Nice people thread 2 - now even nicer

wageslave

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I really should get more done in the garden too. I used to love all the home grown stuff. :A[/QUOTE]

What changed you?

sss555s

wageslave wrote: »

What changed you?

Other things took priority i guess.

You could easy buy fruit n veg and it took a lot of time so when other things came along it was the thing that stopped.

I would like to get back into it at some point and feel i'm missing out a bit as home grown tastes better.

wageslave

sss555s wrote: »

Other things took priority i guess.

You could easy buy fruit n veg and it took a lot of time so when other things came along it was the thing that stopped.

I would like to get back into it at some point and feel i'm missing out a bit as home grown tastes better.

Other things?

lostinrates

wageslave wrote: »

I have a garden. TBH it is the reason I bought this house. Which was a mistake. The brat hates this house and informs me it doesn't feel like home.

We have been here for seven years now.

She doesn't like the dog much either.

Could it be her age? i wouldn't worry too much. Home is the house you like/want.

eta: sounds like its time for you to ask your brother about that governess cart...if the ned is the right size for it. I think I might be looking for a ride and drive soon....the men in my family are wanting to drive. They think they want something flash and black....I think they'd be better with a nice bomb proof cob.

misskool

lemonjelly wrote: »

ETA going to the gee-gees is possibly not my thing. I don't gamble, & hardly ever drink, so less sure it'd be for me.

misskool I don't know whether to be relieved that you've sorted out your nettles or annoyed that you have courgette flowers!:mad:

I have courgettes, tomatoes, cucumbers and even hanging baskets on the go & not a flower in sight anywhere!

I had been blaming it on the winter being stretched out. The fact that everyone except me has something flowering is kinda inhibiting my theory!:mad::D

The nettles aren't sorted yet. I did say 6ftx6ft patch and they're about to flower so over 6ft high. doing it in bits.

The first courgette flower opened this morning :T Too bad it was male and there were no others. I'm growing 5 plants and 5 summer squashes. :rotfl:

I'm further south than you and I left a lot of the plants in the house/greenhouse for a lot longer (the courgettes were planted out 10 days ago), so any random cold spells we've had wouldn't have checked their growth. Maybe you put yours out a bit earlier?

A lot of my beans are only 3 inches high though although OH thinks I've gone mad as we have 6 runner beans, 100 pea plants, 12 climbing blue lake, 20 barlotti, 10 cherokee trail of tears, 12 bush saxa, 12 bush duel, 20 bush bolba d'albenga and a random assortment of broad beans. :eek:

I also have 30-odd tomatoes for both of us. :rotfl:

I know it's not very MSE but how about a day out doing some adventure sports? Maybe parachute jumping, ballonning or those ball things that you roll down a hill? Something out of the ordinary.

John_Pierpoint

Fertile ground round human dwellings grows nettles.
I'm not sure what it is that humans add to provide the magic ingredient.

lostinrates

John_Pierpoint wrote: »

Fertile ground round human dwellings grows nettles.
I'm not sure what it is that humans add to provide the magic ingredient.

Its usually dung. Old muck heaps are clearly identifiable too. In one of the field here we have been doing an experiment of not collecting horse dung (its collected to minimise internal parasites and to keep things tidy). What we have found is that in our very small sample of two we have NOT increased parasite burden, in fact, I send my samples off now, having no microscope and having a brain than flusters....and they keep coming back in the lowest range.

Not collecting means that we have areas of rough grass and lawn. The lawn is beautiful, even, close cropped, almost like sheep pasture and retty much weed free. The rough is frankly, scruffy and unattractive, with thistles and lots of nettles and docks.....fed by the droppings. The theory is the horses respect the toilet areas are for that purpose, and don't eat where they have soiled, where as if you collect it they eat all over and don' develop toilet areas. Its less work for us, and arguably better for wildlife, but rather antisocial . We are trying a mixed management, where the roughs are cut and cleared bt less often. It risks being the worst of both not the best of both. My feeling is it depends on the areal (rainfall/soil type) but most importantly stocking density as to whether it would work or not.

Basically, nettles equal nitrogen which often equals poop.

lemonjelly

wageslave wrote: »

I have a garden. TBH it is the reason I bought this house. Which was a mistake. The brat hates this house and informs me it doesn't feel like home.

We have been here for seven years now.

She doesn't like the dog much either.

LJ, you are doing the car thing, how do you feel about walking?

Hadrians wall.

You ever been?

Never been, but watched a programme on Hadrians wall the other evening.

Excellent suggestion wageslave!:T

I love walking.

misskool wrote: »

The nettles aren't sorted yet. I did say 6ftx6ft patch and they're about to flower so over 6ft high. doing it in bits.

The first courgette flower opened this morning :T Too bad it was male and there were no others. I'm growing 5 plants and 5 summer squashes. :rotfl:

I'm further south than you and I left a lot of the plants in the house/greenhouse for a lot longer (the courgettes were planted out 10 days ago), so any random cold spells we've had wouldn't have checked their growth. Maybe you put yours out a bit earlier?

A lot of my beans are only 3 inches high though although OH thinks I've gone mad as we have 6 runner beans, 100 pea plants, 12 climbing blue lake, 20 barlotti, 10 cherokee trail of tears, 12 bush saxa, 12 bush duel, 20 bush bolba d'albenga and a random assortment of broad beans. :eek:

I also have 30-odd tomatoes for both of us. :rotfl:

I know it's not very MSE but how about a day out doing some adventure sports? Maybe parachute jumping, ballonning or those ball things that you roll down a hill? Something out of the ordinary.

I only planted my sprouts & brocolli out in the past 2 weeks. My tomatoes, courgettes, cucumbers etc are still all in the greenhouse. I have been planning on putting the courgettes out soon as they're growing well. The cucumbers are still a little to small to put out to be honest...

lostinrates

lemonjelly wrote: »

I only planted my sprouts & brocolli out in the past 2 weeks. My tomatoes, courgettes, cucumbers etc are still all in the greenhouse. I have been planning on putting the courgettes out soon as they're growing well. The cucumbers are still a little to small to put out to be honest...

LJ I see uge differences in things like grass flowering between here and the new place. I'm surprised how much over a relatively short distance. Likewise Davesnave said he saw difference to my local area and his, a relatively short distance too. The difference between regions should really be more staggering than they seem on this within region difference.

lemonjelly

lostinrates wrote: »

LJ I see uge differences in things like grass flowering between here and the new place. I'm surprised how much over a relatively short distance. Likewise Davesnave said he saw difference to my local area and his, a relatively short distance too. The difference between regions should really be more staggering than they seem on this within region difference.

I'm biding my time lir...

All good things come to those who wait...;)