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>> No. 2836 Anonymous
29th August 2020
Saturday 3:28 pm
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I've got a temperature-controlled grow-light setup in the shed as I want to be able to start off seedlings in a controlled setting but can't fit it in the house. Not growing weed, but I'm worried people will think I am (there's no way to safely hide the light/heat without creating a fire hazard or looking like I'm trying to hide something) and I don't fancy having to replace all my doors if the police get sus. Should I call up 101 and ask them politely to fuck off in advance?
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>> No. 2869 Anonymous
31st August 2020
Monday 9:16 am
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>>2868
Thanks, that's all I really needed to know. The neighbours actively don't give a fuck.
>> No. 2870 Anonymous
31st August 2020
Monday 10:30 am
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>>2869

Several lads on the uk420 forums who actually were growing cannabis have written about their experience of getting busted. The common description is "the police knocked on the door, they were polite but firm, they took my plants and growlights but didn't trash the place, I got a summons to the Magistrates court and ended up with a £250 fine". It's clearly not a particularly high priority for anyone.
>> No. 2871 Anonymous
31st August 2020
Monday 10:58 am
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>>2867
No you're right, obviously the way the police work is that after they have inspected a grow site to see a person is growing tomatoes, if the next day their helicopter picks up a heat signature from the same address they'll immediately assume it's cannabis and send a squad to raid it. FFS.
>> No. 2872 Anonymous
31st August 2020
Monday 12:42 pm
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>>2870
My brother got busted many many years ago - similar experience. I was more gutted about the fact he had borrowed all my (high quality) lighting gear and they took it.
>> No. 2873 Anonymous
2nd September 2020
Wednesday 4:31 am
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>>2870

utopians are big fans of a stupified populace of state dependent serfs

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>> No. 2834 Anonymous
22nd July 2020
Wednesday 8:00 pm
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Any idea what kind of bug laid these eggs?
Google/Facebook can't decide if they are Butterflies or Birchflies.

Any resident entomologists care to chip in?

Cheers.
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>> No. 2835 Anonymous
23rd July 2020
Thursday 8:11 pm
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>>2834
My resident ecological expert says these are definitely moth or butterfly eggs, but its not possible to tell what type until they hatch.

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>> No. 2807 Anonymous
30th March 2020
Monday 9:07 pm
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Have any other city slickers noticed that the sky is now both clearer and more vivid from the lack of smog? Ironically I've been spending more time outside during the quarantine than I did before it, simply because the sunsets have been looking so beautiful.

I want to ban all cars and marry Greta (when she turns of age) now.
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>> No. 2816 Anonymous
30th March 2020
Monday 11:14 pm
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>>2813
Doesn't matter if you "see" or not, edgelad. It's an image of child abuse under UK law and given the implied rape, a severely punishable one.
>> No. 2817 Anonymous
30th March 2020
Monday 11:35 pm
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>>2816

Amusingly if she was married it wouldn't be (although it'd still be illegal to distribute or publish). The law really sometimes is an ass.
>> No. 2819 Anonymous
30th March 2020
Monday 11:47 pm
2819 Not that lad
For the avoidance of doubt, the Canadian authorities examined it and determined it did not amount to CP. Either way, it's still casual bint-hatery to imply that the appropriate thing to do to a woman who disagrees with you is to rape her, and that implication alone is enough to get our benevolent dictator into serious trouble.
>> No. 2822 Anonymous
31st March 2020
Tuesday 8:13 am
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>>2819
>the Canadian authorities examined it and determined it did not amount to CP

An establishment cover up of CP? Who'd have thunked it?
>> No. 2823 Anonymous
31st March 2020
Tuesday 8:59 am
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>>2819
The Canadian authorities are not our authorities.

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>> No. 2801 Anonymous
19th March 2020
Thursday 4:07 pm
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Dear Gardeners' Question Time,

I'm growing Thyme and now that the seedlings have appeared, is it time to transplant then individually into their own pots?

Yours,

A Rookie
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>> No. 2802 Anonymous
19th March 2020
Thursday 4:22 pm
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They're far too small to handle. Best to pull some out (try repotting them if you really want) for space so the roots of the remaining ones don't get tangled then wait until they're a lot sturdier before repotting the them.
>> No. 2803 Anonymous
19th March 2020
Thursday 8:01 pm
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>>2802
Thanks for the response.

>Best to pull some out
So pull them out with my fingers or dig them out?

> (try repotting them if you really want)
So you mean pull them out and rearrange in the same pot to space them out a bit?

I don't know what I'm doing
>> No. 2805 Anonymous
19th March 2020
Thursday 8:28 pm
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>>2803

If you're going to just thin them out then yes use your fingers. If you're going to try to repot them then use something long and thin and scoopy to try and pull out a plug of soil without disturbing the root (there's probably only one per seedling at this point) too much. Not in the same pot. If you've only got the one pot then just thin them out, don't rearrange them as you'll only end up disturbing the others while potentially killing the ones you do move. How many thyme plants do you need, anyway? Even one can grow to quite a substantial size.

The rim of that pot is a bit too high so you've ended up with some really leggy seedlings growing as tall as they can to catch the sun over the edge. Something to consider for next time*.

*If this happens with anything solanaceae (tomatoes, chillies, peppers, some others) it can be a good thing as they'll put out more roots if you pile soil around their exposed stalks.
>> No. 2806 Anonymous
20th March 2020
Friday 4:55 pm
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Is there some reason why you couldn't leave the seeds together and grow a type of mega-thyme? Gently twist the stalks around one another to create a thick, entwined trunk; then further up encourage each seperate plant out to its own section?

I'm thinking competition of resources might trouble the roots. Could you affect an even distribution of minerals across a large space to mitigate this risk? Or perhaps create borders between seeds, so route growth can be directed away from the others.

Completely unrelated - a while ago i noticed nettles have a tendancy to grow new shoots at about a 90 degree angle from one another. How hard do you suppose it would be to graft sections of two nettles, as pictured? You could have an entire wall latticed with nettles, full of aphids and ant colonies.

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>> No. 2797 Anonymous
2nd March 2020
Monday 1:13 pm
2797 Haven't built a heap yet
I ordered some 15L bags of fancy compost (SylvaGrow® Organic Growing Medium) and that turned out to be nowhere near as much as I need, so I ordered some less fancy (Wickes Multi-Purpose) 50L bags. The 50L bags are maybe 1/3 larger than the 15L bags. I'm no mathematician but what the fuck is going on here?
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>> No. 2798 Anonymous
2nd March 2020
Monday 5:46 pm
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>>2797

I suspect the Wickes stuff has been compressed in some way that they can label the quantity in the bag as 50l.
>> No. 2799 Anonymous
2nd March 2020
Monday 6:16 pm
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>>2798
Is it going to swell up when it gets wet? There are lots of tiny holes in the bag so I'd assume not.
>> No. 2800 Anonymous
2nd March 2020
Monday 7:06 pm
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Shop brands are packed in super tight, the more you can fit on a single pallet the lower your shipping/storage/shopfloor costs are going to be.

Water is a real problem with this type of compost, because if it gets wet while it's compacted it'll stay compacted. You really need to give it a good fluffing up while it's still dry before you can use it. (A lot of people make this mistake with growbags, you need to break up all the compost inside before you even cut them open)

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>> No. 2778 Anonymous
2nd December 2019
Monday 12:22 pm
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Does anybody know who this sexy creature is? At first i thought it novel to watch the progress of a spider egg sac on my bathroom window, but now there are two of them and i don't particularly like the idea of being overrun by 500 tiny spiders. I was bitten 3 times by a false widow over the summer.
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>> No. 2787 Anonymous
7th January 2020
Tuesday 2:25 pm
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I'll get a belljar soon to help protect any future displays from dust and prospective occupants.
>> No. 2788 Anonymous
7th January 2020
Tuesday 2:38 pm
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Are you a serial killer? Because your windowsill makes you look like a serial killer.
>> No. 2789 Anonymous
7th January 2020
Tuesday 2:59 pm
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How does your moss stay so fresh? I would assume it would die. Also have you thought about investing in a plant pot?
>> No. 2790 Anonymous
7th January 2020
Tuesday 3:17 pm
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I thought the same, so i put it in my bathroom which is often steamy and fairly moist with condensation from the window - It's been going since last autumn i think. It's a shame to have removed it but i don't really want that many grubs in my house.

Pictured gave me the idea - though i'm now wondering if it would become likewise infested.

>>2788
They were dead when i found them.
>> No. 2791 Anonymous
7th January 2020
Tuesday 5:21 pm
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>>2790

I suspect moss mats are probably deeply impractical in reality, highly slimy and your feet end up dirtier than when you started. I think it is one of those ideas that people buy because of the romance of it but turns out to be in reality awful.

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>> No. 2773 Anonymous
9th September 2019
Monday 3:50 pm
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Can i grow brambles from seed laden fox poo? Grind up some rabit droppings from the same environment as fertaliser and growth medium, and mix it with the assumed nutrient rich fecal matter? I imagine the feeds would be fermented, activated or some shit after going through the foxes
system.
How would i actually do this? How do you go about testing chemical conditions within the soils? How do i know what brambles need?
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>> No. 2774 Anonymous
9th September 2019
Monday 4:18 pm
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How is it that you have more access to fox and rabbit droppings than soil?
>> No. 2775 Anonymous
9th September 2019
Monday 5:11 pm
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>>2774
My limited understanding is that soil is vastly decomposed matter like leaves, grasses and whatever happens to fall. So it makes sense that you could grow from processed grasses like rabbit droppings, plus the blackberry nutrient and seed that have passed through the fox. It'd be nice to test whether that snapshot of the ecosystem sustains itself.

It's more an introduction to botany and ecology than actually growing, but having blackberries next year would be a welcome result.
>> No. 2776 Anonymous
9th September 2019
Monday 5:23 pm
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I'm still not sure I understand what you actually have in mind.
Rabbit droppings would make a perfectly fine manure if you had some way of gathering them in vast quantities, you're definitely better off just buying some compost or finding the manure of larger herbivores. Not a great idea to trespass on farmland but if there's a stables anywhere near you, the horses will regularly shit on the road and you can gather it up with a bag for free.

Most brambles are very hardy, you'll have noticed they tend to grow all over the place wild, but in their case
>Seed often does not germinate until the second year after shedding. Seeds have a hard seed coat and a chilling requirement to overcome. Plants take three years to flower from seed.
you're not going to get blackberries by next year. Unless you wait until spring and buy a young one. You could buy two and give one rabbit manure to see if it makes any difference to the growth if you're that keen on experimenting.

Don't play about with fox shit though, even if you were to sterilise it, it would smell fucking awful all the time.
>> No. 2777 Anonymous
9th September 2019
Monday 7:26 pm
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Just cut a few stalks off a living bramble and stick them in water and they'll hopefully take root.

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>> No. 2770 Anonymous
3rd September 2019
Tuesday 6:59 pm
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Can someone please point me towards the British version of this guy?

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>> No. 2769 Anonymous
9th May 2019
Thursday 11:17 pm
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>> No. 2757 Anonymous
4th March 2018
Sunday 8:52 pm
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UK outdoor bud spots 2018 - who is growing?
I have one spot cleared and nearly camouflaged (by cut bushes & young trees) and another partially cleared and in the process of being camouflaged. Hoping to harvest 10 autos and 10 regs - Sweet Cheese Auto and marple Maroc. They are adjacent to a train line. The only likelihood for discovery lies in the smell. Having checked the prevailing wind to assess the likelihood of this I can state that it is likeliest in October, unless eddies on the hillside cause the smell to rise up against the direction of the wind up the hillside to a nearby footpath.

I will be using 10/12L buckets (£1 each from the Poundshop) with 10L compost in each and holes in the bottom, with the lower half buried in holes in the ground to retard dehydration such that they require less frequent watering. FBB (fish, blood and bone) fertiliser and rabbit-proof cages and slug-poison pellets will be used - standard practice.

I am now a fan of folding saws for spot-clearance.

Good luck! Photos can't be provided as I lack a camera.
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>> No. 2758 Anonymous
4th March 2018
Sunday 11:02 pm
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>>2757
Growing, but not outdoors. Good move with burying them in buckets. How do you disguise the area around it? I like the sound of it being near a railway, but aren't you concerned about the possibility of passers-by as it were?

Presumably you'll be all harvested by October? What is the average vegetation/flowering time in the UK? (realise that is a piece of string question depending on the strain but ykwim)
>> No. 2759 Anonymous
5th March 2018
Monday 7:53 pm
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>>2758 One has to make the clearings away from footpaths and paying attention to the prevailing wind so the smell wouldn't carry;
to disguise the spot you have to cut spiky bushes, hawthorne and brambles, and weave living ones through to create an opaque mesh of vegetation that appears like a natural barrier. Ideally do this in winter, then as the living parts of the mesh screen grow, it looks like a natural barrier covered in leaves. Unless the potential discoverer knew the area well they would not give it a second glance.

An important part of making camo screens is not to make dense, thin walls but rather thicker, less dense "walls" maybe a metre or two thick, or it looks wrong from the outside.
For non-autoflowers, I'd hope to plant out 5/6 inch seedlings on the 1st of May and harvest by the 1st of october.
>> No. 2767 Anonymous
10th April 2018
Tuesday 5:51 pm
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OP Here. cannabis seedlings substituted for edibles now; two spots complete. I am growing a lot of morning glory, they are currently 1 inch high seedlings. I am growing 5/6 runner bean plants, 5 potatoes, 5/6 onions seeded, some herbs, and a lot of "climbing beans" from wilkinsons.
I am keeping myself entertained while unemployed. I am now tempted to get a camera and post a picture of my spots. There are three in total. I wonder how much food I can grow - maybe two months worth of potato carrot and climbing bean. I could eat for free for two months!
>> No. 2768 Anonymous
10th April 2018
Tuesday 7:27 pm
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>>2767
You're growing potatoes outdoors? What a weirdo.
All the cool kids are growing their root vegetables under growlights now.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DYa0Syea4P0

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>> No. 2760 Anonymous
15th March 2018
Thursday 11:24 am
2760 Howard Marks extradited again
https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2018/mar/12/uk-cannabis-seed-seller-us-extradition-attempt-gypsy-nirvana
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>> No. 2761 Anonymous
15th March 2018
Thursday 11:55 am
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>>2760
I cannot for the life of me see how this case is working - seeds are legal in every country.
>> No. 2762 Anonymous
15th March 2018
Thursday 12:14 pm
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>>2761

From the article:

>cannabis seeds are considered a schedule 1 narcotic in the US
>> No. 2763 Anonymous
15th March 2018
Thursday 3:52 pm
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>>2760
Howard Marks has been dead for two years.
>> No. 2764 Anonymous
16th March 2018
Friday 1:38 am
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taken care of
https://www.belfasttelegraph.co.uk/news/uk/cannabis-seed-dealer-successfully-fights-us-extradition-bid-36709676.html
>> No. 2765 Anonymous
16th March 2018
Friday 1:39 am
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>>2763
thats very sad

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>> No. 2748 Anonymous
5th November 2017
Sunday 6:23 pm
2748 Mystery Shrubs
Can anyone identify these shrubs? They were found being used for decoration in southern Germany.
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>> No. 2749 Anonymous
5th November 2017
Sunday 9:00 pm
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Yep, the top one is your common or garden Dunkelbeeriger Strauch, and the bottom one is the somewhat less common Rötlicher Strauch. No need to thank me.
>> No. 2751 Anonymous
6th November 2017
Monday 7:58 pm
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>>2749
Well impressed lad.
>> No. 2753 Anonymous
6th November 2017
Monday 8:29 pm
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Or possibly varieties of Arschschürhaken Strauch.
>> No. 2754 Anonymous
8th November 2017
Wednesday 3:02 am
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I like you, britfa.gs :)

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>> No. 2715 Anonymous
23rd July 2017
Sunday 9:46 pm
2715 Kill everything in my garden
I've always lived in one of fire-prone tower blocks. I never really ventured outside the concrete jungle, and as such, touching anything green gives me really bad rashes and other weird outbreaks. I don't have to do much for it though, just an anti-histamine and rest gets everything okay again.

I'm now living in a house with a garden. The garden is overgrown and there are bushes and shrubs and whathaveyou everywhere. I want to kill everything so that it looks like the picture.

My plan is to buy loads of weed/pest killers and spray it everywhere. I hope it kills everything.

Any of you lads got any better ways of handling this to share?
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>> No. 2734 Anonymous
26th July 2017
Wednesday 8:39 am
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>>2733
I'm set on my path, friend.
>> No. 2735 Anonymous
27th July 2017
Thursday 8:32 am
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Next up, either:
I hate this stinking desolate wasteland. How do I grow things in it?
Fucking weeds growing on my desolate stinking wasteland. Wat do?
Fuck me, gravel and paving is expensive. Any cheaper options?
Fuck me, spent a fortune on gravel. Weeds are growing through it.
Regrets, lad. You'll have a few.
>> No. 2736 Anonymous
1st August 2017
Tuesday 9:31 am
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When in doubt, turn to the Holy Book. Salt the earth, m62. You can thank me later.
>> No. 2746 Anonymous
13th October 2017
Friday 2:15 pm
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>Would it work if I cut down everything and covered the whole garden with a patchwork of tarps held down my massive rocks?

I did this and it worked OK. You might have to dig stumps if there are trees growing in it.

I also had to till (I just used a pitchfork), fertilize, and sow grass seed on parts of the garden I wasn't using to prevent the weeds from coming back.
>> No. 2747 Anonymous
13th October 2017
Friday 8:40 pm
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>>2735
You need to discover horticultural fabric lad. Stops all the weeds.

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>> No. 2697 Anonymous
8th June 2017
Thursday 11:22 am
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I have an old PC that's doing nothing but taking up space.

I want to grow plants in it.

I'm thinking if I strip off the casing so it's just the internal skeleton, boards, wires and so on I can stick it in my garden and put a creeper in it or something.
Can anyone suggest a plant that would work well for this?
Is there anything in the machine that's going to seep out in the rain and poison the garden?
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>> No. 2710 Anonymous
11th June 2017
Sunday 3:41 pm
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Fuck me manual labour sucks. You'd have think they'd have invented something for that by now.

>>2709
I ended up not doing this because there were so many loose screws, sticks of RAM and cables from the two computers that I figured they'd do in place of stones. Here's a climbing plant growing out of a busted speaker.
>> No. 2711 Anonymous
11th June 2017
Sunday 3:43 pm
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I have sown a load of wildflowers in the bare earth/compost so it won't stay bare, I'll just need to weed it once I figure out which growths are the flowers and which aren't.

The piece of metal pipe marking off the bed is some random crap I found behind the greenhouse. Possibly an old trampoline, I have no real idea.
>> No. 2712 Anonymous
11th June 2017
Sunday 3:45 pm
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And here's the lavender plus a pot of those white flowers whatever they are. This bed is so big because I also have a maple tree I wanted to plant but when I started digging down I hit a pipe.
>> No. 2713 Anonymous
12th June 2017
Monday 8:34 pm
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>>2712
A Maple Tree? That's quite a step up.

You might like to consider some seeds too, see what grows in among it all.
>> No. 2714 Anonymous
12th June 2017
Monday 9:27 pm
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>>2713
I don't really want the Maple tree but it was here, in a pot, with all the random pieces of metal. Seems a shame to chuck it but I don't know what else to do with it.
Like I said, I spread some assorted wildflower seeds in the compost (cowslip, poppies, something, something, foxgloves).

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