the daydream fund challenge thread

lostinrates

alfie_1 wrote: »

LIR.... your PM file is stuffed and not receiving anymore !!!:rotfl:
so
do you know if AM or PM tmorow??:)

Best for us is early afternoon....lunchtime ish? That way we are back to work here out of the heat of the day... is that ok? If not when is best for you!?

alfie_1

lostinrates wrote: »

Best for us is early afternoon....lunchtime ish? That way we are back to work here out of the heat of the day... is that ok? If not when is best for you!?

thats good for me. c u then...

lostinrates

alfie_1 wrote: »

thats good for me. c u then...

Super! :D:D

alfie_1

oh wow...we are having the most amazing thunder rumbling,lightening storm !!! it is heavy rain and theres just a constant rumble..... yet it feels so fresh out there !!

annie123

alfie_1 wrote: »

oh wow...we are having the most amazing thunder rumbling,lightening storm !!! it is heavy rain and theres just a constant rumble..... yet it feels so fresh out there !!

Save some for London please, my blueberries are desperate for rain rather than my tap water, and I love thunder and lightening storms:D

Davesnave

Lotus-eater wrote: »

, so why don't you run a specialised nursery in something.

Oh hangon :rotfl:

There are indeed a couple of specialist nurseries within spitting distance of here, one doing agapanthus and related species, and another doing rhododendrons.

I'd get bored with that. Some days I think, "We'll just do herbs." Then I go through the stock:
"Is a leucanthemum a herb?

DW: " No, not really."

"Ah..."

Originally, when we began ploughing our own furrow, we went out of our way to find unusual stuff, gave ourselves a poncy name and tried to cultivate as up-market an image as one can manage with a market stall. That worked because of the location, but towards the end, I persuaded DW to lower the prices, undercut others and....well, it wasn't exactly a surprise to me that we did better!

Now we have a new name, which I can't reveal here (or stalkers will look me up on Whois!) and the image is just about undercutting everyone else. If the local garden centre does perennials at £5.99 we'll do 'em at £3.50 etc.

Rummer

Dave would you consider selling online, or would the costs be too prohibitive?

COOLTRIKERCHICK

I thought we were going to have a storm last night as we had 'big blobs' of rain, but nothing, could really do with one..

re- the pet chicken boarding etc.... the chicken has taken over from the pet rabbit, so if anything is wrong with the chickens they take them to the vet,

I remember quite a few years ago, a friend of ours came to a farm auction with us, paid well over the odds for some ducks, and when one of htem had a bad wing, took it to the vet, the vet did say it would cost around £60, and she still went ahead,

But i agree a year or so down the line, we are going to see not only ex- battery hens trying to be rescused, but a load of pets ones going through rescues too..

by the way..... ex- battery chickens.... before they all used to get sold to the pie factories...... now the chicken in our pies have been brought in from the other side of the world

Rummer

We have plenty of rain here and you are welcome to it! Been trying to get out in the garden the last couple of days but it is too wet. The seedlings I planted in the main seem to be doing well which I am pleased with, still need to get loads of things in though.

COOLTRIKERCHICK

Davesnave....

It seems there is a huge demand for fruit and veg plants at the mo...

If i had my SH/land i think i would def grow more veg to sell on, I have done this in the past, and sold them in farm auctions etc...You just need to get the timing right, and get the ready for selling a couple of weeks before everyone else's.

when you go to your sales, is it worth buying seeds in bulk, and then re- packaging them with your nursery details on...and selling them?

Pick your own area? with runner beans, broad beans, etc? and you could also try selling them to local hotels etc... or what ever dont sell, blanch and freeze to eat over the winter,