the daydream fund challenge thread

choille

The nettles may be a sign of too much nitrogen??? I don't know. Maybe too much foliar feed getting splashed around in there.

The wigwam things are easy to make out of willow slips - sorry don't know where you get them.

alfie_1

but I could do with the staging now, does anyone know a good place to get it cheaply?

whata bout some breeze blocks /bricks and put planks /strong wire [like wots put in cement for strength] across, building up in tiers ??

Poosmate

Just a guess here CTC but could it be registered as a business?

I watched the bear programme without incident (or tissues).

Alfie, good idea about the safety barriers (aka crowd control barriers). Maybe it could be boxed in to stop the horses getting their little hoofies trapped. And maybe fashion some kind of basket in the top using chicken wire?

Alfie, you reminded me, I must ask our depot manager how many tyres the guys pick up and if he can keep them for us to use about the depot as planters.

I'm sure I read somewhere about using old tyres as planters, something about them being toxic or something. I'll try to find the post about it.

Today would have been a no spend day for me but that I went and got petrol. I forgot to fill up last night and sometimes the supermarkets absorb the VAT for a few days after a rise. It's gone up to 122.9p per litre now. :-(

Poo

choille

days after a rise. It's gone up to 122.9p per litre now. :-(

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We are 138.9p pre rise.

The VAT rise shouldn't come in until the new deliveries arrive as the VAT goes on before it leaves the refinery - same with other stuff. It's all a hype I think & some will put it on immediately but I don't think that that is legal?

I think you may be right aboutthe tyres - I think that the rubber is not inert & probably isn't healthy to grow food in them - even though Bob Flowerdew used to!

Poosmate

I found this old thread about containers and thought it might be interesting for you all. It was on the "Olde Style" board so you may have missed it:

https://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/discussion/349458

ETA: Just checked the link to River Cottage half way down this thread and it doesn't say anything about growing in tyres!


There's anothr thread on tyre container growing so I'll have a look for that and post it here too.

ETA2:

LOL! I didn't realise it was you CTC who started it!

https://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/discussion/217260

The links in post 10 no longer work. There are some excellent ideas there CTC. Thanks very much. CTC = Coloured Tin Can.


Poo

troglodyte

Morning all!

Rummer (or anyone else needing plant advice) I can recommend Pippi (diary: https://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/discussion/2890158) as she is a trained plant expert with a specialty in willows!

lostinrates

CTC, we've just gone through this process (registering as as small holding with a number....the Defra number was not transferable here because if the massive split of land and that there were two purchasers...we couldn't both have the number )

Its very easy..but it does make you a business. We pay business rates for electric, for exemaple. But we have a domestic bin collection!

You HAVE to be DEFRA registered if you keep some animals....ruminants really, or more than 50 poultry for example. You're asked for the number when you buy animals and you register movements and any medical treatment they receive.

It means,for example, if there is a disease outbreak, they have details of places with livestock that could be impacted on...or need to be culled:(. They can trace disease movements with the DEFRA number.

EDIT: I'm headless chicken ing thismorning,hope you read back CTC....it DOES make the land eligable for grants. Country side stewardship for example. I'm hoping our grant will cover the hedge cutting for example. You have to apply by march for the year ahead...so we missed this years but are applying this month for the march deadline.

Lotus-eater

choille wrote: »

We are 138.9p pre rise.

The VAT rise shouldn't come in until the new deliveries arrive as the VAT goes on before it leaves the refinery - same with other stuff. It's all a hype I think & some will put it on immediately but I don't think that that is legal?

I wouldn't have thought it legal to sell at a lower rate. When a retailer has to sell something VAT rated, he has to sell it at the currant VAT rate, he has no choice over what rate to sell it at.
I can buy something in 2010 at 17.5% VAT, but if I sell it now, it has to be sold at 20%.

choille

I am not sure if that is the case or not, not sure if it is applicable to 'old stock'. Whatever, we pay through the teeth for it up here just now - the 2.5% is just a drop, or a drip, drip, drip of excessive charges that occur in rural areas.

lostinrates

wind is fantastic...keeping the ground relatively dry....yippee. sadly its started to drizzle yuck. Found things all over the place this morning because of the wind though. And I have punctured the wheelbarrow tyre. Grrrr.