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  • Rummer
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    Hello Everyone

    Not had a chance to read all the posts so I am a bit behind in the chat! Just wanted to share with people who will care, we finally after three years have fruit on our plum tree! It is so lovely eating home grown fruit.
    Taking responsibility one penny at a time!
  • Rummer
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    Oh and for those of you with a homebase nearby my local one was selling off a lot of plants reduced and I got quite a lot of bargains :D
    Taking responsibility one penny at a time!
  • Davesnave
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    Rummer wrote: »
    Just wanted to share with people who will care, we finally after three years have fruit on our plum tree! It is so lovely eating home grown fruit.

    It's been a great plum year; they're giving them away in our village.

    If only the blooming branches wouldn't snap! DW has already tidied up the trees that are done, but we've obviously got our pruning a bit wrong. :o
  • alfie_1
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    Rummer wrote: »
    Hello Everyone

    Not had a chance to read all the posts so I am a bit behind in the chat! Just wanted to share with people who will care, we finally after three years have fruit on our plum tree! It is so lovely eating home grown fruit.
    WELL DONE WITH YOUR PLUMS..... my tree is still a baby and had about 12 plums on it ! but i thought that was a valient effort for a 'littlun....:)

    my apple tree's overflweth
    my cherry tree's efforts were gobbled up by everything that had wings....

    i have just been out to visit "my old lady" [does sewing on dresses for me],took a lot of the dresses to show her...she was like a kid in a sweet shop!!:rotfl:

    i passed a garden that was full of rose bushes and ALL needed to be deadheaded !:( why do people not realise that in doing that they will get roses till xmas ! it took all my will not to knock the door and offer to do it ! [i always carry a little pair of folding secatuers in my bag,mainly for nicking seed heads....:D]...

    im going to continue my attack on the front hedge this afternoon,then get mabel fodder from the market.

    i have to hoik out a sofa bed from upstairs as the mechanics of it make it more an impliment of torture when you get in /on it....:o last person sleeping there had to call for help as it sort of "ate" them....:D

    anyway i hope everyone has a good weekend,iv banned visitors this W/end as they hold me up and i need to get a lot done.....:):)
  • alfie_1
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    Davesnave wrote: »
    It's been a great plum year; they're giving them away in our village.

    If only the blooming branches wouldn't snap! DW has already tidied up the trees that are done, but we've obviously got our pruning a bit wrong. :o
    just a thought....i saw a brilliant idea in an orchard once. each tree had a stout pole strapped up the centre stem?[ and from the top was straps [bit like umbrella spokes ,]tied to the outlying branches thus supporting the weight of the fruit .the farmer assured me it was "an old trick" used in HIS fathers day and they suffered no broken branches.
  • Rummer
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    Spent quite a few hours in the garden today and although it was dull it was warm. I tried to weed the border at the front but it is so wet that it is covered in marsh type plants which are really hard to remove :mad:

    I did however attack the ivy that grows up the front of our house, as pretty as it looks from a distance the stuff is evil and has lots of little leg type bits that stick to things like glue. I hacked it back from the door and the windows so it looks a bit better but it is at gutter level and still growing up :eek:.

    Then I made a hearty attempt to clear the scarily over grown raised beds and I had to fight relentlessly with the creepy buttercups, is there anything that kills them and them alone??
    Taking responsibility one penny at a time!
  • alfie_1
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    edited 3 September 2011 at 10:52PM
    evening....well i had a visitor this evening but she was allowed.!! [she stayed with me for just over a year when she left her ex.till she got her own place] we've known each other since teens and have same warped sense of humour.
    ANYWAY I DIDNT "DO" MY HEDGE .... i pruned instead....
    i actually hoovered through as well...must be something in the water !!

    when im collecting mabel food i am amazed at how many pensioners stop,watch me and then ask if they can have some...i explain its not MINE but if they tell me what they'd like i will pass it to them . so now i have my "regulars"..i tell them im already mucky [hands get bit sticky etc] so to just standby with thier bags ! one couple have 20 tortoises and like certain fruit/veg [i gave the old boy a lift home the other week as his wife was away and he had a lot !]...im getting where im already seperating it before they arrive now. getting to be quite a social event...im getting sad and old !!!
  • lostinrates
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    Well....one meal is a true smallholders meal this summer:

    the biggest thickest steak I've seen in my life.....from upo the hill in a swapsie.
    Potatos from the garden boiled and crushed with (ahem, himalyan) salt, probably the only marmonds that will ripen this year, in a salad with our one cucumber, a garden apple, the last of the lettuce, a celery from neighbours garden, grilled courgettes. Blue cheese sauce...from the stash of blue cheese from a posh Knightsbridge store in the sell of in the new year and the cream from the field next door.


    And wine......from spain!
  • Rummer
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    Sounds delicious LIR :D

    We had another lovely day today and I spent all of it in the garden which was total bliss! Finished tidying the front and cleared another raised bed. Weeded all the pots and trimmed back the raspberries.

    Then I tamed the herb patch and made it larger spreading the plants out a bit more so they have space to grow instead of squishing each other. It looks so much better now :)

    Also battled part of the hedge using very blunt (and cheap) shears which hardly gave the smart finish I had envisaged :rotfl:. Still it looks a bit better and after a good sweep up the back garden is almost presentable.

    Sadly the garden furniture that we have has seen better days and I am going to have to replace it as two seats have snapped in the last few weeks, not when I have sat on them (mercifully) :rotfl::rotfl:
    I think now would be a good time to buy a new set as lots of them will be on sale.
    Taking responsibility one penny at a time!
  • alfie_1
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    hi all

    well iv had an interesting day ! i actually overslept till 11.30am....just didnt wake up !!:o then of course i was running round like a loop feeding everything ..getting pained looks from mabel as if she had had to starve for a year not a few hours !!
    this afternoon i had a young couple [early 20s] who are from rumania and have been working at a local farm here, . she modelled my dresses for me so i have a huge portfolio now. she is truly beautifull in a natural way and petite [spit..] she loved it. wore every dress with such glee it was a pleasure to see..got over 140 pics in nearly 20 dresses.... they are both off home soon and will be back to university.
    without getting into the politics of foreign workers ..IN THIS INSTANCE.. there are not many that would work under this local farmers regime i can tell you.[average 72hr weeks...take it or leave it!] it makes me feel ashamed. but as they explained it is thier only way to try and better themselves and to get a career in the future. id like to see the local "youth" do what they have to do without whinging !!...
    anyway, i think this couple are great and they had a big roast dinner [thier 1st!] and they kept thanking ME ??

    i took them back to the farm and have come back exhausted now....
    tomorow is move chook day ...i hope.:)

    it was raining this morning [apparently] and then bright sun all afternoon and rain again at 8pm so very variable at the moment...
    i have to go check that the holiday visitors got in/settled into the cottage i mind tomorow. they are here for 2 weeks . also next weekend is the beaulieu auto jumble and i want to go to that [i do nip over the back fence and across the field behind a mates house...have done for years and hate to break with tradition !!:D]

    i keep thinking iv either missed or have forgotten an appointment with something/someone ??:o will no doubt get a phone call telling me soon if i have !!:rotfl:

    anyway sorry not very interesting post tonight..
    hope evryone has had a good weekend and has a good week to come
    evening all:)
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