From Trash to Cash: Dribbling a river

Crafty_Toots

Night night Jo, sleep tight honey.

Hi Poo *wave* - lol yes, I'm guilty of hooking, but only with a crochet hook and some yarn you understand!!! Your garden/land sounds fabulous, what a pity you don't get the enjoyment from it. Whereabouts are you hun? Maybe one of the dribblers would be interested?

NLID of course you can use pots, dead simple! We grew loads of potatoes last year in pots, and the list is almost endless! Carrots etc are a good idea too. For anyone thinking about using pots, please please head to your local Morrison's store and if they don't have them out on sale, ask for used flower buckets. You know the ones, the buckets they put the fresh flowers out on display in - they don't reuse them! My local M's cottoned on to this and now tape 5 together and sell them that way, but I'm sure I paid £1 for the last lot and the guy chucked in a few extras. Be real nice and flutter your eyelashes, you never know what you might get!! Doesn't need to be expensive at all. And there are always seed bargains/giveaways to take advantage of. I know there is a grow your own thread here on MSE, but there is also a site called Grow Your Own and the advice on the forum over there is invaluable.

Toots x

Poosmate

MSE Link:

http://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/forumdisplay.php?s=&daysprune=&f=134

There you go!

Poo

Poosmate

Crafty_Toots wrote: »

Hi Poo *wave* - lol yes, I'm guilty of hooking, but only with a crochet hook and some yarn you understand!!! Your garden/land sounds fabulous, what a pity you don't get the enjoyment from it. Whereabouts are you hun? Maybe one of the dribblers would be interested?

I've tried crocheting before but not very good at it, also tried tatting too and not very good at that either! I just not very crafty or creative!

The Landshare thing is a really good idea, it came from Hugh Fearnly Whittingstall (he of River Cottage fame). The site is linked (tenuously) to the Channel 4 website.

Basically, they get people to post if they have a garden or a field or any plot of land that they ither don't use or can't handle and others who are looking for land to grow veg post requesting land to use, so the growers and landowners are matched up. I've been on the site recently and they've improved it - only it's now diabolical! You put your postcode in and it brings up growers within a 50mile radius! How rediculous is that!? You may as well go to the supermarket - their stuff would have less carbon miles on it! I think it was in response to the lack of allotment plots available nowadays. One of the people who applied to use mine was number 300 on the local allotment waiting list!

Hope that helps some.

Poo

Poosmate

Oh! I forgot to add, I'm in South Staffs. I've decided to do a leaflet drop in my own road first to see if I get any takers. At least if they need to take a break or a call of nature they don't have far to go home. The grower only has access to the garden, not the house.

The landowner in return gets their garden tended to and a proportion of the produce when harvested. Yay! Win win situation!

Hope that helps some more.

Poo

hhhonlyfan

forgot to ask people on here did someone say there is a facebook group for us dribblers?

jo70mo

NLID something else you can do is stack a couple of used tyres together and paint the outside (or leave them black) and fill with soil/compost as planters. only thing is as they have no base its less easy to move their position once they are full.
mambury I think had a link about how to make newspaper pots. will have a search for it later.
Jo x
edit it was 2cats with the paper pots and here is the link. haven't watched it myself yet.

jo70mo

HHH the facebook group is here if the link works.
Jo x

MummyandPaige

Morning all!

Poosmate - I have looked at the landshare thing, it looks great, win win. Fingers crossed for the whip round at work!

jo70mo wrote: »

it all feels a bit relentless here at the moment but will ease off (I hope) after the weekend. DH seems to be coming down with the sinus thing and is staying late at scjhool every night to give 6th formers time to use equipment to finish their course work in time for friday and then him coming home and us working hard on getting my mums granny flat ready to move into on friday night plus very active kids trying to help out at every opportunity!!
Dh about to go and put curtain rails up as we speak.
Jo x

Come Friday night, you can sit down with a bottle of plonk and breathe! Hope you manage to get everything done in time, too far away to help, sorry

nolongerindenial wrote: »

im half thinking of trying to grow my own veggies, but im not sure if I have the capability to do it lol.

I have a garden, but its flagged - can I use pots to grow things in? and if so what can I grow and is it cheap to get started??

Old buckets and tatoes are a fav, come harvest time, you just tip the bucket up! I have a lovely garden, small but nice, only trouble is, in a rented house, they like to have their gardens hassle free for the next tennant, so digging a veg patch is a no (did it anyway for my leeks and onions, shhhhh), but everything else is in pots. Wash out bean tins and use them for salad leaves or peppers, home grown chillis, if you can get hold of some scotch bonnet seeds, they will grow on your windowsill and my god do they pack a punch! You will get chillis within 6 months and if you use more than half in a dish for 4, your ears will hurt eating it! I have a blueberry bush and a grape bush in large pots, tomatoes in growbags and am going to find something to put my courgettes in at some point If you can't get hold of buckets, then raid the house (or poundland) for plastic storage boxes, drill a hole in the bottom for drainage and paint it if you like, works just as well.

Errands to run and books to list today, plus a house to tidy and a poorly baby Think I am going to look at cheap holidays to cheer me up and if I find anything around the £50 marker book it :rotfl:

jo70mo

morning MandP your gardening sounds fantastic!
hope baby feels better soon poor thing. have you been awake all night?
good luck in finding a £50 holiday!!!
Jo x

dillidalli

Morning All!
Big hugs to all seems like some dribblers are going through the mill.
Hope everyone man, woman, child, and pets are on the road to getting better.

Saucy – sorry about puppy x

Nixi – DS is a brave little soldier I just hope that he is on the mend, hospitals are so big and scary when you are little.


PaulaB – belated birthday wishes for DS, and well done on the WW. Excellent!:T

Munchki – hugs I hope that you are okay. We all have our moments, just hope that it gets better as always x

Amber – Cleggy and Cammy seem to be the best comedy double act ever. I can’t take either one seriously. I was hoping during the press conference that it might turn into fisticuffs and end with Cleggy locking Cammy out of number 10 and staging a sit in. One can only dream. Yep, I reckon another election will be called too.

Elly – so glad that you are settling in well to the new house. So glad that the big stress of it all is pretty much done! Good stuff.

Hales – waves hello

As for me, face is loads better just the burn around my mouth is doing my head in the skin is sooo tight and sore, but it just feels like a cold sore. The elemis sunblock arrived yesterday. Yay! So, slathered loads of that on my face this morning, I do feel like a clown though. I am not a big fan of make up and I feel like I am wearing a mask of MAC at the mo. Can’t wait for the colour to literally comeback to my cheeks.

Late finish last night, I am literally dying for my OH to go out as it means that I can get some work done. I have a to-do list formulating already. Designed some invites but I feel like an utter twonk as I didn’t ask for a deposit. I sent samples too! Eek… so I will contact client around midday to find out what the feedback is.
I don’t know why – I always feel so weird taking money for what I do. Maybe, because I love it so much I get so excited about making stuff that I forget to put my business hat on. Silly me!

Other than that just counting my blessings and smiling this morning; I have a lot to be grateful for.

[FONT=&quot]Best to all have a happy money making day. I will be back in a while time to get cracking with my to-do list. My big fat to-do list. [/FONT]