]

It's like watching students on White Lightening after having just discovered Monty Python.

Any exchange with Snohare leaves me verbally exhausted!

[Snadger]

Errrrr..........oops!!!!!! Double post!

[Snadger]

Yay Snadger! Brilliant.

Can I do the same with cardboard then? Might be a single use jobby, but it would keep me quiet on a dark winter evening.

Can't see why not? Wouldn't try moving it around once its full of compost and watered though!
You could of course just make some cardboard inserts for a normal plastic tray..............origami modules anyone!

[DavidJP]

Or you could forget about having proper modules and use soil blocks instead, the roots will naturally be air pruned and will help keep the block together. You can even make your own soil blocker
Making a Soil Blocker
or buy one such as these Soil Block Makers - Johnny's Selected Seeds

[snohare]

Thanks for that, JP. Being Aberdonian, I rather fancy the idea of using fresh air - it being free - to do the work. However, given my natural clumsiness, I think soil blocks are going to have to await the construction of my greenhouse.
Well....would you adam and eve it...my job yesterday was to smash up a three legged dressing table...full of lovely deep, wooden drawers !
So now I need to get the countersink out (who needs drills ?) and find some 6mm ply.
It's boring, but I must ap-ply myself....(Please, veggiechicken, let the drawers thing slide !)

[veggiechicken]

I hope you're not becoming fixated on Drawers now. Maybe I should do a runner.....

[Snadger]

New knicker elastic will fix sliding drawers!