12 month Grow your own planting plans

boston_uk

Thanks so much mum of 4 - brilliant work! now for the rescued timber, raised beds and chickens as well !! Damn we are gonna be busy ... woot!

mambury

Thanks Mumof4! How long must it have taken you to sort that out! Truly inspired!

Off to badger DH to help sort out garden!!

I have to wait for the soakaway to be sorted, half my garden is going to be destroyed by diggers and god knows what over xmas. I think I will get him to ahem, dig some bits up for me!

Now all I need are chicks, somewhere for them to live...a field for some sheep....a little bit carried away there me thinks!

Anyway, thanks again!:T

gongoozler

Fantastic thread, just wondered.....with growing plans and/or chickens, is it best to reserve the winter for going on holiday/relative visits, or is it possible between March and October ?? !!

Yategirl

with chickens.. as long as you have someone who can pop in (if you go away for longer than 2 nights) and feed/water them then you can go away anytime of year..

problem with veg.. is that summer/autumn is when most veg is ready for picking - so either the "chicken checker" has veg and eggs as "payment" or if you go away for longer than a week.. then some stuff 'may' get wasted.. I find for a week... i don't tend to loose anything...

jay_dee

Thanks mum of 4 - just received the plans! :j

mum_of_4

gongoozler wrote: »

Fantastic thread, just wondered.....with growing plans and/or chickens, is it best to reserve the winter for going on holiday/relative visits, or is it possible between March and October ?? !!

Last year we had our main holiday in August which was a pain because we lost some stuff, even though people were watering etc while we were away.

This year we are going during the last two weeks of July so I hope things will be a bit better.

I've just collected 16 blueberry bushes and four of them crop in July so I might have to accept that i might never see those ones. Still should end up with a decent harvest.

To add - My chickens are well looked after by a neighbour, they get loads of treats and sometimes he even sites in the garden to keep them company. we even come home to find he's cleaned all the patio and steps. If we are only going away for the odd night or two they are fine as they have large feeder/drinkers and a large run.

stas4949

Hello

Just received the plans :j

Got all excited but then couldn't open them

I havn't got excel and it said something about missing installation or am I just being dumb!!!:o

Thanks anyways x

mum_of_4

Oh I think you can download the office suite and view it that way, there is a link on one of the pages. I'll have a look and see if i can find it

mum_of_4

http://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/showthread.html?t=1225019&page=11

look at entry 213

hope that helps

Benmollymoo

Hi Mum of 4 - I have Pm'd you - thank you for being so generous with your plans - it is getting me all excited about our new (1/2) allotment