Clawing my way out of debt!

Lemon_Tree

yep we have an allotment (half a plot), which seems huge to me - approx 25ft by 35ft
i have lots of plans for veggies, but am trying to be realistic as it's currently all covered in grass. OH keeps trying to do some work on it but it's just mud at the moment, but we do have a pallet compost bin now! (very mse as was given the pallets for free.)

catspaw

Its a shock when you first take one over isn't it?
I had to climb over the wall to get into mine as the brambles had overgrown the door!:D
I had on full bike leather to get in........it took 6 hours to clear a small path, mind you, by the end of the first summer I had managed to find soooo much.

Under the brambles....1 greenhouse (yes it was that overgrown), 21 water barrels, a shed, a mutent ruhbarb patch, a bed of roses, 4 gooseberry bushes, 4 blackcurrent bushes, raspberrys, 2 wheel barrows and I hadn't even managed to clear enough to get under the trees.

but it was worth it.

Claw_back_money

catspaw wrote: »

Under the brambles....1 greenhouse (yes it was that overgrown), 21 water barrels, a shed, a mutent ruhbarb patch, a bed of roses, 4 gooseberry bushes, 4 blackcurrent bushes, raspberrys, 2 wheel barrows and I hadn't even managed to clear enough to get under the trees.

but it was worth it.

It sounds like 'the secret garden' - quite an adventure! It must have been huge...
Are your window sills crowded with lovely plants now, Catspaw?

Cbm

catspaw

No worse luck CBM: I had to leave them all when I moved:mad:,
they used to be sooooo full the cat couldn't sit on ANY window sill in the house.

Though I planted tomotos last week in a window planter and they are growing well, very well, so hope to have lots of tomatos this year.
Have also bought lettace ( ooo terrible spelling this mornign), and sweet corn and have lots of things planned.

Will be moving at thew begining of April...am seeing flatts tmw...not any houses goiing down here at the moment , or none in my price bracket.
One of the ones I am going to see has a balcony so loads of grwoing room and huge windows.

Claw_back_money

You've obviously got green fingers - I'm rubbish with growing things, even my spider plant looks like it wants to crawl off to someone else's house and be loved, and they're supposed to be bomb proof.
We've got a herb patch in the garden with bay tree and really rampant rosemary, and a couple of other herbs, but that's about our limit. Ooh and a plum tree.

Cbm

ETA - didn't know you could grow sweet corn indoors???

catspaw

CM: am not sure on the swwetcorn but the DD's want to give it a go! so we wil try

Lemon_Tree

ours doesn't have brambles, much, but is covered in grass. Theres a bit at the end which appears to have been a loose compost/dumping ground. But OH is tidying that a bit and we've made one pallet compost bin so far. Just need a week of drier weather so that we can get out there once the soil stops resembling a mud bath.

catspaw

Beware the mutant rhubarb! It will strike when you are least expecting !:rotfl:

And anyone who says cover bits of it with carpet is right.....though not the rhubarb........I had carpets from local pubs coovering all of mine under the brambles....and when I took it off the rhubarb leave were 3 ft across and the stalks as thick as my forearm.....and it sprtead worse ythan knot weed........I took to posting it half way across the country to my mother on a monthly basis:D, and giving it to the local vicar....and anyone else who wanted it.

Had 2 stone of blackberries the first summer though:D

Lemon_Tree

we don't have any plants there that i can tell to be honest. But i do have rhubarb in our back garden which doesn't seem to be doing very well. I think i keep moving it much too much and it gets grumpy with me.

catspaw

Feed it beer and see what happens:D

Have had 3 NSD in a row: which is good, but been laid up in bed since Friay with the flu . DD's have been on their best behaviour.

i realsied that at the start of this dieary I said that I wanted to be DF by Sept this year.
Well, I know this isn't going to happen.

I will be moving begining ofApril so me and DD's can get truely sorted, but have to buy soooo much stuff....as in furniture and crockery.....then it is on with the DFW...........so I will be rivising my DFD to Sept 29th 2011.

This means that I won't beat myself up about not getting there this year. I'm not looking at it as a failure as I think that will put me off what I am trying to do, am looking at it as the final step on the road to financial freedom.

I can no look att my bank balance without being scared, I know what is due to be paid out and when, I know if I go to the hole in the wall that there is money in there, and I know that my bills are being paid.

My staatements and bills are all nicely filed in a file ( not stuffed in a draw) and I think that this last year I have finally made progress.:j