the daydream fund challenge thread

RAS

Definately agree on listing; my favourite was a "Victorian farm house" according to the listing. Anyone read the date stone over the front door? Thought not.

lostinrates

Well, I got out today and drove ''home'' to get my Mother whose staying for a while, and it does fel like spring....lots of farmers out kicking ground and walking fencelines, scowling at holes in fences and hedges. Think it might be nearing cow turn out here

Rummer

I did loads of work today but we have a huge amount of soil and cuttings that need to be taken away and our compost bins are full to the max and I don't know the best way to get rid if it apart from a hundred trips to the tip??

rhiwfield

Rummer, dont know if it would work for you but we crush/shred all non-thorny cuttings from hedges and use them as either mulches for perennial plants or as top up for the paths.

Re soil, we've used all ours for raised beds, using weed suppressant where needed. But if you've no need for it, even to use in your boggy area, why not freecycle it to save you the tip trips?

Lir, spring today? Brass monkey weather more like!

CTC, snooze would have been nice but on pc all afternoon sorting out speed. And a result, now 2.4mbps sync, 4x higher than a week back :j. (For any townies out there near an exchange, please dont post your connection speed, I'd rather not know )

Davesnave

Our elm transplants from Buckingham Nurseries arrived yesterday afternoon. They're good healthy looking things, but it's going to be a tough job planting them into the gaps in the established hedge and then keeping them alive. I was half minded to go for hornbeam, which looks similar & is cheaper, but thought I'd give the real thing a go first. If we get a wet year, it'll help.

Off to the Varmer's Store today to get some more outdoor plumbing stuff. Then I can repair the pipe we dug up while pulling trees out. We have pipework everywhere here, but not all of it has been traced!

Rummer

Davesnave wrote: »

If we get a wet year, it'll help.

No :eek: we want sunshine

rhiwfield

Rummer wrote: »

No :eek: we want sunshine

No problem, it'll rain at night and be lovely sunshine all day long, mark my words

Lightly salted the asparagus beds this morning, beats doing it when cooking .

lostinrates

Localised drought please ...I have this water issue......

But it can be a wet summer...I don't need to cut hay...for all the damage it can do to the veg spending money on cutting grass that isn't feedable is more expensive and more depressing.

Rummer

rhiwfield wrote: »

No problem, it'll rain at night and be lovely sunshine all day long, mark my words

Perfect solution

My hedges are looking marvelous and I am very chuffed with myself! Not sure still what to do with all the garden rubbish. Going to get some more digging and weeding done this afternoon.

Do you think that raspberries would grow ok in semi shade?

lostinrates

Rummer wrote: »

Do you think that raspberries would grow ok in semi shade?

I was wondering this.

we always see all soft fruits i the sun/sunny cages but which are the fruits of the forest and would they really grow in shade....currants? wild strawbs? raspberries?