the daydream fund challenge thread

COOLTRIKERCHICK

I havent even thought about planing seeds....:cool:

today i have just been hearing the 2 dump trucks shifting earth from one factory area to another, and passing our entrance road like a bat out of hell, in the end i had to go over and tell them to stop driving like hassssshooooles i have also contacted hsc as there are no signs at the entrance of the site, no hard hats, no high viz etc...
nothing to say watch out for plant/ machinery... and this is only to clear the trees and to level the ground... flip knows what its going to be like when the actual construction of hte supermaket starts..

Going to phone the welsh heritage tomorrow as its on the site of and old irom works and there is the old kilns burried etc...

Anything to make life Hell for them, as they are going to make our lives hell

lostinrates

Oh rummer you put us to shame. My dad called in and that wasted my afternoon, though nice to see him. I have NOTHING edible sown yet. I did do some sweet peas last week and noticed one has popped up today. I also got a few barrows of last summer poop into the new bed. Its going to be a long job.

Rummer

I have got a bit carried away and my OH will hit the roof when he sees how full our window ledges are! Just going to go and plant some sweet peas now!

lostinrates

Rummer wrote: »

I have got a bit carried away and my OH will hit the roof when he sees how full our window ledges are! Just going to go and plant some sweet peas now!

I love window sills full of little hopeful and mismatched pots/containers of HOPE! Joyful.

I don't have any trays for pots ATM...and I'm scrabbling around looking for things to stand pots etc on sils.

Davesnave

In the absence of a chain saw, (I was promised one to borrow at the w/e) I have been doing all the jobs on the exhumed stumps that would be done by hand anyway, like cutting off the roots. I also got a bit carried away, so produced some firewood using the hand saw, but there are some stumps that are just too large.

Meanwhile, DW was erecting an old steel market stall we once used as an outdoor potting-up tent. She wants it this time as a sales tent. She fitted a new stripey cover to it, so it's reasonably smart, but I'm worried that it will fly when we get a gale! It was always in a sheltered location before and I could put concrete blocks inside to weigh down the frame, but if we do that here it will detract from the appearance. I can see myself painting breeze blocks next! :rotfl:

Still time to find a rare newt or something CTC! Well done for getting on the case with the council regarding the land you're interested in.

alfie_1

good evening all.
you all seem so industrious compared to me !!

iv slumped again today and done very little. trouble is i go like a bat out of hell when i can and then pay the price...can never find a happy medium

i too was puzzled by the "maths lesson" and felt it should be "more" rather than "less"..

i need a cure for looking at e-bay i need to not want those wonderfull old articles from pre war that are purely decorative and of no use whatsoever !!

if i register as a smallholding do i HAVE to be a business then ??
im not exactly gonna be selling eggs !!;)
could sell pig pooh?? what about plants ??

im slowly trying to drain water off my lawn, keep stabbing the fork about.... the forest is like mini lakes everywhere at the mo, no where for it to go !! makes for a waste of time trying to keep the dogs and my hall mud free....:(


oh dear i have more:( than on this post !!
CTC glad you did well at your vintage sale
RUMMER glad you are cracking on with the planting
DAVESNAVE...go on ..paint the bricks :rotfl:
ANYONE ELSE IV FORGOTTEN... well hope u r having fun too

lostinrates

alfie_1 wrote: »

if i register as a smallholding do i HAVE to be a business then ??too

Not sure. I think you need a business number to get the grant...or maybe their is a nn business grant...stwardship rather than single farm payments? Call defra, they're nice on the phone.:o

soupdragon10

The sun shone today :j and this spurred me to finally tackle the greehouse clearing that I need to do before I can plant anything. OH helped me move the 8ft staging out so that I could clear the accumulated debris from several years of just planting and running.

I now need to disinfect everything before cleaning all the glass, reinstating the staging and starting things into growth.

Any ideas for the best way to disinfect everything? I want to kill off all the nasties, have hopefully relocated as many of the spiders as humanly possible, so just a concrete floor, glass and aluminium. Would a wash with hot soapy water to get all the gunk off, followed by was down with disinfectand do the trick?

choille

Jeyes Fluid.

alfie_1

i will call defra, always been helpfull in the past anyway!

i use a spray bottle with dilute disinfectant, spray glass , floor, etc then put the jet wash on low on it... shifts dirt etc. when i have all my pots ,plants etc in i put a bug bomb in. [ this year i will have to remember to remove chooks 1st!!:)]
i always buy the tesco floorwipes £1 a pkt. they are MUCH stronger than others and bigger and are great for wiping allsorts. antibacterial too.

my guilt is rising and i have told myself friday is sort my seeds before its too late day !!