the daydream fund challenge thread

Davesnave

lostinrates wrote: »

you know you are on borrowed time.

I've been on that since a m/c incident it the 1960s! Love your weather descriptions.

I'd hoped to get some docks dug up in the field this week, but the ground is going to be too firm I think. We'll see I guess! It would be a good painting week I'f I'd made a decision about the wretched yard paint. Why are exterior paint colours so limited?:o

No painting in our yard for a long time yet, so I havent looked at those.

Digging docks? :eek: If I'd done it that way, I wonder where we'd be now? Organic I suppose. Our chicken orchard is almost organic....:o

Wind is all wrong for me. I want to burn off the hedge trimming stuff (about 4 dumpy bags) but the sparks would be heading for the new polytunnel. When the old owners left, their last act was to have a huge bonfire of all the stuff they didn't want to take. This damaged a couple of nearby trees and made some pretty holes in the old polytunnel...but they meant well.

lostinrates

Davesnave wrote: »

No painting in our yard for a long time yet, so I havent looked at those.

Digging docks? :eek: If I'd done it that way, I wonder where we'd be now? Organic I suppose. Our chicken orchard is almost organic....:o

Wind is all wrong for me. I want to burn off the hedge trimming stuff (about 4 dumpy bags) but the sparks would be heading for the new polytunnel. When the old owners left, their last act was to have a huge bonfire of all the stuff they didn't want to take. This damaged a couple of nearby trees and made some pretty holes in the old polytunnel...but they meant well.

Its not so bad to dig with the grazing system we've been using, because I'm only trying tpo maintain the strips they've grazed IYSWIM. Everything else was topped.

Our chickens are NOT organic atm, and probably won't be ....I'll keep that bit out of soil associastion if/when we go that route.

COOLTRIKERCHICK

talking about digging up docks..

If part of a field has reeds.. apart from doing drainage gullies etc to drain the land, how do you get rid of the reeds?

just had a look on google image to get a pic, but they are showing the water type reeds, the one i am talking about is in 'clumps' in fields, flip hope that makes sense....lol..

lostinrates

COOLTRIKERCHICK wrote: »

talking about digging up docks..

If part of a field has reeds.. apart from doing drainage gullies etc to drain the land, how do you get rid of the reeds?

just had a look on google image to get a pic, but they are showing the water type reeds, the one i am talking about is in 'clumps' in fields, flip hope that makes sense....lol..

I don't know, but I'd guess, with drainage and then cutting they'd weaken and not come back. But even with drainage I'd be wondering how good a site it would be for living/highish intensity use for grazing. If its only part of the land then you have excellent summer grazing and hay potential, if its the bulk then the mud will win in the end!

Davesnave

COOLTRIKERCHICK wrote: »

talking about digging up docks..

If part of a field has reeds.. apart from doing drainage gullies etc to drain the land, how do you get rid of the reeds?

just had a look on google image to get a pic, but they are showing the water type reeds, the one i am talking about is in 'clumps' in fields, flip hope that makes sense....lol..

You mean soft rush, I think. Drainage will probably help to get rid of that, but wherever I've looked at farms with it, they've just topped it as a control. Some fields were so full of it, they only used them for summer pasture.

On Exmoor, during the latter part of the 20th century, farmers were paid large subsidies for 'improving' pasture containing soft rush, heather etc by draining them. Then, people began to grumble about the character of the moor changing. I'm not sure what the situation is now, i.e. whether subsidies are paid to keep upland wet areas 'natural.'

choille

Davesnave wrote: »

You mean soft rush, I think. Drainage will probably help to get rid of that, but wherever I've looked at farms with it, they've just topped it as a control. Some fields were so full of it, they only used them for summer pasture.

On Exmoor, during the latter part of the 20th century, farmers were paid large subsidies for 'improving' pasture containing soft rush, heather etc by draining them. Then, people began to grumble about the character of the moor changing. I'm not sure what the situation is now, i.e. whether subsidies are paid to keep upland wet areas 'natural.'

Paid to manage rush pasture - leave some in for wetland birds - snipes etc. Since managing ours - cutting & leaving some.the snipe have vastly increased. It gives shelter for lambs to leave some in as well. It is a sign of wet, but if that's what you have then you kinda have to work with it unless you have oodles of dosh.

Sunny & weirdly warm today after biblical flood type weather!

One black orpington gose stepping, must investigate

rhiwfield - ebay & paypal charges do eat in but suits me living in car boot barren land!

RAS

Not sure whether the weather is balmy or barmy; last week at the Show I had four layers including a fleece and had to top that up with the newly purchased body warmer and yesterday I started on the plot in a short sleeved T-Shirt over a vest, had to extracate my arms from the vest straps to roll it down to my waist and them retrieve then to strip down to the vest! Have not worn that little on the plot all summer as the early sun was accompanied by fierce north winds.

Will have some ripe strawberries if the slugs hold off, from my standard plants not perpetuals. Autumn raspberries doing well but the blackberries were ruined by the repeated heavy rain last week. The grapes are just ripening a month later than last year, but was given some greehouse ones by a fellow plotter. Lovely.

off to do some urgent outdoor painting (white so that makes it easy) and sort grass, gutters and down pipes before the winter.

choille wrote: »

rhiwfield - ebay & paypal charges do eat in but suits me living in car boot barren land!

Do you have enough land to consider organising a car boot once or twice a year?

choille

It's too wet for cars really, but a thought.

Off to the big town so better peel ma wellies off.

Davesnave

"Arr, us b'aint zo bad roun' yer, atter all ......"

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/education-15035984


:D:D

OK, we aren't in Winkleigh, but we're pretty close, as the crow flies. Vet, garage, butcher etc etc.

COOLTRIKERCHICK

ok as i am the boss....:rotfl: alledgedly i have sneaked off work to come home... and do some 'paper work';):D:cool:

with my head swirling with diff things downsizing and moving the business and some otehr bits and pieces that are going on at mo... i just need to distract myself to get re-forcused so i think i might spend a few hours infront of my old sewing machine... so that means i cant think of other things as i might sew myself to the material...lol...:rotfl:

Weather is flipping beautifull here....

Just wondering if i want to sell broad bean plants next year...I know you can plant them out in autumn, but can you plant them in pots in autumn too? If i can, i think i will wait until this warm spell as passed first though...

Just want to do some forward planning for next year..;)