My name is Ladyhawk, and I have a problem

Chimera

ERICS_MUM wrote: »

Has anyone ever foraged for mushrooms ?? :eek::eek:


Linda

Yes.. but with a book, and still only got the really obvious ones!! Mushroom picking scares me!!

invisiblecabbage

Zazen999 wrote: »

You guys have NO idea.

I have a courtyard, a garden, an allotment. Plus I work at 5 schools to give them organic veggie gardens.

At a meeting of one of the schools yesterday they were panicking because of all the veg that is growing and the thought that they would never eat it all. This school has 70 people associated with it.

The amount of veg in their greenhouse and kitchen garden is nowhere near - not a smidgen close - to the amount of veg that I have in my courtyard, garden and lottie. The courtyard holds a greenhouse which is full 365 days of the year.

I have no idea where I am going to put it all; but that's half the fun.

To think that the seeds that have been sown for all 5 schools [and will feed about 350 people for a significant portion of the summer] all came from my personal collection and didn't even make a dent in it - leads me to believe that I have a seed problem. A big one!!!

So to counter that - of course - I'm sowing more today.

Onward and upward as they say.

WOW:T:T I vote Zazan999 for chairperson

elantan

i wonder if there is a name for this compulsion ... i have it also ... far far too much here now ... and yet i keep thinking i could plant some more seeds ... who am i kidding

katholicos

elantan wrote: »

i wonder if there is a name for this compulsion ... i have it also ... far far too much here now ... and yet i keep thinking i could plant some more seeds ... who am i kidding

I know what you mean.

My birthday is next week and i'm thinking 'hmm, maybe just one more raised bed will fit in the garden if i get some birthday money!'.

Hope you are doing okay after the break-in.

ginnyknit

Have now taken to wandering round the house looking for things to plant these seedlings in - came up trumps with an old plastic baby bath, now just another 15(ish) tubs and Im ok!

TravellingAbuela

ERICS_MUM wrote: »

Has anyone ever foraged for mushrooms ?? :eek::eek:


Linda

I am confident at foraging for berries but mushrooms :eek::eek: that's a different matter!

Kay_Peel

Alleluia! Alleluia. :j

DD is a nurse on an acute ward of a hospital and was casting around for something interesting to engage recovering patients. She 'acquired' a small plot of land within the hospital grounds and then rang me to ask whether I had any spare salady-herby-flowery-veggie plants or seeds.

Have I got any plants or seeds? :cool: Of course, I've got plants and seeds, I replied - does the queen wear a hat, or what?!

And what about compost, she asked? Er.... and some pots and tubs and hand-tools and ...... and .... etc etc

She's just driven off with a car full and to tell the truth I'm glad to see the back of them. The borders are stuffed and I've still got more seedlings and young plants to squeeze in there somewhere.

So Alleluia! :T for the time being.

Ladyhawk

Well done Kay for actually managing to get rid of some of your plants etc.

I have promised one of my tomato plants to a colleague... so that's one less that I need to find a spot for! I might give her a courgette as well...

Zazen999

Chimera wrote: »

Really want to do elderflower champagne and sloe gin this year!

There are about 4 elders just by one of the greenhouses at one of my schools; so today I nipped off 10 'florets' and tonight they are in a fermenting container to make my elderflower fizz. First batch of the season.

I left them in the car for a couple of hours and came back to a lovely sweet smelling car; how I LOVE elderflower!

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I too suffer from this complaint.., and shops know it and put out all their plants when they see me coming. I have a small back yard (full), windowsills (full) and a smallish front garden (not full). Also loads of pots of things and chitting potatoes all of which I was quietly panicking about how i'd plant them outside and still be able to exit the house without going into hovver mode.

Then I was saved. I asked to be put on an allotment list 6 months ago and by some miracle, I was given a key yesterday.

So now I just have to find the time to clear and plant it. They've given it to me for free for a year cause its in a bit of a state but I'm very lucky, the neighbouring allotment holder has lent me some weapons to clear the plot with so I may yet get my potatoes in.

I bought a tayberry bush.., gorgeous fruit.., that's now in the front garden. It may fruit this year cause i went the whole hog and bought a bigger one. Much to my delight there is a blackberry bush at the bottom of my allotment so I'll be dragging that back from its present attempt to escape from the allotment via the wire fence tomorrow lol.

I don't care how much work it takes (I was clearing by street light tonite lolol).., just glad to have more ground space lol.