Botanical blunderings on a budget - good life starts here.

chevalier

thank you pippi you have just reminded me that i have a parcel to send to France

starnac

Pippilongstocking wrote: »

The seeds might do fine depends what type you bought, give it a go or u them in salads and they are great in bread etc yummy!

might have to try them in bread mmmmmmm. not sure what type we bought that was ages ago . DH loves cheese and onion bread so I'll have to make him some using seeds. Thanks for that

Uniscots97

morning all, how is everyone? Lost one of my potato plants. It went yellow (potatoes had rotted away), so hoping I won't lose the other two. Tomatoes coming along well as are my chillis (when is the best time to pick them? Most are about 3-4 cm long now and green). Onions coming along nicely. How did those I sent them to get on with theirs?

redsquirrel80

First batch of ginger beer (with light brown sugar) is really nice.. if a little explosive! Will be able to report back on new batch in a couple of weeks

Been daydreaming about smallholdings today and came across some lovely sunny pictures of your part of the world Pippi! http://www.ruralscene.co.uk/look/proplist.asp?tprtlID=2 (near the bottom of the page).. how lovely is that!

Pippilongstocking

Red very nice indeed! And, cheap, shame the weather is so pants atm. Drizzly and grey here, supposed to get upto 15 degrees but somehow I can't see it - pah. Ginger beer is one of my favs

Chev glad I reminded you! Starnac in bread would be lovely, Uni, I'd leave them until they change colour, but it depends on what you're growing............shame about the potatoes.

My onions look pathetic, sulking in the bad weather!

Poor visitors having this type of weather, yuk! They all seem happy enough and we've been blethering away like loonies

In t'office today for a bit of work on puter and in polytunnels
Need check banks and amass money for paying rent
Phone metal merchant in local village re polytunnel
Work on web stuff a bit
Pop into charity shop with stuff for them from the recycling place
Find a 'recipe' to make snakes from recycled old stripy socks for the local show (we're doing this as a kids event on the recycling charity stand)
Look at latest internal vacancies
Copy photos (10,000+) and docs from cd found when tidying (YAY) to external hard drive
Garden gate blew off, I'm not joking, so I need to mend that but not in the drizzle
Reduced bits out for a picnicy tea
Beetroot boiled and skinned and ready for either freezing or pickling - OH prefers freezing, I prefer non - I'll do both
Water polytunnel flowers at work

Dunno what else, hope you're all good today

Cheery_Daff

I am NOT NOT NOT NOT going to look at nice pictures of nice scenery and nice gardens NO!! I will NOT! Pah! I'll just get all jealous and cross that I don't live there!

:rotfl: :rotfl: :rotfl:

Karmacat

Yeah, I started doing that, and then changed my mind :rotfl: there's a property there near Skipton, and I **like** Skipton.

Pippi .... your gate blew off? :eek::eek::eek:

Okay, I read your blog about why you live there, and I get it, I really do ... but .... your gate blew off :eek::eek::eek:_pale__pale__pale_

:rotfl: Just think of the wonderful gardening adventures you're going to have in the future without that wind!

redsquirrel80

Sorry, no, don't look, far too lovely, and yes I am now incredibly jealous.. I won't even put up the link with the really cheap ones in Bulgaria etc

Had to re-read list as thought for a minute you were planning to cook snakes.. :eek: :rotfl:

MatyMoo

Waves to Pippi :hello: and Keiss :hello: (Assuming she has arrived )

If it is any consolation we have had yukky weather today.No rain, just overcast with a nip in the air.

Your lists tire me out!

I bought a plant when I was visiting gardens with my sister, cost me a whole 50p, and left it in it's pot in the garden (throwing water at it occasionally) and I realised I had lost it Had an amble around the garden yesterday, it's not that big honest, and my lovely neighbour who cuts my grass had planted it for me :T It's a cream helibore by the way

Cheery_Daff

how lovely maty!:T :T :T

<waves up north>xxx