The revenge of the stripey socks - a DFW adventure

Pippilongstocking

Ah me fed up also much work to do so will prob hide in green house pretending to be productive.

hampsterpoo

fayjmck wrote: »

IPS BRB is now mine all mine evil laugh whwhwhwhahahahahah

Just popped into town to post some stuff and banged into a guy I know and his wife

so were you driving BRB at the time ? :rotfl: :rotfl:
If not why not

haleygrey

[What kind of things are you planning in your garden - and can I be of any help or service to you? Pointless knowing a tame gardener if you can't exploit her.

If you are up for being exploited, i will definitely take advantage! Need help with making my garden look relaxing but dogproof and also have decided to try a vege patch (also needs to be dog proof) got any ideas???? even mad ones will help, cos they'll probably work better

cheers

Pippilongstocking

haleygrey wrote: »

[What kind of things are you planning in your garden - and can I be of any help or service to you? Pointless knowing a tame gardener if you can't exploit her.

If you are up for being exploited, i will definitely take advantage! Need help with making my garden look relaxing but dogproof and also have decided to try a vege patch (also needs to be dog proof) got any ideas???? even mad ones will help, cos they'll probably work better

cheers

Ok what do you want in it? Start with how you want to use it - then we define what kind of things you can have in it and what kind of structures to keep the doggington away from the veggiegoodness.

When I design a garden for someone (it has been known and they have actually liked it) I ask them this:

What do you want to do in it
How often do you want to look after it
Who else will use it
Whats already there

Then you get to the logistiics of what you have to work around and decide how you can get what you want from your garden figured from there.

It important to really decide how much time you want to spend out maintaining it as it also decides what you will put in it and which materials you will use.

Then I normally draw out a plan - of whats there - write on wee bits of paper what I want in there - and move them about until I figure out some thing that is functional and aesthetic.

THEN you do the fun part of working out what plants etc you need.

It might be if you have a dog raised veggie garden beds would be good cos then you might not really need much fencing.

PM me some details if you like or PM me to get my email address and draw me a rough plan of your garden with dimensions and I can help a bit more.

OOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOHHHH how exciting!!:D

Pippilongstocking

hampsterpoo wrote: »

so were you driving BRB at the time ? :rotfl: :rotfl:
If not why not

They are making it all shiney and lovely giving it a service and then it gets delivered next week with someone giving me a demo of how to use the beast of burden.

Even up here in the far north I don't think driving round town on a lawnmower is really the thing to do.

sounds like fun though - dashing past the 9th century cathederal at about 2 miles an hour- that would add the bit of culture this town in needing I think

haleygrey

especially if theres a wedding and you stop to gawp and 'accidentally' get spotted in the background when the pictures are taken

Pippilongstocking

Update for today

Nowt much to report

Paid for the rest of the mower by switching it - checked bank account etc now the dd's are in the middle of the month there arent any stragglers - so as long as we get paid this week - I guess we wont starve.

Extra payment to scary hairy maclairy loan - only £5 today and also folded up a £5 note left after being at guide coffee morning and put into my sealed pot.

Teas been constructed for the week - got some turkey mince and again put the thing half half with soya protein stuff - can't tell the diference but out of a small pack of turkey mince I have now got 4 teas one for this week three on standby. List for this week is:
Frog in a bog (toad in the hole)

Shepherds pie
Fish and chips and peas
Lasagne garlic bread and baked pots
Mince neeps tatties and dumplings
Pasta surprise - pasta and something
Chicken fried rice with peas and corn
Fish and prawn green chilli curry (me) Pizza (little ankle biters)


Cleared out the veggie trug and found some very small shallots left from last year will just plant them - and a clove of garlic that was sprouting anyway so that will get planted too.

Keeping a look out for those herb pots in Mr T as they are great for starting off rows of parsley and coriander - if you split the pots up carefully they contain about 50 seedlings - you have to be careful but if you are you get about a years worth of parsley etc from just one pot. I have done this with basil before but you do have to be really careful with basil and it can be a bit sulky when its teased apart. Those pots look ace but they really are concentration camps for the little plants - they never survive cos they don't stand a chance being so closely sown in one pot.

I have just dishwashered and scrubbed by hand about 80ish seed trays - using dishwasher makes me laugh cos my ex hubby would hit the roof - compost everywhere - but I put them in thinking - duck you mate its my dishwasher now - if I want to put composty pots in it then I will.

Seeds to sow but need write out labels first so thats today's task at hand in a mo - I love this.

Clean out a billion trays and then put dirt in them - only a garderer would be so perverse. And I love the smell of jeyes fluid - so the kitchen stinks and looks like a really bad game of seedtray jenga at the moment - probably a real health and safety risk:D

OOOH JUST REMEMBERED AS I WRITE OUT MY LABELS FOR MY SEEDS - ALWAYS ALWAYS ALWAYS USE A PENCIL TO WRITE YOUR LABELS WITH - COS THEY WIPE OFF AND YOU NEVER NEED TO BUY ANY MORE LABELS EVER AGAIN MY GRANPA TAUGHT ME THAT ONE - GARDNERS ARE VERY VERY FRUGAL FOLK:)

haleygrey

Health and Safety? thats just another name for stopping people from using their common sense. Anyway all that dirt is good for you!

Pippilongstocking

Yeah more worried about the dogs and children being covered under a mountain of seed trays - its like random modern art at the moment - I quite like it but I guess its not really very fucntional in the kitchen.

I may even take a photo of them - to remind myself - how sad am I??

sophiesmum_2

I'm all sad now thinking about little herbies in concentration camps:eek:
Need to get sowing some of my seeds tomorrow:p