the daydream fund challenge thread

Davesnave

alfie_1 wrote: »

im off to test drive some vans at the weekend...iv had such patronising conversations on the phone with some garages as soon as they think a girlie is buying... so tough,they dont get my business, money is hermaphrodite !!:rotfl:

Being a girlie can be useful though. I always put DW in charge of our 3.5 tonner if we have a large and rather 'commercial' looking load on at the dump. She gets far less grief* than me!

* Mind you, I usually ask for it!

And it's her van too, especially when it's time to insure. :rotfl:

Davesnave

alfie_1 wrote: »

Then I moved a whole load of terracotta pots into a shady part of the garden that just seems to gather leaves so I need to think what to plant in them, they are a variety of sizes so all suggestions welcome edible or bee friendly would be ideal.

how about hostas with nasturiums ? maybe an ornamental cabbage ? sweet peas ? trailing strawberries ?

Mints, and the other perennial thing that we add to salad leaves.....err......sorrel, got to have that!

Rummer

There is a gooseberry bush in the spot right next to it do you think one would do well in a pot?

lostinrates

Urgh, depressing morning.....despite there being no breeze to push the rain in sideways it still seems to be getting everywhere, the digs don't care their is no grass left in the garden and INSIST on hooning around in the mud....the back hall looks ready to plough everytime the dogs come in. Althugh its et I had to take the rugs of the oldies (the only ones in our herd still wearing rugs due to the unseasonal mildness) as they were too warm underneath, which means that I'll ave to bring them in and dry them off later because they'll ant rugs on tonight I imagine.

Davesnave

Aarrgghh! :eek: Someone from the village has found out about my photo-stream via a relative who tracked it down, somehow. I've deliberately never mentioned names for that reason. Knowing this locality, it will be on far too many screens if I don't lock it soon.:(

I wouldn't mind, but there are comments there which might be somewhat hurtful if viewed by one or two locals. The sale of this place wasn't a particularly happy event for some members the owner's family.

Don't worry, I'll give you lot a password, and when I get around to a new 2011 stream, I'll leave that open. ATM we haven't done enough to make starting one worthwhile.

Hate to say it, lir, but we are sunny & warm here!

Rummer, I wouldn't put goosegogs in a pot, but I've grown them successfully as cordon plants when space was tight.

Rummer

It has been a miserable and wet day so far and I think I may focus on getting the greenhouse organised as it is such a dump!

lostinrates

Glad you have nice weather Davesnave. Rummer...I'm glad you have a green house!

I've had cracking headaches today and yesterday....after critters I went back to bed this morning..but it won't shift. so, dreaming of home grown toms I opened tinned toms instead and made DH's supper a reheatable affair, in case I'm not up to much later.

Winged_one

Afternoon all, I've been a bit hibernating recently (more snowed under with work than anything else).

I have renewed my allotment contract for another year, and hope to get there this weekend (it's been too hectic since we were allowed back 3 weeks ago) so I hope to have parsnips and leeks on the menu next week!! Doubt if anything on the brassica bed will have survived.

I have also gathered a lot of takeaway coffee cups (mostly completely clean, a few washed out once emptied) from the office for starting off my broad beans too. I intend to sow broadies, spring onions, cabbage, cauliflower, lettuce and a couple of early tomatoes (and maybe a few early peas) this weekend. Either in pots to transfer later to the plot (most) or in the back garden itself.

The intention this year is to intensify the back garden a LOT more, with things we use all the time. And try to put more longer term things on the plot (onions, garlic, potatoes, brassicas, leeks, parsnips, borlotti beans, pumpkins and squashes, sweetcorn etc). I will have some peas, tomatoes, herbs etc there too, but mostly ones I intend preserving.

So the back garden will have one fence covered in peas, and the opposite side with mange tout. I want some climbing french beans, more cordon tomatoes, a few broadies, LOTS of salads, clumps of spring onions and turnips (baby ones), and lots of pots of basil and coriander! (Not asking for much!).

We are supposed to be getting chicks for PIL shortly too - once they set up the space for them. This is our retirement present and joint 65th birthday present to them, and what they wanted. We gave them the self-sufficiency "bible" (John Seymour's book) for Christmas too. Should be fun.

One thing I am finally getting working on this year is my crafting as more than a hobby. I am started on using my stash (quite a large one) to make things that I hope to sell in fairs, mainly around Christmas but hopefully summer too. Mostly sewing, but maybe some knitting too. And anything I make on that is going directly into the Daydream fund (now that the attic conversion is complete, I can start to rebuild that again!).

Looknig forward to finding some time again to catch up with you all.

Winged_one

Actually, I also have a couple of bags of shredded paperwork (no longer needed so was going to be sent for recycling anyway) to bring home this weekend too. I am planning on making a couple of trenches for my borlotti and french beans on the plot, putting in a load of shredded paper into both, and using this as a water reserve in the summer (that the paper will absorb whatever rain falls as the soil is bad at keeping it and watering by can is not really an option for everything).

Is this daft, or do I actually have a decent plan?
(I ask because I, yet again, got rolled eyes from OH when I brought home a bag yesterday).

alfie_1

hiya all.
its drizzled off and on all day.....
i managed to slide through the mud to get to feed hoss's this morning ! nearly bit the dust but wibble wobbled my way . i had 8 bags of feeds in the van and managed to get some workmen to carry them to the bins for me ...
ruby was up by the gate with them all and knows where i put her feed now [ got a new gate bucket holder for her] where the mini's cant pinch it !! barney has resigned to the fact she's staying so well pleased !:)

i loaded the trailer with a load of underground water drainage pipe things... for BF for a job hes doing in a friends water logged garden. it was a "davesnave" overload job :rotfl:but got it there. picked up a load of oak logs from thier garden [BF chainsawed a fallen huge branch last autumn] so that should save me paying out for a while...

then braved it into town to visit the bank, looking like a down and out by now... covered in green from logs, mud,hay,and generally filthy...:o [ my mother would have had a fit if shed seen me, telling me to smarten myself up !, dont see the point when im just coming back to do more mucky work ??] iv transplanted my standard shrub and put a frame and roses in its place...

so i do feel iv made up for the lack of movement from me this week !! probably regret it by tonite but hey ho !:)