the daydream fund challenge thread

Optimisticpair

Davesnave wrote: »

My salad greens are through in the conservatory, so that's us properly started on the 2010 season. Anyone else planted anything yet? That's all I'm risking ATM.

Awful weather lately, another here with aches and pains.

Me too, not risking anything. I got my garlic into pots as soon as the snow went.

choille

Hi Poppycat 1 -
Welcome & good luck with your new hens. If I don't shut them in at night mine would be eaten. Once a fox, pine marten, otter finds a free meal they'll always keep popping back to check.

Good for you with the plans & doing doorstep sales - that's the way to go.

All the best.

Davesnave

Choille, thanks for your interest in the tunnel. The planning docs held by the Council have been computerised. When I tried to ask questions by 'phone, the bod on the other end couldn't find a thing, but when speaking with the Planning Officer last summer, he pulled a few things up on screen, including the original permission for two tunnels, neither of them large. Just a single one was actually built, covering about the same area as the two and in roughly the right place!

As I said before, if we build a much larger tunnel in line with our barn, we'll see it, but no one else will. It would be very close to the one we'll demolish. At the moment, we look down at the pole barn, so a tunnel won't be better or worse, and anyway, it's 80m from the house. Eventually, when we have a 'pretty' garden, we won't see much of either!

I'll look into grants and whether my holding is registered. If it is, it's supposed to have a number, but I don't know of one. Either way, I shall be toppng & getting rid of the main weeds this year, so fencing will come a little further down the line. Like you, I'm prioritising where the rest of our money is spent, but planning doesn't cost much,and good planning usually saves money.

Speaking of money, glad to hear you have filed the dreaded tax form, and pleased too that the ice has left you now, at last. It sounded terrible.

CTC glad you had a very successful start to the car booting season. As you say, anyone can read these forums, but I think we are small fry and really not worth anyone's time when there are naughty big fish out there. With our new business venture we shall need an accountant, I think, so we know what [STRIKE] we can get away with[/STRIKE] we are entitled to. :rotfl:DW used to do it all, bless her, but we're in a different ball game now.

Poppycat1, you are very welcome on this thread, as land is not a requirement, though imagination helps. As you say, a house with a large garden can still be a realistic target, and it might be the best thing for people who are busy elsewhere. With care, an ordinary garden can still yield an extraordinary amount!

Optimistic Pair, hello again. I forgot the garlic, because DW put that in about 5 days ago. That is definitely the only thing we've put in the garden so far. Aches and pains? Yes, but 'healthy' ones, because I wouldn't have them if I just sat on my rear end. That's how I see it. Still hurt, mind!

We have been clearing through our soft fruit beds and finding a few odd things, but I have been waffling on enough, so I will tell you what they are next time!;)

Poppycat1

Thanks for the welcome.

We got our first two eggs today from our chickens we collected on Sunday, really pleased. They are nice large ones. As a treat I cooked up our potato peelings for them.

My son is already planning his front door shop. He is hoping to get £100 per egg, lol.

Shared my dream with him yesterday about having a large garden and selling our produce. He is really keen, not sure he will be when he is in his twentys, which is when I will be able to afford it. He wants a small woodland attached to it so he can have a tree house and have wood for the fire.

Rummer

Good to meet you poppycat!

How are you all? I have been wrapped up with my guineas and other bits and pieces but I am counting the days until I can get planting! I really should go out and get some digging done but I am a bit of a fair weather gardener so I may just try to tackle the greenhouse in the next couple of weeks.

Getting ever closer to the dream though!

Poppycat1

Can any one tell me the difference between a greenhouse and a cold frame please? I have a lot to learn?

choille

Oh Poppycat that's so sweet. Now what you need to do is getting him digging over the garden.

Keep his dreams alive -I have wood & use it on my woodburner....but don't have a house as yet!

Same here Rummer - bit cold still. Have had a couple of sorties across at the veg plot, but nothing to boast about - bottom bed was still frozen solid. Interesting to note how in a small area the sun reaches & where the frost sits in the shade.
Did however empty the wood ash over the blackcurrant patch!
Funny to note that I took cuttings of them in the Autumn & stuck them in a bucket of water. The bucket was frozen solid for a month - tjhe cuttings are still alive! Hardy buzzards my blackcurrants.

choille

Cold frame is a low affair & not as hot, good for bringing cuttings on before hardening them off - sticking them outside.
Quite easy to make one out of old windows & bricks, or old wood for the frame.

choille

Well the snow is back...........................

Lotus-eater

choille wrote: »

Well the snow is back...........................

Ahh, snowball fights, high jinks and frozen pipes again