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  • My house smells like an allotment - HELP

    Can someone help me. Every windsill in the house has something growing on it and the house is starting to smell earthy....... like an allotment. My wife is starting to complain.

  • #2
    Get some bricks.

    Make a cold frame.

    Harden the seedlings off.

    Get them outside in the coldframe.

    Sorted.

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    • #3
      Exellent idea. May need the cold frame to be big enough to accomodate a mattress for me!

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      • #4
        Originally posted by Garvey View Post
        Exellent idea. May need the cold frame to be big enough to accomodate a mattress for me!
        Well get a greenhouse then it will be big enough for a single bed..jacob
        What lies behind us,And what lies before us,Are tiny matters compared to what lies Within us ...
        Ralph Waide Emmerson

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        • #5
          Decisions, decisions...........plants or wife?
          My Majesty made for him a garden anew in order
          to present to him vegetables and all beautiful flowers.- Offerings of Thutmose III to Amon-Ra (1500 BCE)

          Diversify & prosper


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          • #6
            I have actually done that in the late summer last year. I started in the marital bed but moved to the greehouse later that evening. The reason was a bloody great badger who was trying to dig under my fence and get into my garden. I was so terrified he would get in and destroy my veggies I kipped in the greenhouse. I wouldn't recommend it!

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            • #7
              Whatever you do it wont be for long, spring is on the way and before you know it all those seedlings will be outside
              Updated my blog on 13 January

              http://www.growfruitandveg.co.uk/gra.../blogs/stella/

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              • #8
                Originally posted by Garvey View Post
                I have actually done that in the late summer last year. I started in the marital bed but moved to the greehouse later that evening. The reason was a bloody great badger who was trying to dig under my fence and get into my garden. I was so terrified he would get in and destroy my veggies I kipped in the greenhouse. I wouldn't recommend it!
                We know the story behind why you were in there - but why wouldn't you recommend it?



                As for the earthy smell - I've got it confined to one room at the moment and to be totally honest - I love it. Every time I go in there the smell makes me smile.

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                • #9
                  Originally posted by Garvey View Post
                  ...and the house is starting to smell earthy.......
                  wonderful smell - sell the wife!
                  aka
                  Suzie

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                  • #10
                    Tell her to quit complaining, bloody women ( would point out that i am female before i start trouble) I have the same problem, windowsills all covered even the dining room table has my seed potatoes on it, him indoors starts moaning so i just throw him that look. Already warned him i am digging the lawn up for my veg, he's moaning about that now. I will dig the lawn up tho need somewhere for me peas to go. Do i tell him about the extra raised beds i am planning ? nope .

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                    • #11
                      Chitting spuds on the dining room table - suicide! I spent this evening digging the lawn out for another raised bed. I finished after dark so hopefully I've got a few hours to get me story sorted out for the other arf"

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                      • #12
                        Originally posted by Garvey View Post
                        Chitting spuds on the dining room table - suicide! I spent this evening digging the lawn out for another raised bed. I finished after dark so hopefully I've got a few hours to get me story sorted out for the other arf"
                        Nice one , i'm hopefully doing mine this weekend come rain or shine. Back to the seeds it's not like they are there for long, gradually they make their way outside

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                        • #13
                          I think allotments and growing plants smell lovely.

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                          • #14
                            Dead right there, Rustylady.

                            There's a smell near my plot at the minute - it might be some manure rotting down but I dunno - which is really nice.
                            I used a wee bit of the well rotted manure that's left on my plot today... now that smells beautiful. A really warm, sweet smell. The texture was pretty special too.

                            I think I could get into this gardening lark.
                            Last edited by organic; 17-03-2010, 09:45 PM. Reason: typo

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                            • #15
                              Buy your wife some flowers, smile sweetly and thank her for her patience.
                              Imagination is everything, it is a preview of what is to become.

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