the daydream fund challenge thread

hollysmum22

hi at the moment we ae renting a 2 bed flat with no garden any suggestions on veg i can grow in a window box

lostinrates

hollysmum22 wrote: »

hi at the moment we ae renting a 2 bed flat with no garden any suggestions on veg i can grow in a window box

cut and come again salad leaves are invaluable: you can eat them at every meal, herbs: I've grown herbs in a small strawberry planter in flats...they smell good, they get used at every meal in drinks etc and I've grown tomatoes on window sills too. But the tomatoes do steal all of you summer light on the sils! Strawberries I've done in windowboxes very successfully, not huge crops but enough to slice over breakfast many summer mornings.

Davesnave

alfie_1 wrote: »

what sort of lick do you give your sheep?? whats it for and can i put one out when they are in with the ponies?

Hee, hee, I wish I knew.:o Remember they aren't 'my' sheep, though they've certainly felt like mine over the last month, the amount of attention I've given them!

Today the ram as very friendly,mainly because he thought he was going to get more haylage out of me, but I just patted him and topped up with the older hay. As the roads are still bad and I don't expect to see Pete before Wednesday, I'm trying to eke out the supply he left last week.

Walked into town this afternoon and discovered it wasn't much better there than here, with only 4WD moving.



With more snow forecast and no thaw in the immediate future, we are abandoning our other shopping plans. We were going local for the meat etc anyway. Like others, we just hope that our DD1 can get here OK, even if it's not on Wednesday, as planned.

Stop Press: Gritter has just passed. Better late than never.

alfie_1

lostinrates wrote: »

Came up with a brilliant solution for the old horse today, my clever friend thought of it. Have left a message for the new vet for approval (its iffy legal ground otherwise, but with approval I'm ''qualified'' to do it) and I'm sure vet will agree to it as a short term solution for this weather if we need to.

Though we had quite a bit more snow today....nice fresh crunch underfoot, the horses are choosing to snuffle it away to find grass to augment their hay. The chickens haven't bothered even trying going out today. I'm feeling a lot perkier this evening so the news that DH is staying at work was not so bad...I feel able to cope well.

dare i ask what solution is ?? or is it an " i will have to kill you if i tell you".....:rotfl:

lostinrates

alfie_1 wrote: »

dare i ask what solution is ?? or is it an " i will have to kill you if i tell you".....:rotfl:

If I told you I would have to kill you

I've PMed you. Its totally horse friendly and vet is on board and keen to see if it works

Davesnave

lostinrates wrote: »

cut and come again salad leaves are invaluable: you can eat them at every meal, herbs: I've grown herbs in a small strawberry planter in flats...they smell good, they get used at every meal in drinks etc.

My peppers are still soldiering-on in the conservatory, and I'm determined some will last to be cut on Christmas Day. It is down to about 4C in there now and the cut & come again salad is struggling, especially as the light levels are so poor with snow on the roof! I wouldn't be without it though, as it's so easy and cheap compared with shop bought.

As we have quite an aphid problem on the peppers and some ornamentals, I'm not surprised that we've had a pair of wrens in there over the last two days, helping themselves.:) They are very welcome, but I have to leave the door ajar for them!:(

If I can get a couple of the peppers to survive, and that's a big 'if,' I'll take their leaves off, repot and see if I can encourage them to do a second season. That way we might get peppers somewhat earlier.

alfie_1

hollysmum22 wrote: »

hi at the moment we ae renting a 2 bed flat with no garden any suggestions on veg i can grow in a window box

you can get hanging basket tomatoes too... like little cherry tomatoes so as long as you dont have to hang too far out of yr window they will do. pinch out the tips when they get to the length you can reach safely

alfie_1

lostinrates wrote: »

If I told you I would have to kill you

I've PMed you. Its totally horse friendly and vet is on board and keen to see if it works

please dont kill me...... iv PMd u back

choille

Well - the wedged hen, one of the black orpingtons was perky, but it's foot seems not good - like a sprain, weird don't know what's gone on there.

I put it out in the hen house & now I feel awful, but didn't want to keep it away from its mates & not really great having it in the caravan. What do you do.....?

Well we've seen about 4 weather forecasts & they're all differnt but we think it may thaw a bit tomorrow - hope so - enough to get away over to the East, but I'm not holding out too much hope. It's really hard walking outside - quite exhausting.

I've been asked for one of my stories for an anthology - so that was nice news.

Growing things in a flat - try & get a mushroom kit as you can get that under the bed, or anywhere dark - possibly. It's nice to sprout beans in an airing cupboard too - if you have one - I don't :-( I did have a lemon & grapefruit trees growing from pips but they died in the shed - but that a nice thing to get going - they are expensive to buy. I didn't get them fruiting but the leaves smelt nice - which I hadn't known before growing them.

Just gonna wander up to the sheep - it's like daylight out there with the moon - beautiful.

alfie_1

Well - the wedged hen, one of the black orpingtons was perky, but it's foot seems not good - like a sprain, weird don't know what's gone on there.

I put it out in the hen house & now I feel awful, but didn't want to keep it away from its mates & not really great having it in the caravan. What do you do.....?

a friend had a chook that was being picked on by the others and so i brought it home and put it in the greenhouse with 2 "stupid" tiny polish type banties [cant put them in with others as with thier top nots disrupting thier view, they are neurotic] the hen was just sat for days and even now only walks when it HAS to. it is very weak in its legs...?? wondered if it had spinal damage from pecking? it is happy enough but cant go out again as it wouldnt survive me thinks.

p.s. oh how wonderfull to see the view by moon light like that...
im lucky here i have no street lights and have the most amazing view of stars when they are out...