the daydream fund challenge thread

lostinrates

rhiwfield wrote: »

With all this talk of wind. its maybe relevant that I've just been told (nicely) that I stink

This may have something to do with the fact that I've just shovelled up several bagloads of humming, hot, municipal compost, brought them home and spread them on DW's rose beds and the terraced veg bed.

Am I praised for this act of selfless kindness? What do you think?

Next thing I'll be given a bell to warn people I'm near

Thikn: I smell like that every morning and sometimes evenings too. :o

TBH I wish I still smelt like that today; I stupidly washed my hair and I'm FREEZING.

Rummer

We do not have such a scheme near us which means once I have used our home made compost that I have to buy some from big DIY stores. I think this year though we might build a huge compost heap from pallets.

What is the best way to get rid of nettles, can they just be dug out or will they keep coming back? It is an area of the garden far away from any food production but I would rather not use chemicals if possible.

choille

CTC - Really sorry to hear about the super starting work. Pity you couldn't find some really rare natter jack toads or black fungus stuff. Maybe you could do some sort of gate sale to cash in on the extra footfall when it opens?

Nettles - take some digging out & they do come back so you have to keep on at them, but you do get there. They make brilliant tea in the Spring - really good source of iron & they make a very good plant food as long as you make it before they set seed in the Summer. You can make beer & soup & some call it poor man's spinach.

Really hard frost here today but superbly clear & dazzling as we tripped out doing some work out past Gairloch & Skye looked as close as if you could reach across & touch it almost - a trick of the light. Truly stunning day but brassic.

alfie_1

Rummer wrote: »

We do not have such a scheme near us which means once I have used our home made compost that I have to buy some from big DIY stores. I think this year though we might build a huge compost heap from pallets.

What is the best way to get rid of nettles, can they just be dug out or will they keep coming back? It is an area of the garden far away from any food production but I would rather not use chemicals if possible.

i use 6X compost. it is like peat BUT TRUE BLUE POOH ! scats have ite. you do not need a lot ,just sprinkle on the ground and dig in...its brilliant between plants already established. i put it in my pots and baskets too. great results [obviously the real thing is better in bigger areas.
re the nettles.... i had a patch and i put down old carpet and woodchipped it and put seats on it... so it was a "spot" to view the garden from a different angle....worked atreat and no nettles since..

alfie_1

POOSMATE ...thanks for that link..
looks quite time consuming but i will find out how to BULK make it !
it is about 67p litre , sounds cheap but = £330+ per 500 ltrs. this winter has been the worst for usage...

alfie_1

my day has consisted ,it seems, of perfoming acrobatics on the end of a rope connected to firstly a brat of a hairy midget, knee high to a grasshopper ,with the capabilities of a showjumper and secondly to a precocious, mummies girl who doesnt seem to like anyone else touching her, and rebelling and making said owner look a complete dork !!:o
my arms are like an orang utans, i swear and i feel like iv been pulled in every direction defying gravity....

love em really......;)

lostinrates

Oh Alfie, you have my sympathy. But your Blacksmith will be used to it, and now it can become part of their routine each time they'll get better with his and your patience and persistence.

I'm so cold I could weep. No ice, but it really feels like there should be. I'm being lent a car for the weekend, but I really can't think of anywhere I need to go! DH has bought back the Land rover but its going to take a long while to get to, so I need to buy a car. There are car auctions near here, and I think I' going to see what they are like....just go and watch. I have a car on loan for March and some of April....but then a big gap. A very good friend is going to Afghanistan and said I can have theirs is we aren't sorted by Autumn (oh goodness, summer without a car seems a dreadful proposition). Its a very smart car, and I said I was worried about keeping it smart...they shrugged and said''Look on the bright side, you might get to keep it''. Gallows humour...but of all my friends and ex lovers to have gone to that sad situation this is the one I'd struggle living without in the world.

After this weekend the back garden becomes mud as the sewerage goes in. The buildiing inspector from the council was nice....but what a rip off. If I've read the charts and fees right, for each window we replace it has to be checked and the charge £100. To look at a window. To assess our pooing facilities is costing three hundred.We'll have to do a lot of ''off grid''defecation to make that pay back!

alfie_1

After this weekend the back garden becomes mud as the sewerage goes in. The buildiing inspector from the council was nice....but what a rip off. If I've read the charts and fees right, for each window we replace it has to be checked and the charge £100. To look at a window. To assess our pooing facilities is costing three hundred.We'll have to do a lot of ''off grid''defecation to make that pay back!

WHAT !!!! my friends daughter has just renovated an old cottage and she didnt have to pay that?? she just had a one off fee??
can you get a private inspection? or does it "have" to be them..... [con]

lostinrates

alfie_1 wrote: »

After this weekend the back garden becomes mud as the sewerage goes in. The buildiing inspector from the council was nice....but what a rip off. If I've read the charts and fees right, for each window we replace it has to be checked and the charge £100. To look at a window. To assess our pooing facilities is costing three hundred.We'll have to do a lot of ''off grid''defecation to make that pay back!

WHAT !!!! my friends daughter has just renovated an old cottage and she didnt have to pay that?? she just had a one off fee??
can you get a private inspection? or does it "have" to be them..... [con]

We are not eligable for the one off fee, we asked. It HAS to be them. He's a nice guy...but its going to stick in my crop paying it.

rhiwfield

lostinrates wrote: »

Oh Alfie, you have my sympathy. But your Blacksmith will be used to it, and now it can become part of their routine each time they'll get better with his and your patience and persistence.

And I thought on first read of Alfie's post that she was looking after her gds!! Wondered why she kept them on a rope . Sorry, Alfie!

Lir, hope you get to give back your friends car, just feel we shouldnt be in some parts of the world, rather see the politicians in the front line instead.

CTC, is there still a plan B ?

Rummer, usually the problem is not the size of the compost heap, its generating enough material to fill it

btw, got plenty of Welsh onion plants (allium fistulosum, red) if anyone is interested, collect if near or I'll try to post. pm me if interested.