the daydream fund challenge thread

lostinrates

Rummer wrote: »

2 loganberry bushes! Never had them before but figured I would give them a go!

I think you'll love them. I think they are delicious. I'm quite tempte to try honey berries, but I want to taste one first. I'll never get over the disappointment of tasting goji berries after hearing so much raving over them. Yuck.

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.

Oh, I guess we all can nod at this. For us its still just this vast sea of ground that needs turning and weed and ....hen anything goes in it feels like an acheivement. Of course turning it over is helping not just our plants but new weeds...wher once we were just clearing out grass and ground alder we now have some sticky weed and cockoo pint too.

Rummer

It would be nice to have people come in and get all the garden prepped so I can just have fun planting!

lostinrates

Rummer wrote: »

It would be nice to have people come in and get all the garden prepped so I can just have fun planting!

It would. I'm also not confident now, about my garden designs. I wish I could afford landscapers! or at least work ut a way to get readable plans on here for input (the debate house prices people gave loads of feed back on house plans which really made us think hard helpful).

Rummer

After three years of working and living around the garden I know what I want to do to it, I am just too lazy to do all the donkey work!

rhiwfield

Rummer wrote: »

It would be nice to have people come in and get all the garden prepped so I can just have fun planting!

Strange thing is I really enjoyed designing and constructing the garden layout, steps, walls, fences, beds etc. Now if I could just get someone to do the planting and weeding.....

BTW, it was -2C in the GH last night, the tom seedlings left in there, just covered with a tarp with the hardier seedlings, are fine!

Simply amazed! And very, very, thankful!

Looks like ripe toms in June after all

Rummer

rhiwfield wrote: »

BTW, it was -2C in the GH last night, the tom seedlings left in there, just covered with a tarp with the hardier seedlings, are fine!

Simply amazed! And very, very, thankful!

Looks like ripe toms in June after all

Great news!

lostinrates

We didn't have a frost last night, but we're predicted on tonight. I feel quite bad for Edgar Allen Poe tree. Tortured and freezing.

Davesnave

lostinrates wrote: »

We didn't have a frost last night, but we're predicted on tonight. I feel quite bad for Edgar Allen Poe tree. Tortured and freezing.

We left here this morning in wall to wall sunshine and shirtsleeves, only to arrive on murky Mendip a few hours later, where a biting easterly went straight through the couple of extra layers we'd added by then. Weather's certainly localised ATM!

After picking up some fence posts, we travelled on to our old garden, which we'd not seen since about last October. There, we loaded the van with a dozen concrete blocks, several paving slabs, various old chimney pots/drains, four concrete planters, each of which I can barely lift, a whole pile of other junk and 160 pieces of glass for cloches. Then, we got talking to an old neighbour, so we were late leaving...

After the compulsory fish & chip stop, we eventually arrived home at around 8.45pm, and despite the frost which had set in again, there were still about 4 hens perched outside on the windbreak instead of inside their nice, warm house!

Incidentally, our friend's hen which took to roosting at the top of a 15' leylandii after a bout of red mite is still doing it! She survived the horrible December frosts, no problem. Shows what tough old things hens can be.

I think tomatoes are tougher than peppers too, judging by the way mine are behaving. I've lost a few peppers, but the toms are taking the up & down nature of the temperatures here pretty much in their stride. I have a new early variety of tom from Real Seeds on trial, and they are certainly romping away from the others. Toms in June this year!

Lotus-eater

I think that peppers are more vunerable when young, but are hardier than toms when older. Well that's what I've worked out anyway

rhiwfield

Frost again, but not as hard as yesterday when the chicken water froze. Just on the sunny edge of the weather with hazy sun all day, not that warm though, except in the GH where I need to refit the vent pistons

Got the maincrop onions in, weeded the strawb beds, sorted out spare strawbs for a neighbour and will top up beds with yet more stinky stuff today. Managing to get on top of all the detritus left after a hard winter and the growing areas are looking the part again.

Davesnave: 8.45pm? Snoozing in front of the fire