"Your life is an occasion. Rise to it"

rtandon27

Ok - a huge funny for you!

My neighbour's son - trying to be helpful - mowed our front lawn while we were at work last week!

I'd asked OH not to do it so that I could collect the so called weeds for salads and teas! We do not use any herbacides or pesticeds and are not attached to any of our neighbours lawns so it's a perfect little patch.

The boy also took down my 3 foot nettle that was just about to flower that had been 'cultivated' (read as ignored) so the butterflies will now abandon me - boo hoo! - OH has been warned for months not to take it down - :rotfl:

Oh the improprieties of living in a neighbourhood! - Just glad my back garden is under lock and key cause it would not be up to the right standards!

Karmacat

Oh good grief :eek: RT, what can you say to that! A certain amount of gentle education is called for next year, I think. But you can only applaud neighbourliness :rotfl:

Short break. Trying to keep going :j

Pippilongstocking

Karmacat wrote: »

My word. I was just in the garden working on a corner I've hardly touched - trying to get rid of annual weeds before they seed, while leaving the nettles for the butterflies - very difficult to unwind convolvulus from nettles :eek:

And you know, I'm green - I try to do all of the right things, I know what we should be doing .... and yet, a part of me never really believed it.

Anyway, I realised I was right by this enormous blackcurrant plant, and I finally *get* the economics of gardening for food. I've always thought, but you have to buy so much, there can't be that much produce to be got, it must be twice as expensive as the shops.

Well, I ended up picking about half of the fruit from that plant - some is too ripe, some is too covered in weeds to get to and I was reaching the end of my tolerance for the sun - and I have a couple of the little punnets that go for £2 in the supermarkets, I'm sure. And thats without any care at all, or even any picking of last year's fruit - no watering, no pruning, no frost or snow protection. If I'd taken care of how I picked it, it would easily have given me £10 of fruit, I'm sure. I'm officially converted

:j:j:j:j:j:j:j

YAY

Hey up me duck - well done you on the nettle untwangling

Sorry but I did laugh at the post from RT25 - poor thing (())

Karmacat

She meant us to laugh, Pippi, after all

I've done my good deed for the day, and also got loads of paperwork out of the way by scanning it, or even by chucking it *without* scanning it

Currently noshing a second lunch and I'm desperate to have a cup of coffee before its officially "too late to let me sleep tonight" time and I'm on here while noshing and digesting :j

Plus, serious actual research on thetrainline and google maps trying to reduce journey time for our holidays on Saturday - for my mum, there's the potential of an hour less each way :j

Lula-Hula

Good afternoon Karma,

great to hear that you're bearing fruit. Well, not you personally - that would be rather unsusual :rotfl:.

Oops just being dragged off to the library with DD, will pop back later ...
xx

redsquirrel80

Ooh that reminds me - I've been trying to control what I thought was a rather unruly wild rose in the garden - it flowered a while back and now appears to have blackberries on it.. oops :rotfl:

Karmacat

Oops indeed! And hello Lula!

I was dragged off too - to the recycling tip am now minus two bags of ivy, some timber, a rusty bbq spit, assorted keys and nails, you know the sort of thing ooh, and a massive, poster-sized piece of broken glass has gone too :D:D my sister absolutely *had* to go the tip, and I'm on her way :j now desperate for the water to heat so I can submerge myself :eek:

youareallhelpingme

5 conifers are gone after we finally bought a chainsaw. DH wont let me use it as he said it is too heavy, I think he just wants to play macho :rotfl::rotfl::rotfl:.

But the best thing so far is that hidden in the no-mans land between us and next door - a bully tree - I have no idea of its proper name but they are like mini plums and will either be yellow or red, and we are claiming them as they are delicious .

Lula-Hula

Apologies for being so late back & assume you are now totally immersed . I was distracted by the planting out of some salady stuff & attempts to rig up a new netting cover.

Great work on the tip - very clever of you to strategically house yourself between your sister & the tip .

I've not yet decided on what I think would be best for your plants ... I think someone clever like Pippi is the best person to advise. My gardening is a bit Fling it & Wing it at the moment ie I fling it in, give it a good shower, whisper 'live long & prosper little plant" & then tend to leave it & wing it when it comes to thinning out, pruning etc.

Carrot & leeks still very small but now weeded & watered so hopefully feeling nurtured & encouraged to grow

Karmacat

youareallhelpingme wrote: »

5 conifers are gone after we finally bought a chainsaw. DH wont let me use it as he said it is too heavy, I think he just wants to play macho :rotfl::rotfl::rotfl:.

But the best thing so far is that hidden in the no-mans land between us and next door - a bully tree - I have no idea of its proper name but they are like mini plums and will either be yellow or red, and we are claiming them as they are delicious .

Hope he's got the proper gloves! At my last place, the neighbour nearly cut 3 fingers off with a chainsaw :eek: I've used a hedgetrimmer (my mum bought it a few years ago - she's v ambitious :D:D) thats plenty for me. Good news on the bully tree!

Lula-Hula wrote: »

Apologies for being so late back & assume you are now totally immersed . I was distracted by the planting out of some salady stuff & attempts to rig up a new netting cover.
Yep, I was Planting salady stuff and putting netting up is always a good idea

Great work on the tip - very clever of you to strategically house yourself between your sister & the tip .
I'm psychic like that

I've not yet decided on what I think would be best for your plants ... I think someone clever like Pippi is the best person to advise. My gardening is a bit Fling it & Wing it at the moment ie I fling it in, give it a good shower, whisper 'live long & prosper little plant" & then tend to leave it & wing it when it comes to thinning out, pruning etc.

Carrot & leeks still very small but now weeded & watered so hopefully feeling nurtured & encouraged to grow

A friend of mine always ends her letters and emails with that, Live Long And Prosper :j And there's always IDIC - Infinite Diversity in Infinite Combinations (which doesn't sound *pretty* like LLAP does) but like all of That Programme, is very PC

The plants ... well, I've dillied and dallied so much, they're going to have to take their chances in the pots now! I reckon I'll hide them under things to keep them out of the direct sun.

Just time for a skip around the diaries before I watch 20 mins of Harry Potter 7 ...