the daydream fund challenge thread

RAS

Rummer wrote: »

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

Yes, they are woodland plants. It is only us humanS that insist on planting them in full sunlight.

Rummer

Marvelous then I can plant oodles of them along the hedge as it is just wasted space atm!

lostinrates

My own personal search for spring today...I saw some hedge greening up already a couple of miles away my neighbours willow is greening up, as is a nearby apple tree (but not he willow opposite me). But the true thing that made me feel this is spring is that the dogs got supper BEFORE the chickens were locked away.

alfie_1

lostinrates wrote: »

My own personal search for spring today...I saw some hedge greening up already a couple of miles away my neighbours willow is greening up, as is a nearby apple tree (but not he willow opposite me). But the true thing that made me feel this is spring is that the dogs got supper BEFORE the chickens were locked away.

hi all, well my clematis under my window is in bud and not far from flowering !!! forsythia is out, daffs are coming out and magnolia has huge buds....

GOT 3 EGGS TODAY! My pep talk must have worked...
spent most of today cleaning all chicken houses out,stable and swept. inbetween i fetched a new hoover for an 80yr old lady and delivered a load of breeze blocks for BF....
got roast chicken in oven and my bath is run so....see u later !

rhiwfield

What a glorious day yesterday and lots done outside. Late on DW brought toms in from GH and switched off frost protection.

This morning, with thick white frost on the ground, noticed utility room just had the tray of battered toms that I'd dropped 2 days back while the main tray of seedlings had been left in the GH :(:(:(:(

Cant bring myself to check, where's an "uncontrollably weeping" smilie when you need one?

COOLTRIKERCHICK

rhiwfield wrote: »

What a glorious day yesterday and lots done outside. Late on DW brought toms in from GH and switched off frost protection.

This morning, with thick white frost on the ground, noticed utility room just had the tray of battered toms that I'd dropped 2 days back while the main tray of seedlings had been left in the GH :(:(:(:(

Cant bring myself to check, where's an "uncontrollably weeping" smilie when you need one?

Rhiwfield...... poo.......Your still have time to sow some more seeds...

we have frost here too:eek:, yesturday even though the sum was shining, i just couldnt warm up at all ...

I am so tired lately, i feel as though i could sleep for a month of sundays:rotfl: stroll on spring/summer

Lotus-eater

I haven't even sown my tomatoes yet.

troglodyte

A quick hello - sorry, been MIA for a while and now haven't had a chance to catch up yet.

Just wondered if anyone interested in (more) chickens had seen this

We're thinking about re-homing a few.

Rummer

I have been reading " The garden cottage diaries - My year in the eighteenth century" by Fiona J Houston. If you haven't heard of it it is about a woman who spends a year living as a teachers family would in the 1790s. I have been really enjoying it and it is making for a funny and interesting read with lots of original recipes and tips.

Went to Lidl today to get their fruit bushes but there was not as many as I hoped to get but I came home with a heap of raspberries and blackcurrents. I then popped into homebase and treated myself to 2 loganberry bushes! Never had them before but figured I would give them a go!

Tonight I am going to make a real effort to get another load of things planted. The garden is frustrating me. I have so much that I want to do and there are not enough hours in the day or money in the pot to do it.

Lotus-eater

troglodyte wrote: »

A quick hello - sorry, been MIA for a while and now haven't had a chance to catch up yet.

Just wondered if anyone interested in (more) chickens had seen this

We're thinking about re-homing a few.

In all honesty, I would advise against it. I've seen the clip and the lady's various forum postings.

Look at it this way, these hens have another 6 months of commercial laying capacity left, after that they would be discarded. This is because they are bred to get the maximum amount of eggs out in the first 18 months, then they are expected to drop dead, or whatever, no one really cares.

On the whole I don't really agree with rehoming battery chickens, despite having done so myself in the past.

But, obviously, you pays your money and you takes your choice.