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

Cheery_Daff

Yay, a new stripey diary! :j :j :j :j :j



Have missed your day to day ramblings :rotfl: :rotfl:

Just shut myself in the attic for a couple of hours writing - pah! Best go and get on with it though, don't want to be annoyed cos I'm missing the fun AND frustrated cos I didn't do any work :rotfl:

(not that there *is* any fun going on downstairs (I don't think) but you know what I mean!) :rotfl:

Pippilongstocking

You'll be the only one! Thank you.........

Mouse bites hope it goes well. x

Karmacat

Hiya! Happy shiny new diary!

I'm glad you've started this new one Its a real journey when you summarise it like that in the first post, isn't it! And Lula, you've got some good tips there, the cloche and the greenhouse - I'd *never* have thought of the greenhouse, how clever!

Pippi, what fruit are you planning to grow? I'm doing a garden plan at the moment, with a book about arthritis in one hand and another about fruit lodged under the computer, while I type one handed This is going to be a great ride!

Pippilongstocking

Karmacat wrote: »

Hiya! Happy shiny new diary!

I'm glad you've started this new one Its a real journey when you summarise it like that in the first post, isn't it! And Lula, you've got some good tips there, the cloche and the greenhouse - I'd *never* have thought of the greenhouse, how clever!

Pippi, what fruit are you planning to grow? I'm doing a garden plan at the moment, with a book about arthritis in one hand and another about fruit lodged under the computer, while I type one handed This is going to be a great ride!

I'm going to enjoy getting the thesis written (removing that hangover from my life) and then trying to acheive the 'good life' I've always wanted - never really before believed we could do it - but I'm so going to try.

The cloche tip is great - isn't it - I love mse - the greenhouse intregues me too!

Fruit - um - outdoors I'm going to try (and I hasten to add *try*) rasps, blackcurrants, alpine strawbs and rhubarb - the only one I know that *will* grow outside here is rhubarb - loves this climate.

Problem here - wind comes when the flowers are on the plant - well actually wind comes anytime tbh - which ruins any chance of fruit. I don't think I've the ripening time for apples and pears - although we've two pears in tubs at OH's house in central scotland. Might move them up? Put them under cover?

Indoors (if I get a tunnel up) - probably strawberries, raspberries and blackcurrants - (dont want to ruin everything outdoors if it doesn't work). I've aslo a morello cherry in a tub - which has fruited under cover before - um apart from that non-veg fruits (ie not tomatoes chillis etc)

What about you?Did you get the blueberries? I should think of those I love them and they grow here - I'd like a bramble - but not possible without a tunnel - oh um wait a minute if I can get it sorted we *might* have a tunnel - so maybe blueberries and brambles too - plum ? possibly a plum if I can get some cover and find a big enough pot................

Karmacat

My plans .... gulp ... .... of the existing plants, lavender, rosemary, an unknown berry plant (!) and some strawberries, plus your massive sage plant (and I *haven't* forgotten about the sedge - is it still okay to send it now that the snow has come?). I have a few other herbs in pots - mint, chives, oregano (tho I think that will have died).

The plan:
- 3 rhodendrons to go, I'm keeping a little one, and instead, because the soil is probably right for them, half a dozen cranberries and blueberries. I have 2 already, on a Tesco deal.
- there's a rose - you can eat rose petals, I've had rose petal jam in Turkey!
- when I've pruned the sickly buddleias and got rid of the mahoosive sedge on the south facing fence, I'll be putting espaliers in - not apple, since I can probably beg apples from next door's even more mahoosive tree - but cherries, and I'm not sure yet what - pears? plums?
- I do plan to grow fresh greens and edible flowers - radishes, spring onions, chili, cress, pea shoots, winter savory, beetroot, lettuce, tree onions (from a cousin's garden), and garlic. I bought a chili today from Sainsbo, and hopefully I can get the seeds from it, like I remember you writing on your blog .....
- I've brought with me some fennel - I'll be planting that, I think, unless I find out that the soil here is wrong for it.
- flowers/plants that I love, and have to have: sedum, scabious, grape hyacinths, lambs tongue, forget me not.
- and I want to grow some comfrey, so I can make my own fertiliser oh, and I have to buy a bay plant from somewhere.

Sorry for the near-hijack - you did ask :D:D

Pippilongstocking

Moved the hens today - indoors to the byre - sold 1 doz eggs and my edit grid sheet (free online tool) https://www.editgrid.com/ for my shiny new 'on the way to the goodlife' has been started link here - today I earned £2 - I'm going to add it all up - find out if we can manage!

Reduced shopping consisted of a loaf of bread 25p, pot of cream 30p and not much else - well it was a saturday after all................

Karmacat

I am *definitely* well enough now to get out into the garden, so if it still is okay to send it, I *can* send it. Do me a favour and pm me your address again tho how embarrassing...

Blueberries would probably do really well by you - when I crossed the Canada-US border south of Toronto, the Americans all got out and were picking wild ones - and they get *harsh* winters round there.

Pippilongstocking

We replied at diff time

Karmacat wrote: »

My plans .... gulp ... .... of the existing plants, lavender, rosemary, an unknown berry plant (!) and some strawberries, plus your massive sage plant (and I *haven't* forgotten about the sedge - is it still okay to send it now that the snow has come?). I have a few other herbs in pots - mint, chives, oregano (tho I think that will have died).

a lot going on there!!!

The plan:
- 3 rhodendrons to go, I'm keeping a little one, and instead, because the soil is probably right for them, half a dozen cranberries and blueberries. I have 2 already, on a Tesco deal.

:jbrilliant!
- there's a rose - you can eat rose petals, I've had rose petal jam in Turkey!
um and make jelly - and ice cream etc - very wonderful to make into delightful treaty thing

- when I've pruned the sickly buddleias and got rid of the mahoosive sedge on the south facing fence, I'll be putting espaliers in - not apple, since I can probably beg apples from next door's even more mahoosive tree - but cherries, and I'm not sure yet what - pears? plums?

exciting

- I do plan to grow fresh greens and edible flowers - radishes, spring onions, chili, cress, pea shoots, winter savory, beetroot, lettuce, tree onions (from a cousin's garden), and garlic. I bought a chili today from Sainsbo, and hopefully I can get the seeds from it, like I remember you writing on your blog .....

yup you canvery easily from home saved seed or I've alot which you can have a few of

- I've brought with me some fennel - I'll be planting that, I think, unless I find out that the soil here is wrong for it.

fennel pretty tough - bulb or herb?

- flowers/plants that I love, and have to have: sedum, scabious, grape hyacinths, lambs tongue, forget me not.


- and I want to grow some comfrey, so I can make my own fertiliser oh, and I have to buy a bay plant from somewhere.

Sorry for the near-hijack - you did ask :D:D

Never a hijack when we talk about anything - definitely not if gardening - barely get anyone to talk to me about plant/garden here - only when I've got them locked in a classroom - the people not the plants!!!

You've great plans....:)

Lemon_Tree

see you'll be filling up your poly tunnel before you know about it!

glad to see you back here. Can't wait to experience the next episode of the stripey life.

been into town today, finishing the chrissy shopping and taking 'architectual' photo's.

Pippilongstocking

Lemon_Tree wrote: »

see you'll be filling up your poly tunnel before you know about it!

glad to see you back here. Can't wait to experience the next episode of the stripey life.

been into town today, finishing the chrissy shopping and taking 'architectual' photo's.

Mine sucked to be honest - good luck! Polytunnel - its still down a very snowy track inaccessible - and in bits - hope we'll get it moved and then yay we can put it up and fill it!

I hope the shopping went ok - well done on getting it finished - its my year off - which I reminded OH

As the evil ex-husband is stealing (um sorry) *having* the kids for xmas this year - I'm un-mum'd - so I don't '*do*' xmas - and get a 'house gift' instead - no presents, no stockings - nothing.

I'll be doing the dinner - which is lurking in the freezer/cupboards but outwith that - I'm steering clear. Guess its how I cope.

Well done on getting yours done - maybe by the end of this diary - I'll be free of my project and I will have *written* my thesis - :rotfl: you gotta laugh *finish*

How was work - how I missed you all - OK only 24 hours ...............but in mse and with you guys - thats a lifetime!