BearTricks
Established Member
Hi,
I have a few packets of vegetable seeds that need planting in the next few weeks. I hate gardening, but I cook a meal from scratch every day so I thought I'd cut down on some spending by growing some of my own ingredients. I've somehow managed to not kill my onions over winter, so I'm ready to expand in to radishes, beans etc.
I was looking at getting a cheap, portable greenhouse, that can come with us when we move, to put on the patio where it will get a lot of sun. Most seem to be hovering around the £30-60 mark and there doesn't seem to be a huge jump in quality until you get in to the £100s.
Are these worth getting and if so are there any brands that outperform the others when they're so cheap? My girlfriend is trying to convince me to build my own and use up some of the scrap wood that I have lying round but I don't have anything treated and I'm not convinced of my ability to make it watertight. It sounds like a nice weekend project, but not for someone who's trying to swear off unfinished weekend projects.
Secondly, I'm in the market for a mower before we get the first beer-garden weekend of the year and mower prices increase by an order of magnitude. Again, the garden isn't huge, and I don't plan on having a particularly impressive garden when we move so something that does the job without emptying my wallet would be best. Petrol is out of the question, due to price, so does anyone have any recommendations for fly-mo types? There's a few on offer for sub-£100 at the moment so I'd like to snap one up.
I have a few packets of vegetable seeds that need planting in the next few weeks. I hate gardening, but I cook a meal from scratch every day so I thought I'd cut down on some spending by growing some of my own ingredients. I've somehow managed to not kill my onions over winter, so I'm ready to expand in to radishes, beans etc.
I was looking at getting a cheap, portable greenhouse, that can come with us when we move, to put on the patio where it will get a lot of sun. Most seem to be hovering around the £30-60 mark and there doesn't seem to be a huge jump in quality until you get in to the £100s.
Are these worth getting and if so are there any brands that outperform the others when they're so cheap? My girlfriend is trying to convince me to build my own and use up some of the scrap wood that I have lying round but I don't have anything treated and I'm not convinced of my ability to make it watertight. It sounds like a nice weekend project, but not for someone who's trying to swear off unfinished weekend projects.
Secondly, I'm in the market for a mower before we get the first beer-garden weekend of the year and mower prices increase by an order of magnitude. Again, the garden isn't huge, and I don't plan on having a particularly impressive garden when we move so something that does the job without emptying my wallet would be best. Petrol is out of the question, due to price, so does anyone have any recommendations for fly-mo types? There's a few on offer for sub-£100 at the moment so I'd like to snap one up.