Botanical blunderings on a budget - good life starts here.

troglodyte

:j:j:jWow congrats Pippi! Sounds like the perfect combination for the new lifestyle and I'm so pleased thy realised you are the ideal person for the job, great news! :j:j:j

Pippilongstocking

Morning all just back from checking work tunnels, watering and did a wee shop



Kettle on.

Thanks troglodyte I hope so!

Lula-Hula

G'morning Pippi,

:j Congratulations :j

on the new jobby - it sounds perfect for you & you will be fab at it
xx

Keiss_21

Morning, chilly here, but lovely and sunny...might venture out into the garden for a bit more tidying up later

Have a great weekend everyone...an extra hour tonight!!

Pippilongstocking

Lula thank you me dear, brilliant colours there!

Keiss, I'm attacking more laundry whilst I can

Reduced veg box looks like this
Carrots 30p
Parsnips 45p
Green beans 69p
Cauli x2 55p
Peppers (not reduced) 99p
Neep 39p

Got leeks,

Lula-Hula

I saw your leeks on the bloggy - they look wonderful & mine are now very embarassed, so hopefully that will give them a bit of encouragement to grow

teapot2

Many congrats on getting the job - sounds ideal for what you want to do. Gives you some security of income for a while and leaves time to do other things :j:j

fedupandskint

Well done Pipster! You will be a Pipster deluxe with all that you're planning!

Hope it all goes well for you and congrats sent northwards to you.

This weekend I'll be pickling pears (1kg = £1) into serveral jars for Christmas presents, baking the 2nd Christmas cake and the pickling 500g damsons too and maybe making some jam with the other 500g as I think making some damson cheese might be a bit of a faff. I'll have a think about it today and decide tomorrow.

Tomorrow I'll be planting out all my bargainous reduced winter bedding plants to cheer the place up in the spring and reduced massively perennial shrubs and finally planting bulbs for presents and for spring. Fingers crossed its fine tomorrow!

Pippilongstocking

Thanks Lula - my leeks aren't that impressive, more like drips - although I got about 4kg of them for 50p worth of seeds so this spend £1 in the garden growing veg and you'll save £9 is actually true!

Teapot - thank you - you're right a nice balance just need to keep it that way - I don't want to take on too much - fingers crossed.

sparkles - how true eh, I've now doubled what I've ever earnt before in my life! How true life chucks things at you you just don't expect eh? I'd not got that job last year, and did more work for the charity and thankfully I was the lucky one this year!

Well done on you barganous pickling and good luck with the planting.

Full of cheesy dreams (ham and phily (stripey filly) cheese) dipped in a free free-range egg and fried - yum yum!

Thinking of budgets etc I've got a start date (mid november) - if I bill properly I'll have college money in November and if I'm canny I'll have my first proper womble wage in Dec too.



Ebaying the now to bolster Novembers crappy wage up a bit. Free listing

Got to tidy up other bits of the homestead first though.

been invited out to tea tonight (a lebonese dinner at a local hotel) for my pals birthday which is nice.

Need a walk too

sold 3 plants on ebay (and I've got them aside and ready to get packed on monday - they should get to their new homes on Tuesday. I never post plants over a weekend, poor things would be very bored.

Cheery_Daff

Mmmm cheesy dreams I'm having a cheesy omelette - not quite the same!

Been out in the garden this morning. Was doing too much thinking about it, trying to please too many other people who'd given me advice, and was getting rather overwhelmed and not knowing what *I* actually wanted, and not being able to do anything because everything else needed doing first :rotfl:

So this morning I went out the new front door :T :T, picked the last of the green tomatoes before they all get eaten (am I best trying to ripen them with another tomato/banana, or doing something with them green?? been sticking all the others in the freezer!). Also cut another big load of sage to dry (just put the last dried lot in jars last week, very exciting! :T), and cut down the last of the straggly lemon balm and rose. Going to dig up the rose and the magnolia (bit sad, but it's trapped in a small corner anyway and only flowers about 2 weeks a year and is right in the way of my new fence!

Then need to get the darn thing put up, and decide whether hedge thing is going to be willow or hazel... I think willow, someone else keeps trying to persuade me hazel, someone else telling me I need to dig a giant 2 foot by 1 foot trench and fill it with compost and a sprinkler pipe or the entire hedge is going to die (seems a little overkill for my 6 foot long bit of patio screening! :rotfl: :rotfl:)

Am a bit overwhelmed so might just go and sit out there with a cuppa and do *something* and ignore everyone else

(sorry, big long waffly post, but it *is* about gardens :rotfl: :rotfl: :rotfl:)