the daydream fund challenge thread

Davesnave

rhiwfield wrote: »

Re your top field, if its got botanical value then fertiliser (apart from a light manure dressing) is likely to reduce that value, but make for better grazing!

It's of no great botanic value. Looks nothing like 'yours,' I'm afraid!:(

Rummer

Dry day here today, think I might start organising the back of the garden so I can access the cold frame that I have never used . The greenhouse needs a good clear and clean too.

COOLTRIKERCHICK

SpendlessKaren wrote: »

Thank you for the lovely welcomes. I am due to leave work in the next 8 weeks - I find out if I have redundancy on 17 March, and if not then I will be giving 4 weeks notice so will be home again either end of April or latest end of May. I am lucky enough to be able to not work so and have only continued to do so to get out of the house etc, but am fed up of it now and also fed up of being stung for so much tax because I choose to work.
I am going to spend my free time having a go at growing some herbs and tomatoes in pots this year, my back garden is really small and all paved but it is sunny so I think I could grown some things.
I love reading the posts on here too so will no doubt be spending a lot of my free time on this forum lol

Karen here is a link to an old thread that has been revisited lately, might give you some ideas

https://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/discussion/2510707

Rummer

COOLTRIKERCHICK wrote: »

Karen here is a link to an old thread that has been revisited lately, might give you some ideas

https://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/discussion/2510707

Thanks for that link CTC what a real inspiration for compact gardens! I have seen lots of things that I would like to implement on my patio this year

rhiwfield

Davesnave wrote: »

It's of no great botanic value. Looks nothing like 'yours,' I'm afraid!:(

Shame in a way, the old hay meadows were much prettier than todays silage fields, but a lot less productive so not a surprise so few are left.

And sorry, you mentioned our field , cant resist a few more photos:p


After the hay rake
You can see why its such hard work on the steep slope


Summer flowers
Mainly hawkbeards, hawkbits with a few knapweeds


Birds Foot Trefoil in late Spring (after the cowslips)

With a few round heads of salad burnet in the foreground (leaves taste like cucumber)

COOLTRIKERCHICK

FINALLY...... been out the garden to start tidyng up... managed to scare the kids and hubby into helping me too....lol... they took some bags of broken plastic flower pots etc up to the tip...and dismantled a very old chicken shed, that was way past its best, i think the brambles were holding it together...

Have peeps planted their onion sets yet? dont know whether to plant the ones i bought yet, really feel the urge to plant them...lol... but i am afraid the frost might have them, or doesnt it make any difference with onion sets? as i normally start them off in module trays in the greenhouse, and once they have a good root on them plant them out...

Davesnave

COOLTRIKERCHICK wrote: »

Have peeps planted their onion sets yet? dont know whether to plant the ones i bought yet, really feel the urge to plant them...lol... but i am afraid the frost might have them, or doesnt it make any difference with onion sets? as i normally start them off in module trays in the greenhouse, and once they have a good root on them plant them out...

I've done onions from seed this year as an experiment. I'm sure you could put sets in now though. Our garlic is fairly romping away and we only stuck that in a few weeks back.

Just ordered three more POL Welsummers, which will be with us next Friday. Got to boost the egg production somehow!

rhiwfield

COOLTRIKERCHICK wrote: »

Have peeps planted their onion sets yet? dont know whether to plant the ones i bought yet, really feel the urge to plant them...lol... but i am afraid the frost might have them, or doesnt it make any difference with onion sets? as i normally start them off in module trays in the greenhouse, and once they have a good root on them plant them out...

Put mine in a few days ago, CTC, same time as last year and they did ok. Got so many things in starter pots/trays atm its just a relief to put something direct into the soil without all the palaver

COOLTRIKERCHICK

thanks Davesnave and rhiwfield....

Last year my garlic was carp... gone out to where i planted them last year 9 thought i had pulled them all up, and there are some growing:rotfl:, so i think i will leave them and see what happens

Just about to start painting a small shed that we used for our young chicks that were too big for the brooder, but too small to put out in the bigger run/pens going to use it to store some wood in for this year....its only a small q&q type garden shed, but might as well make use of it... We are holding back on the hatching this year... well for now anyway....just seeing how things pan out.... with everything..

Davesnave

rhiwfield wrote: »

Shame in a way, the old hay meadows were much prettier than todays silage fields, but a lot less productive so not a surprise so few are left.

And sorry, you mentioned our field , cant resist a few more photos:p

Those wild flowers are a treat.

I think we could rustle up a few yarrow, dandelions and creeping buttercup! I can see the docks and thistles are up for Round 2 as well, but at least there's no sign of ragwort this year.

At the end of 2009 we pulled out what ragwort we could and treated the rest. Last spring, we had about 50 come up, which were instantly spot treated, and now we seem to be totally clear. Early days yet though!

Strolled down to the other end today to discover that the grumpy message I'd left with Openreach last week had had an effect. Mr Dog's 'phone line has been regularised at last, so there is no temporary line trailing through the bushes.:D Nobody asked permission to come on the land though, and the workmen had trampled everything in the immediate area.:mad: No matter, it will be an embankment this time next year, and behind it I think we'll have a nice pond with some ducks. Which ones quack the loudest? :rotfl:

DD1 'phoned mid afternoon to say she had a bid on a chain saw about 12 miles from here. As it was a 65cc 18" jobbie, I was relieved when it went elsewhere, allowing me to finish planting the target number of elm saplings I'd set myself. Having dug many holes now, I can tell you that 30cm down, the soil is still blooming cold!