EEEEK Reedos.... Take the coffee OUT! NOW! And just half hour in the oven then

I thought I had come up with a cunning plan to use those individual coffee filters (that you put on the top of your mug) as a slug barrier. Do you think it would just kill the plants off ?

The coffee plan is to use the liquid all over the area where you want to plant, but well before you plant. Then when all the slugs have headed for the hills you use the coffee grounds around the edges of the bed as a cordon sanitaire or use the liquid round the edges if you have no grounds.

Can I add to the drainage thingy? I use corks, and in tiny seed pots I use cheap capillary matting that didn't work - cut out a square or circle and pop it in the pot.

ooh that's clever too

I've even been known to cut up loo rolls and use them at the bottom of little pots too!

just been given 2 bin bags full of polystyrene plug plant trays to break for crock

We didn't have any kitchen roll to chit seed on so I used make up remover circles. Pot shaped.

Ooooooooo good idea Bags!

Well done that woman ! They really do appreciate the moisture retention My beans are on a pile of poo and that dries out like mad if you can't keep it moist. Emptied a compost bin tonight and decanted the lovely stuff round my beans and corn and filled a small old dustbin with that and manure and I'm planting a pumpkin or two in it

...to get a back on topic...

putting some holes in the bottom normally helps

Becs saves all her used corks and pistachio nut shells for drainage

And earings!!

Anybody know what has happened to Countess Clem/Plocket?

Why does cork earingss make you think of Plocket?

Not a clue hun..

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She is on holiday at the moment, Ady. I think she has been really busy over the summer hols and has less time for the Net in general. I hope she pops in more when the school term starts though! I will let her know that you were missing her!!

Mr D's avatar looks like me after too much rhubarb wine!!

and if I do remember rightly you were last to arise on sunday morning

Last to bed, last to rise ... seems fair enough to me!!!

ok you got me there..................I agree

Oooops, was it not a total success, J?