the daydream fund challenge thread

choille

Hi Bonsibabe,

I have a lemon tree & a grapefruit grown from seeds. They're a few years old now. I always put them indoors, and only put them out in the heat of the summer.
Definately Autumn up here now.

bonsibabe

Thanks choille, am off in a bit to get some pots for them. Going to keep them indoors till summer now.

Rummer

Oh I think I will have to try planting seeds from other things I have eaten! Thanks for that info Dave!

meanmarie

Going to chance putting €100 away in my fund to-morrow, things are a bit tight but should be ok with that amount, will try to put more in when I come back off holidays, but will have to buy TV license (€160)then so maybe not!

I have two very nice avocado plants I grew from stones, will put them in greenhouse for winter as its getting cold here now, have grown lemons in the past and found that they liked the steamy atmosphere in the bathroom.

Dave, glad to hear of the benefits of all your hard work on orchard, envy you having space to have sheep, I loved having them years ago but we had to give up when we 'lost' the free land we had been using to graze them on.

Good luck to all

Marie

zarazara

Hi stitching witch. I recommend growing flowers to sell eg sweetpeas and salad crops fruit and herbs. you could trade jobs for goods eg clean someones car and get some eggs as payment.

stitching_witch

The £50 goes into my savings account from my final salary on Monday so I've updated my signature already. I will be getting a cheque back in November. DH and I have decided what to invest in and it will be to do with self-sufficiency.....:T
......but I'll keep you all guessing for a month!

Rummer

That is so unfair, spill!

choille

Seriously, I mustn't whinge. It's just that I expected to either have a house to do up, or land to sort, or a nursery garden to create, but somehow I've ended-up with all three to do at the same time. That wouldn't matter to a younger chap, but it will take years, and at my age (60) I get impatient, which is silly.:o

Dave we ended up with a croft, so we can build a house - really - I suppose. I always wanted ground, now I have oodles, but it hadn't been 'worked' for over 50 years at least. We are not getting any younger, but i have a nearish neighbour who is in his early 40s & he does so little. It isn't the age that matters it's what you do with your day that counts.

I sometimes feel overwhelmed, but I just have to concentrate on one area or job at a time. I wish we had more money for decent big boy's toys like an Allen Sythe, but we borrow one. Brilliant things. And I am slowly digging out brambles by hand as I don't like weed killer.

If you can get fencing done for £2 @ metre that's incredibly cheap. I have had loads done - with Wenlock & that cost £5 Plus a metre. I've spent thousands on it, but as I have stock it was a must do. Ragwort is easy to pull out - after 3 years I hardly get any coming up now at all _ I had loads to start with, but i've got on top of it. It's the bracken & brambles & reeds that's the main problem now.
But each day is different & I'm fit & active. I aim to hack on, as it beats working! I'm nearly 50 & my partner is nearly 60, but we are fit & there are jobs that won't need doing twice thankfully - like building our house. If I thought about all the jobs that needed doing I would go mental, so try not to dwell on that!:rotfl::rotfl::rotfl:
Good luck to you.

Davesnave

Wise words, choille. Thank you, I'm going to use you as inspiration. After all, my climate & soil are favourable, and I don't have to build a house from scratch!

I've been eyeing-up an Allen Scythe myself, but my mower man has suggested something else. The jury is still out on that one. Meanwhile, I have found a great brushcutter line, called Nylsaw, which seems to stand up to all the nonsense I give it, instead of breaking, melting or jamming. It's twice the price, but as I'm actually using all of it, instead of losing bits, it's really MSE.;)

The estimate I made for fencing was for doing it myself, but I may be well out in my pricing. Funnily enough, one of my discoveries while clearing the orchard was a post driver, but I think it's a two or three man device as I can barely lift the thing!

Another discovery I made this week was about 150 empty wine bottles, buried at the base of an old wall. That's my predecessor again: I’m always cursing him for burying electric fence wire and baler twine all over this place, since much of it ends up wrapped around the brush-cutter!:mad:

Good to hear some of you folk are putting money away. We had a windfall this week; just a return of overpaid tax, but it took them so long I'd forgotten about it!:D

COOLTRIKERCHICK

Hi all...

havent read read back posts, so i will have to catch up with whats going on..:cool:

done another month car boot at the farm auction, and done over £400:j...

once i get enough to pay off one of the work vans, i will feel alot more relaxed with cashflow in work, so then i will start saving again.

The farm auction is once a month, so we were thinking of doing another car boot sale inbetween, one that is in a farming community... so to get the same sort of client for my secondhand wellies for a £1...lol..

i have also started putting some bits of vintage fabric on ebay, so money trickling in there..

i have had another batch of eggs hatch, this time they are red silkies that i bought off ebay, sadly 5 of them didnt hatch:o. but i also put more of our silkie x cochin eggs in, which hatched out lovely.

we are going to put another batch of our eggs in today, again silkie x cochins.

We are going to keep them until the spring, so they will be just at the point of lay stage, and because they are silkie x hopefully we should get a good price for them at auction.

the first lot we have are all blues:D so look pretty... will have to try and take some pics later to show you..

better go as i want to get off my butt and do some work:rotfl: