Absolutely. Should be ace with some nice planters and plants.
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Photo taken from inside. That is the reflection in window of a vent for the warm air heating* in the living room floor.
* quite the thing I’m the 60s, but an evolutionary dead end in this country. Still very popular in other countries apparently.
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Says a lot for how long plastics take to break down if the writing on the wrapper was still legible after 33 years
Absolutely. That was my main impression, that I could pick it out of the ground completely unscathed 30 years later.
Thay should have made all the raised beds out of Mars Bar wrappers.
They
Yea, I know. If I didn’t, somebody else would have.
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Internal advertising rocks
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I did mention to them that people would be unlikely to see it.
I think the gaffer told them to put it out and they DGAF.
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Advice needed 
I planted up a growing bag with what were supposed to be “Tumbler” toms, they don’t look much like Tumblers to me. Any expert (Mick Bald) opinions? 
Probably been labelled wrongly.
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I have to say we got loads more fruit off our non-tumblers last year than we did off the tumblers. If you can get them to grow OK (i.e. not collapse) then there might be a silver lining …
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Ours were fantastic last year, we had absolutely loads of toms off them.
We had a good look at the garage at the end of our garden yesterday and it looks like the roof construction will easily cope with a greenhouse etc on top of it, and there’s conveniently a drainage gully and downpipe about halfway down the length too. Looks like we’ll easily be able to get an 8’ by 12’ greenhouse on the front half with only one or two steps from the level of the garden. This will also prevent a certain stupid Foxhound from jumping on the roof and escaping out the bottom of the front garden.
Just that small matter of finding one now. New ones appear to have very long lead times due to demand, and s/h is a bit of a lottery. Will keep looking.
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The wife is the green fingered one, but I’ve been doing more of the manual stuff because of her condition. Right now, that primarily involves moving about 30 trays of seedlings in and out every morning and evening, plus watering as she’s back in hospital again right now. She reckons she has about 600 tomato plants in total, which is a fair few. We try to grow and preserve enough tomatoes each year that we never have to buy tinned at all.
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I actually prefer tinned tomatos, especially on toast
After we’ve preserved them, they’re basically like tinned tomatoes. They get roasted, the jarred, then put in the pressure cooker, so they reach similar temperatures to the canning process. These just have more flavour (and the odd bit of skin, because we cannot be arsed to remove every last trace).
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thats alot of 
sauce for 
I wish i had the inclination to grow stuff - we keep talking about it but neither of us shows any inclination to action.