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Ideal for potting, weeding, or gardening during wet weather. Full smooth latex sanitised dip provides waterproof barrier, a sandy latex palm coating provides excellent comfort and grip, and a double coating provides good water-resistant properties.
Each pair of gloves is held together with an Aluminium Carabiner clip.
Both types of gloves are also available for Ladies in Medium and Small sizes. Click on the image below or Here and download the chart, print it out and see what size will fit you best.
The first Treadstone Products Clip Gloves that I bought were a super value Triple Pack Gloves that retail at £12.95 that contains a good mix of general-purpose lightweight gardening gloves.
Each pair comes with hanging loops and a carabiner clip.
The pack contains one of each of the following:-
1 pair of polyester gloves with foam latex coating,
1 pair of polyester gloves with smooth nitrile coating,
1 pair of extra fine polyester glove with honeycomb textured latex coating for extra grip.
I never noticed the information about the sizing made easy and bought Medium which for me are a really tight snug fit, so I made sure my future order of gloves were large.
My Daughters use the mediums if they come down the the allotment to play, however there are female versions with more feminine colours (if your still allowed to say such things these days!)
Click Here to see the complete Range and sizes of Clip Gloves available from D.T.Brown.
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Another productive morning on "Avalon" with my son-in-law Andy getting the paving slabs in front of the shed level and creating the patio area where we can both sit and have a coffee mid morning when he comes down to the allotment to help me.
I kept Andy supplied with wood chips from the corner of the plot and carried on digging and weeding the paths and third Rhubarb bed then moved the rhubarb from the first bed where it had been lodging into its own new bed filled with farmyard manure. So many weeds, Couch Grass, Bindweed, Mares Tail etc.
Finally I managed to clear an area larger than the bed and was ready for the frame of Rhubarb Bed 3 to be installed.
A recent introduction that is becoming increasingly popular amongst commercial growers. Giving a high yield, it produces consistently round onions with an attractive golden yellow colour. With a perfect slightly sharp taste and crispness this variety will keep you going right through the winter as stores well.
Heat treating our onion sets is rather like turbo-charging them! This totally natural process takes several months, but the process means they establish and grow very rapidly, giving higher yields - and with virtually no risk of prematurely running to seed or 'bolting'.
All of D.T.Browns bulbs are certified as disease and virus free.
Delivered in 250g packs, each pack containing approx. 80 sets.
Price: £3.95 at time of this blog posting...
Variety to D.T.Brown
An exceptionally sweet taste that makes this red onion perfect for salads, sliced on top of burgers, or any cooked dishes that require a light, sweet onion. Crisp white flesh with crimson circles internally.
No kitchen garden is complete without onions - and planting
our sets this spring means you will have a supply early this summer just as
stored bulbs are scarce.
All of our bulbs are certified as disease and virus free.
250g pack contains around 80 sets for planting.
Brits are being warned to brace themselves for snow and hail as an Arctic blast sees temperatures drop as low as -6C - the coldest night of the winter for parts of the country.
The UK is set for another day of icy temperatures on Thursday before the mercury dips further on Friday with people being told to take care and also look out for vulnerable people who may need help.
A few showers for coastal parts east England and northeast Scotland, locally wintry during the morning. Isolated showers at first in Cornwall. Otherwise cold but dry and sunny for most. Cloudier in the north with a little rain possible later.
Dry and clear for most with light winds. Widespread frost for much of England, Wales and southern Scotland. Cloudier in the north and northwest with a little drizzle.
Mostly dry with good sunny spells in the east and south. Cloudier in the north and northwest with a little drizzle, cloud gradually spreading southwards.
Increasing cloud for the weekend but remaining dry for most in the south with some patchy fog and frosts. Windier but milder with more light rain in the north.
I’ve had red and white grapevines on my wall since 2013, they were bought from the £1 shop and did really well and produced grapes year on year there was just one problem, they had pips or seeds.
The wife and kids complained that although nice they were not as good as the nice ones from the supermarket don’t have seeds in, and their question was, "Why can’t you grow some without seeds?" My immediate answer was well if they don't have seeds how is one supposed to grow them?
Although a rare mutant seedless plant could be natural, the seedless form is not naturally occurring. The process of growing seedless grapes uses a form of asexual reproduction. The only way for a mutant seedless grape plant to reproduce is through the unnatural (for the grape plant) and manual asexual reproduction process.
Thus seedless grapes are grown from cuttings. The cuttings refer to amputated parts of a vine that is infected with the genetic defect that causes it to grow seedless grapes. This cutting is then dipped into a rooting hormone and planted in soil.
So after a little Winter internet surfing of the normal suspects, I have found that Suttons sell three varieties of seedless grapevines, and the two I’m going for are:-
KC5383Grapevine Plant - Flame Red (Seedless) which is supplied as a grafted plant in a 2 litre pot and Cost £18.99
When growing grape vines choose a sunny position in any well drained soil. A south facing position against a wall is ideal, and I'm blessed in having such a wall.
"Grape vines require sturdy support for their twining stems. Before planting, prepare a framework of wires stretched horizontally between two sturdy 1.8m (6’) posts or attached to a warm wall". I have wires already where I had the seeded grapes, but I'm going to wire up another section of wall as I now know, having had them just how much grapevines can grow.
Prior to planting, incorporate plenty of well-rotted manure or garden compost into the soil. Plant grape vines against the wire supports, allowing a distance of 2m (6’) between plants. After planting, reduce the newly planted grape vine back to height of the lowest support wire, and cut back any side shoots to one bud, before tying the main stem in to the supporting wires.
The other variety is KA1985 Grapevine (Vitis) Lakemore White (Seedless) which is supplied as a 3 litre potted plant for £19.99
These grapes grow to a good size, are white, seedless and taste sweet and rich. Like many Grapes, it also grows show-stopping lobed foliage that ‘colours up’ well in the autumn season. Furthermore, it is the ideal for growing on sunny, south-facing wall
Lakemore grapevines produce prolific crops that show impressive and are resistance to Powdery and Downy Mildew too.
Height of cordon trained vine: 1.8m (6’). Spread of cordon trained vine: 1.5m (5’). Untrained plants may reach up to 8m (26’)
Emma & Andy arrived early this morning. Andy & I arrived at the allotment gates around 9:15. The sun tried to come out whilst we were down there during the morning and just about managed it as we left at 1pm to head home for Sunday lunch.
Below are photos and an explanation of what we managed to get done.
