the daydream fund challenge thread

choille

Sorry for my earlier freak out. I hate technology when things don't go my way smoothly.
Think I'm a step nearer in getting it sorted - I hope so.

Rummer - the pyramid things look pretty. I use twigs & do rows of peas, beans & mange tout in the same bed, but that's not pretty. I plant outside when it says on the packet to & ususally a few inches apart - 2 or so. I usually have to replant coz of mice? Pigdeons? the fact that I use ancient seeds I've had for years? I usually get my seeds in a box & bull dog clip them together on the month that they should be planted & place them in a rough order in the box. I don't plant owt outside until the soil's got a bit of heat in it - I leave things until the last minute usually - way out of kilter probably with what you lot can get away with.

I'm not gonna push the garden this year - rubbish season last year, very disappointing. I'll do what I can. That's all we can do.

Rummer

I am in central scotland so find that I have to leave things a bit later too. I am planning on using 8ft poles attached in pairs to a long pole in the middle if that makes sense? or do you think it would be better to just plant in rows? I have read that you should plant 3 seeds to each pole? I am happy to have a glut as I want to freeze some and have enough to feed my family and the beasts.

choille

Sorry Rummer - I thought you were way down South. Where about are you?

I think it doesn't matter how you plant - whether in rows or round a tepee thing. I find that when the plants get to a couple of inches high some of them vanish....mice? slugs? pigdeons? Not sure. I just use willow twigs & sort of tent them together. I plant & then a few weeks later I plant a bit more as that way they don't all come at once but after a bit I find that some seeds haven't come up or some plants have vamooshed so I replant in the gaps too. I think those pyramid cane affairs look rather grand. I should try & make some with bendy willow I suppose. They are good are homegrown peas & the more you pick them it seems to make more to come. My peas & beans were so late showing last year they didn't really produce that much until it went too cold for them. I fed the plants to the sheep when they were done - they liked them.

rhiwfield

Rummer wrote: »

I am in central scotland so find that I have to leave things a bit later too. I am planning on using 8ft poles attached in pairs to a long pole in the middle if that makes sense? or do you think it would be better to just plant in rows? I have read that you should plant 3 seeds to each pole? I am happy to have a glut as I want to freeze some and have enough to feed my family and the beasts.

Hi Rummer, FWIW we germinate the runner beans in toilet roll inners and plant out when frost risk is over, one to a pole. We allow a few spares as the slugs like them but you should then not have to worry about mice.

When the beans are in full growth they are pretty heavy and present a "sail" to the wind, so the support poles need to be firmly pushed in the ground and the crosspole tied in to each pair of uprights. So with a 6' row of beans with poles 12" apart, (rows a bit wider apart to improve stability) you'll have a double row totalling 14 plants, enough for you (and a few neighbours!).

And talking about companion planting, grow some sweet peas as a middle row. Some people say it attracts the pollinating bees, I just love the whole set-up of the foliage, beans, bean flowers and scented pretty sweet peas

You probably know all this anyway! Sorry!

Davesnave

CTC, I think I've said a few rude things about Gnoll Road already, not knowing you were properly interested, but the bottom line is, if a property's been on the market for a long time and no one has wanted it, then it's either too expensive or it's got something pretty serious wrong with it. As you say, the 8 acres is misleading, when most of it is unsuitable for animals or growing. Having security issues is just another nail in the coffin.

It wasn't right. Some of the places we looked at and got excited about weren't right either. Later on, we felt blessed that we'd been forced to abandon them.

Something better is waiting for you.

COOLTRIKERCHICK

Davesnave wrote: »

CTC, I think I've said a few rude things about Gnoll Road already, not knowing you were properly interested, but the bottom line is, if a property's been on the market for a long time and no one has wanted it, then it's either too expensive or it's got something pretty serious wrong with it. As you say, the 8 acres is misleading, when most of it is unsuitable for animals or growing. Having security issues is just another nail in the coffin.

It wasn't right. Some of the places we looked at and got excited about weren't right either. Later on, we felt blessed that we'd been forced to abandon them.

Something better is waiting for you.

Realistically you are right, and We totally agree with everything you have mentioned, but you know the potential situation we are in, so we are just trying to look at getting out of this potential hell hole..

Now my next remark is not racist towards the english, but the last 3 or 4 owners of this house have been english people who have move down into the area, and not really knowing there are right of ways across the land, and that most of the land is too carp to work... unless you want to breed wildfowl as we have a few, this was one idea that we would have done on the land get the digger in and turn the 2 or 3 small swop type pounds into a nice size pound, and divert the water running down the land to flow into this pound, and then have a trench to drain the water into the canal, so there would be a nice flow of water...

anyway sorry went of track... and with their attitude have got hte neighbours backs up... the latst owner's son had to do a moon light flit.. the hosue has been raided twice by the police....

This is the one good thing about when you are looking at a local property, you can find the 'in's and out's' of everything:rotfl:

I do have another plan, but they are totally dragging their feet, and have not replied to my offer:D

Davesnave

COOLTRIKERCHICK wrote: »

This is the one good thing about when you are looking at a local property, you can find the 'in's and out's' of everything:rotfl:

I do have another plan, but they are totally dragging their feet, and have not replied to my offer:D

You can do find lots out, cheaply, even if you aren't local. Did I ever say about how I'd ring people up and ask about the soil in places where I had an interest in a house? (There's always someone with a garden listed in the Yellow Book & resources like that.) Well, it would start as an enquiry about soil, but people will talk! You'd get "Well, whose place is up for sale then?" if it was a new one on the market. And then, "Oh that.....Well, good luck to you if you take that place on...." and so on.

It's human nature to chat, and they weren't necessarily negative comments, though I soon learned that everyone, no matter where they are, thinks they have particularly difficult soil! :rotfl:

But you're right, lots of people moving west into the Celtic regions don't do any research, or have the slightest concept of how the communities they intend to join will be different. I have two sets of relatives in Ammanford. Been there years and still don't know anyone. Why are they there? Well, it's at the end of the M4, innit?

If someone hasn't replied to an offer, then it's not a "No," is it?

COOLTRIKERCHICK

Davesnave wrote: »

You can do find lots out, cheaply, even if you aren't local. Did I ever say about how I'd ring people up and ask about the soil in places where I had an interest in a house? (There's always someone with a garden listed in the Yellow Book & resources like that.) Well, it would start as an enquiry about soil, but people will talk! You'd get "Well, whose place is up for sale then?" if it was a new one on the market. And then, "Oh that.....Well, good luck to you if you take that place on...." and so on.

It's human nature to chat, and they weren't necessarily negative comments, though I soon learned that everyone, no matter where they are, thinks they have particularly difficult soil! :rotfl:

But you're right, lots of people moving west into the Celtic regions don't do any research, or have the slightest concept of how the communities they intend to join will be different. I have two sets of relatives in Ammanford. Been there years and still don't know anyone. Why are they there? Well, it's at the end of the M4, innit?

If someone hasn't replied to an offer, then it's not a "No," is it?

I presume so, but If i know what type of min amount they would except then it would save all the 'faffing' around..

you know the one;)


The more you go into the vally around here the close knit the community gets, and if you get the back up of one, you get the backs up of everyone

Thats a good thing about phoning and asking about the soil...

My parents live in Ammanford...

lostinrates

Grr. Ground frozen and we still have stuff to go in it.

Davesnave

lostinrates wrote: »

Grr. Ground frozen and we still have stuff to go in it.

Yup, so I am sitting here writing a brief for the architect....some of the time! :whistle:

Did the RSPB bird survey for an hour this morning.:A DW is in charge, of that, so no idea what it means, but even I can see there's fewer greenfinches.