the daydream fund challenge thread

rhiwfield

Thanks for the pms ladies. I've started an album that I'll load more photos to. Keep looking, there'll be more each day and some real treasures

Here's the link

Apart from rofl at the boned corsets, the serious bit is how and where to sell, and what prices. Might be best to pm me rather than distract the thread. Grateful to Alfie for her idea on the Chinese silk and Wow! reaction. That was my first thought too!

Welcome all newcomers. One theme that runs through the thread is money, or lack of it, and making a self sufficient lifestyle sustainable financially. Of all the harebrained schemes we've come up with, this one seems to have the most promise!

lostinrates

alfie_1 wrote: »

LIR... there are GF's being advertised here for £10 a head...discount for 5 plus.. does that sound expensive ??

no, it doesn't!

rhiwfield....re the corsets.....I wonder if they might be of any interest to stitching witch, for historical interest? She hasn't posted for a while..you'd probably be best to pm her.She'd probably appreciate a photo of them at least!

rhiwfield

lostinrates wrote: »

no, it doesn't!

rhiwfield....re the corsets.....I wonder if they might be of any interest to stitching witch, for historical interest? She hasn't posted for a while..you'd probably be best to pm her.She'd probably appreciate a photo of them at least!

Cheers LIR, will do! Btw, will upload a Scandale french bustier (?) later, 50s and very nice too!

splodger_seedswapper

lostinrates wrote: »

I really really want to get my own guinea fowl very soon.

i would offer you some eggs to put under a broody (in the spring) but i don't think our GF boy has got the hang of his dangly bits yet - he often tries to tread the chickens but haven't seen him tread the guinea girls yet

£10 each doesn't sound too bad either - maybe i should ask my dad if we can get a few more ourselves

splodger_seedswapper

oldtractor wrote: »

re trees,we were going to plant a copse but would then be short of grass so havent,but we have re insted lost hedge row. been hedging today its very satisfying.

unless you are wanting to grow really tall and really straight poles, like chestnut at over 80ft tall - which would require close planting - a copse area could be planted so that the trees are not that close together, lessening the density of canopy and allowing light to get to the ground (so you could still grow grass) hazel would be perfect for that, maybe a a few ash trees dotted here and there

lostinrates wrote: »

where we put in a new hedge line we're thinking of putting stock fence with hazel in front, so can coppice the hazel, ona cycle..it will make the hdge tall and lumpy, but also productive....we hope. Had hoped to get that in this year but haven't

a downside of growing hazel close to a fence - is it will grow through and around the wire - so any poles will probably be contorted and they won't be that easy to harvest - a few hazels here and there would help to bulk out the hedge though, but so would wych elm (and they produce perfect pea sticks) !!!!! willow works quite well along a hedge line too and the young rods are good for weaving

rhiwfield wrote: »

Welcome all newcomers. One theme that runs through the thread is money, or lack of it, and making a self sufficient lifestyle sustainable financially. Of all the harebrained schemes we've come up with, this one seems to have the most promise!

that sums me up - absolutely no money whatsoever - when my dad made his will a few years ago he asked me if i wanted a share of his savings - i said no thanks dad, i'll have the wood please - so any money will go elsewhere - but i would much rather have a small patch of ground than a lump sum in the bank :cool:

lostinrates

We can't have any more willow....for complicated reasons. But the stock fence can come down after a few years once the hazel is established The hedge the previous owners planted here under th contract terms is failing miserably, but I'm not meant to plant anything in there myself (I even offered to pay for some of the hedge and asked to put some british native trees in the mix too....we could do with a bit of a windbreak and a view break) but weren't allowed too. I thought I might grab some of those very inexpensive ones at the end of the bareroot season at the various retailiers..tesco, pound land, wilkinsons....can't hurt to try

btw, will pm later, my pm storage is full, but you are very close to the mark with location

Davesnave

rhiwfield wrote: »

Thanks for the pms ladies. I've started an album that I'll load more photos to. Keep looking, there'll be more each day and some real treasures.

I know when I'm out of my depth!

On the subject of hazels, I've been splitting rooted bits off my cultivated varieties because they produce super nuts. These have been growing on in pots, but some are now ready to go in. The idea is to have a hazel windbreak down one side of the garden area, but there's only four established hazels there ATM.

I've also done some potted elms by the same method, but they take an age. Nevertheless, we should be able to plant those this winter to bolster the elm hedge where it's still thin. I think we lost about half the 60 plants we put in there last winter, but the whole hedge is a honeycomb of vole holes so it's hit & miss, and there were some shaded-out as well. One learns.

Our ornamental copse will be just that, with a mix of species that won't be coppiced, but we might plant them close with a few harvestable trees that we remove later. The whole area of that is pretty small, so we'll only end up with about 12-15 trees. We are really just replacing the semi circle of trees we removed last winter, but in a block and at a more sensible distance from the drains & septic tank!

alfie_1

SPLODGER SEEDSWOPPER... now that IS a name:) im picturing surgically attached wellies with waistcoat with lots of pockets full of aquired [borrowed/non returnable/nicked] seeds ??? now who else do i know who fits that description

anyway,well done you for going with the wood...what a lovely legacy. iv always said i could live in a tent as long as i have space/land around me..

well iv just completed the challenge of the panto meeting...had a battle over the apprentice fairies..:) "director" wanted them all pretty pretty but i suggested they should be rebels...stripey/dotty tights,tutu, boots [ugg type] and punky hair...:D .......kids heard my suggestion and that was it ...D didnt stand a chance ...:D

my poor albert has to have his leg amputated :eek:..the skin on his leg has somehow got a nasty infection type that gets between the flesh and the skin.thus seperating so best thing for him is 3 legs...he will cope fine ,so tomorow he will be off for the op sorry if you are eating /hav just eaten reading that !!

LIR... do you want me to see if there are still some guineau fowl OR shall i try and wangle some eggs...:D weve got broodies so may do that...cheaper still...you know me i dont like paying full wack for anything !!:D my littlt pekin is sat on eggs now, had to let her as she kept hiding and as she has no hubby i put some of friends eggs under her...
your chooks at friends are SO full of themselves...hop through the elec fence and roam EVERYWHERE they own the place...:rotfl:

anyway im using my mini generater at the mo so power could go anytime !!:rotfl:

lostinrates

Yes please alfie, I'd like some guineas.....I don't have anything broody and can't face setting the cooker up this late in the year...in fact, might not be able to as think we're going to have to turn the electricity off a couople of times in the run up to Christmas for some electrical works. Do you know what colours there are?


Poor, poor Albert.

lostinrates

everyone is so quiet!

I'm hopeful, but not positive, dh might be able to get a couple of holes dug for the pears which arrive the week before christmas. I'm very concerned about this pleaching buisness, lol. splodger has offered to advise, and I know rhiwfield is great on trained trees, I was thinking it might be an idea to start a new thread with not so much an idiots guide but guiding idiot. If I could find my x(*&R%^ camera I could step by step photo it and ask for help.

e.g. these maiden trees are going to be short, and the guides I've read say to tie lower branches onto the lowest guiding wire...but (I feel really stupid writing this) the branches aren't going to reach where we want the lowest row across initially....so....how does that work??? In fact, thinking about it, doesn't matter if they do start lower than I thought, because its on a boundary so we're not going to walk underneath or anything.