Olive Oyls 12-month Countdown

mumoftwins

Hello everyone!

Back from a fabulous weekend with my cousins, Aunts and Uncles who I haven't seen for ages - what abrilliant crowd they all are :A.

Had such a laugh, late nights, good food and plenty to drink (not in my case, I was a good girl ). Went into Ironbridge on Saturday and sat in the sunshine outside a pub/restaurant and generally felt like I was on holiday! Twins loved seeing their second cousins who are all of a similar age.

Hope you all had a good Mothers Day xx

OliveOyl_2

It's another sunny day today
But we gardeners (:D according to my mum, I qualify ) must still beware of frost
Unusually, all three of us went out yesterday. Took a while :rolleyes: ; slight dramas in the morning, but because I'm fairly laid back (when I'm there, and only about unimportant things, like what time we go ) we just re-scheduled it for the afternoon.
Normally I take them out separately - her dementia makes her angry with him when she's stressed and going out stresses her so she throws a tantrum and refuses to leave. I tried a new tack (he wanted to come too) I (and shh about this ) told her that it would p*ss him off more if she came too :rotfl:
When we got to the nursery he chose what he wanted and told us that it was time to go - we'd been there 10 minutes. I was quite firm with him and told him *we* hadn't finished and if he was tired he could sit in the patio furniture display.
Mum and I wandered around being what she considered naughty (not doing what he asked) and she was in her element talking about gardening giving tips and the like. When we returned at times to Dad he was either chatting to other customers or was joined by other old boys who had been placed there for safe keeping :rotfl: :rotfl:

We returned home with the boot full (mostly his stuff, but a couple of things that she had recommended for my garden ) and the pair of them were completely kn*ckered but happy

When I got home last night my raised bed was still standing too

beanielou

Actually sounds like an ok day

OliveOyl_2

It was a good day. However I didn't get my own potting compost because Pa had filled the boot of my little car :rotfl: so last night after work I zipped over to a nearby garden centre to get some. (Pa spent £30 on stuff for me so I still had some of my budget left ) As I went over a speed hump I remembered that in the boot of my car was still their old microwave that I was supposed to take to the tip......that helped curb my spending in the garden centre I just bought:
2 bags of miracle-grow (£10) which is highly recommended by the aged P's.
Some copper tape (little hope of keeping slugs out of the plastic raised bed without this stuff)
a bag Vermicillite (apparently stops nutrients being washed out of the soil.....)
a new cover for my 6 year old grow-house and
a hanging basket liner for the tomotoes (if they ever germinate)

This gardening lark is quite expensive really isn't it?

I've printed off (at work ) instructions for making a self-watering container that was described on page 28 (?) of the "show us your veg plot" thread on the green-fingered forum.

Popeye won't recognise the Bob Flowerdew that I've become :rotfl:

Karmacat

Hi Olive - it *does* sound like an okay day, cos you were "firm"

It would be *such* an upheaval in my life if my mum got dementia - my dad had it, and it was my mum who looked after him, of course. I wish I lived a bit closer, nowadays, but back in the day half of England was the least distance I needed from them.....

Glad to hear your raised bed is still standing!

OliveOyl_2

I read about free tyres (for potato growing for me, but actual usable 2nd hand tyres) on the green fingered forum.

So I e-mailed Pa and asked him about doing that, but he said he had bought 3 potato sacks for growing potatoes last year and hadn't got on with them..... did I want them? :j :j

(though why he thinks I'd be any more successful than him is anyones guess )

pepe2008

Hello Olive, potato sacks! I got best result from using sprouted spuds from back of cupboard rather than buying expensive seed pots. Got 2 crops from each sack ( but I used 100ltr compost bags, cheaper and still have comp to use ).

OliveOyl_2

I thought they warned against using kitchen sprouters because of the risk of disease?

But I think I'll take the risk anyway as it will be contained in Dad's bags.

OliveOyl_2

Well today is my ninth wedding anniversary :happylove but Popeye and I realised last week that we'd left it too late too exchange cards (too busy remembering Mothering Sunday and a couple of birthdays)

I got an e-mail today from him, "due to technical difficulties" he is going to be paid late again :mad:
So interest on the credit card - again :mad:

beanielou

Awww Happy anniversary Olive & Popeye
Grrrhhh to popeye being paid late