the daydream fund challenge thread

Davesnave

choille wrote: »

Dave -I posted a link to youtube doing the pheasent peeling thing but then noticed how obscene the comments were so thought best to delete the link.

I will take a look. Thanks. Think I might cope with a few obscene comments, though maybe not just yet! It was a fairly wild night here too.

My seeds from Real Seeds have just arrived, so if it carries on raining, I'll have something else to do. We've about 100 more hellebores to sort out yet, so they'll look their best while flowering. We have our fingers crossed that there won't be so much hellebore black death this spring, after we were ruthless in destroying affected plants last year. I think it's too much to hope there won't be any. Should it be like last year, I'll be sorely tempted to destroy all the full size plants and start again with seedlings.

lostinrates

Davesnave wrote: »

I will take a look. Thanks. Think I might cope with a few obscene comments, though maybe not just yet! It was a fairly wild night here too.

My seeds from Real Seeds have just arrived, so if it carries on raining, I'll have something else to do. We've about 100 more hellebores to sort out yet, so they'll look their best while flowering. We have our fingers crossed that there won't be so much hellebore black death this spring, after we were ruthless in destroying affected plants last year. I think it's too much to hope there won't be any. Should it be like last year, I'll be sorely tempted to destroy all the full size plants and start again with seedlings.

Oh no....I better google hellebore black death...sounds dreaful. We have two little ones I planted here an they are so cheerful.

Davesnave

alfie_1 wrote: »

. i get it swept but it is SO tall it collects at the very top and away it goes... i have seriously got to look at getting it lined [££££S] and using a woodstove.

apart from that iv had a quiet day really...

Love the throwaway line at the end!

In our house that had a serious fire, (started by someone other than ourselves) we had a chimney where the smoke went up.....and came straight down one in a back bedroom! So, while getting stuff done on insurance, we had the chimney lined a new, tall pot put on and a cap on the one we didn't use. It must've cost a tidy sum.

Anyway, it didn't make a ha'porth of difference! We just had to seal up the back bedroom chimney, apart from an air vent, and keep its door closed when we had a real fire.

Davesnave

lostinrates wrote: »

Oh no....I better google hellebore black death...sounds dreaful. We have two little ones I planted here an they are so cheerful.

Don't worry, unless you see it, and if you see it you will know it.

Ours came from stock bought in from a nursery in Wales which, ominously, stopped doing its annual hellebore show a couple of years back!

rhiwfield

Lotus Eater, ok, thanks, so no more burning driftwood

Davesnave, did the pheasant fast skinning with the pair given us before christmas. Basically stand on wings, pull legs firmly, clean and trim. Bit gory though.

Pecking order is fascinating, before christmas it was blue, then blacktail, then maran. The maran was beginning to suffer so the blue was separated out for a week. But the blacktail continued to peck the maran. Reintroduced the blue, and put nose clip on blacktail.

Its now sweetness and light, but the order is now maran, then blue, then blacktail. Very little aggression, but maran using its weight advantage to reach apples, greens and pellets first. Its good to see her lively, rather than hunched up and nervous.

And she came back into lay yesterday

Davesnave

With ours it's always been the oldest Welsummer who's in charge, but she doesn't throw her weight around and mostly lets the silly Vorwerks do as they please.

Last night though, the two silliest Vorwerks were messing about at bedtime, as usual, when she suddenly came out of the house and chased them inside, giving both a nasty peck. Hopefully, this is a useful development. We noticed that they'd all gone inside and roosted properly the night before, so maybe it's not the first time.

RAS

Been chucking it again and due for more over the next two days.

Rivers already well up and the water in the canal about 10cm below the towpath.

Not going to get much done of the plot tomorrow, I fear.

Oh well......

Rummer

I have finally got things in seed trays! Yay the growing season has begun!!!!!

soupdragon10

Picked up some rhubarb in Morrisons, and as the ground is fair waterlogged here at the moment have put them in large pots to get them going.

Seem to have the tail end of the high winds now - bad enough with windows rattling so much I can hear them even without my high tech ears.

lostinrates

You're all making me feel better: we have alot of standing water in the summer grazing, a little in the spring grazing, but the gardens are relatively ok. I'm cautious as though ''ok'' in in places ruddy good, even in the good places I'm mindful the base type is clay.,,,so don't want to pack it down too much.