Pippi’s pulling up her stripey-socks for the final sprint towards the Good-Life……………

MrsMoo2U

Pippi,

I was just reading an article in this months House Beautiful about a woman who gave up her antiques business in London and bought a house in the countryside. She now runs a B&B but also makes her own chutneys and jams and sells her homegrown produce etc. The article made me think about you and all the things that you do. I was thinking that you could maybe write a piece for that magazine and get them to photograph your house etc. I bet it would go down a treat. Not sure if they pay but it could promote your seeds business etc. Interesting people always get a look in for these magazines.

vl2588

Hey Pippi, just noticed that you have coriander on your list of seeds. I am looking to buy some (plants or seeds but not sure how you would get a plant to Hertfordshire!); are you selling them? Does it go through ebay or something?

Vix

Cheery_Daff

Successful day then Pippi! :j :j :j Well done you! :j :j :j And excellent news on the casual hours contract :T :T

Pippilongstocking

Hey chaps - keiss seeds all done

Cheery very exciting about the casual hours contract to be honest - I'm more excited about the two garden jobs - 65 trees to plant and over 500m of hedge to plant - not that I've 100% got them yet.

Hope you are good

Vl - coriander is simple from seed and I do have seed I'll pm you later plants I post to anywhere in uk normally get there the next day even in lolly boxes!!

Cheri that's a lovely idea -

Kittikins

500m of hedge, phew! I'm tired just reading about it

Keiss_21

Pippilongstocking wrote: »

Hey chaps - keiss seeds all done

Cheery very exciting about the casual hours contract to be honest - I'm more excited about the two garden jobs - 65 trees to plant and over 500m of hedge to plant - not that I've 100% got them yet.

Hope you are good

Vl - coriander is simple from seed and I do have seed I'll pm you later plants I post to anywhere in uk normally get there the next day even in lolly boxes!!

Cheri that's a lovely idea -

Ooh, getting excited now! Need to wash more pots soon....if my shoulder lets me...not sure if DS would like doing them!...there are LOADS! :rotfl:

Gongrats on all the jobs. Wish I was up to being a working gardener again, but with my dicky back, that has been scrubbed permanently. Yup, 500m hedging sounds a lot!! Where are the 65 trees going? Somewhere sheltered I hope!!!

Off to sit in a comfy chair now...everything's sore atm .

DS's birthday tomorrow...18...how did that happen?! Still have to wrap his pressies...may need DH to help .

Night, night all.

La_escocesa

Hiya pippi :hello: hi everyone

Good news about getting the hours you wanted :T Yay. :T

Do you mind if I ask you a v basic question about my spider plant???

I'm not v experienced with plants and just don't seem to be doing this little cutting I got any good. At first I got loads of little black flies flying around it, which I heard was because of over-watering it. ...then I maybe didn't water it enough and now sometimes when I do water it the water just kind of sits on top of the soil for a bit and doesn't even soak in/through to the drainer tray. And the leaves look really dull. Surely this is not difficult How often should I be watering it?! It's on my desk at work and the office is usually 29 deg C (no one seems to be able to fix the air con and the sun shines in so potentially a greenhouse!)... Any ideas?

Also, someone told me that putting used tea leaves on the soil is good for plants! Can this be true?!?! I know tea does me some good so kinda makes sense...:rotfl:

Sending you a big hug from Sheffers :grouphug:

xxx

gallygirl

Pipster - please clear your messages

chevalier

La escocesa I don't know about watering per se, but yes tea and tea leaves were often used to water plants in my house when I was a child....

pippi yeah on the patchwork income. good luck with the gardening jobs
chev

vl2588

Planting a hedge is an awesome thing to do as well, very satifsying :T

Thanks Pippi will look out for it (no rush though!)