How are they coming along mate??. Looks a great idea. You may be able to solve all our climate change issues with your mini woodland scenes
Morning mate, will give you a ring later. Things are looking ok at the moment all I can see is a pile of books
Nice idea, you could start a new business mate
Cheers
Hi Wouter, thanks mate, that thought had crossed my mind.
Excellent John - really must try this sometime
Thanks Simon, you ought to.
Morning Mr R,
looks like your having fun with nature
All very interesting stuff
Hi Si, I am, all good fun.
Well at least we can get in the garden and the weather has been great these last few days. Don't know about most of you but haven't had the full on mo jo for some time. I do a bit, than go into the garden where there is plenty to do. I pressed the first batch as Paul suggested and they are now sitting in the cave, still in between kitchen roll with a couple of steel bars holding them flat.
Mean while I did another batch.
Not very much in the base of the super market meat trays, very handy for this sought of thing. Well spaced out, remembering what Jim has said about seeing some in a real mess.
To keep them submerged I put a second tray on top
Then filled with enough water to hold it down.
This was covered up and left for 3 days, seemed long enough to me with the section s being so thin.
Next came the drying, now getting them out of the mixture and them keeping them flat was the important thing, using a pair of tweezers and lifting from the stalk and then lowering into some clean water to remove the excess mix. Then again using the same method of handling they were laid out on the paper, this kept the " branch " from folding up and becoming really hard to untangle.
From then on a gentle pressing of paper towel removed the majority of the water, after this a full covering and.
a gentle application of warm air, at this point it was very easy to blow the whole lot away, so a little at the time was called for.
Once the warm air treatment had finished they were placed on more dry paper and covered up with a top layer. Full permission was granted to keep them in the front room and here they are to this day.
Those sharp eyed will notice the subject of the books. I was given these by a friend when her husband died, brilliant photos and text from news papers at the time.
At the same time I plated some seeds, these are now up and growing well , when fully grown they can cover 1mtr so will go into the garden , as long as they are sheltered they should be ok winter wise.
Just up.
Not 100 % germination only had 8 seed so 50 % success
Today we have .
Sitting in the kitchen, along with the 3 indoor ones.
Thanks for looking in.
Comment and abuse from certain members more than welcome.
John.
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You're knowledgeable about both.
should be here on Friday.
