Daydream thread continues.....

lucielle

Love the bottom photo!!!!!!
L

Davesnave

lucielle wrote: »

Love the bottom photo!!!!!!
L

Missed that! :eek: Anyway, I wouldn't dare sit on a photocopier, considering what I weigh these days......:rotfl:

Being serious, I reckon alfie knows a bit about photography to get one like that. There's no blurring. I can't even get a decent shot of Ozzie the coc kerel to show here!

Murk and mizzle this morning. Maybe a bit more of that 'papery workery' for me too. However, the mildness is doing wonders for seedlings in the conservatory, where I like to toughen them up, if I dare risk it. Toms and peppers coming along fine ATM.

lostinrates

Urgh, up all night with cat who seems to have eaten something she should not have done. I have a headache as a result, and feel much like today looks!

rozeepozee

Hi, does anyone have any suggestions on where we begin with our blank canvas of a garden? I'm feeling a little overwhelmed by the hugeness of our task.

With all the building work that will be going on, I'm not ambitious about growing anything this year. I think it's likely to get trampled or just in the way. It's been suggested that the south facing field will be difficult to grow in as that's the way the wind comes in (and we're on a hill). The previous owner had the veggie patch in the north facing side of the house which is protected by the house and some fences.

We have loads of leaves in the dingle dell. Should we be "harvesting" these for compost? Our efforts at gardening in the city resulted in a lot of expense in intial outlay and not a lot of return in crop, apart from successed with salad veggies which we grew in pots and in baths salvaged from a hotel that was being turned into flats. Surely veggie gardening should be as cheap as possible? My OH doesn't help. It's a shame he hasn't acquired his mum's skills, she seems to run her allotment on a shoestring. I think a telephone call to MIL is in order, but I'd love to hear what you guys would do.

I feel like such a city bumpkin

Lotus-eater

You can set up a leaf compost bin, which in a years or so's time, will produce nice soil conditioner for your beds.

The north facing will be fine as long as it gets the sun at the time of year you want to grow and it's good to have wind protection for veggies.
Mine is on a north facing garden and it's awkward in the winter, as only the very bottom of the garden gets the sun then. But stuff still does grow.

lostinrates

Do you have a side of the house that will be having no work rozee? My architect was frustrated even about my small whire border. If we can get the single sotry 'wing' done, that bit of garden will be the first. Can do properly after summer, to plant next year. Have to say, the hold ups on the bits i can do...like gardening, are one of the most frustrating bits of wreck buying and living!

rozeepozee

lostinrates wrote: »

Do you have a side of the house that will be having no work rozee? My architect was frustrated even about my small whire border. If we can get the single sotry 'wing' done, that bit of garden will be the first. Can do properly after summer, to plant next year. Have to say, the hold ups on the bits i can do...like gardening, are one of the most frustrating bits of wreck buying and living!

No, the roof's coming off and being raised, so I think they're gonna need access from all sides. However, the North facing side is the one which will have the least work (there will be minor extensions and additions to the other three sides) and where the static is going to be temporarily sited, so we'll probably stick some raised beds in there and just grow some herbs and salad veggies on a trial basis. There's also a greenhouse in the back (Est facing garden which benefits from the sun during the first part of the day and probably afternoon, so I'll try and salvage that. It's a bit sorry for itself but I think all the panes of glass are there somewhere, they've just fallen out.

Itismehonest

From experience, rozee, resist the temptation to start on anything gardenwise for a while.
You will be amazed (or appalled) at where the builders & their machines end up going.
Just because there doesn't seem any logical reason why they should go anywhere near SpotX doesn't mean they won't.

By the time trenches are dug,
muddy digger/dumper tracks are everywhere,
there are piles of materials which have come out of the existing building,
pile of materials waiting to be used in the new work,
somewhere the machinery will be parked overnight,
somewhere that the cement mixer is going to be 'housed' (unless of course you're having readymix & that will have to get as close as possible to where it's needed or you'll need an mini army of guys with barrows moving it while others spread it out),
the only spot left can end up being the place where the guys sit & eat their sandwiches

You need to look on the whole place as one big building site until you can know for sure how things can be tackled logistically & the builders have got themselves something like organised.

lostinrates

Alfie...yeah.....i think we better have another girl, else we will only have two geese left i think! They are all chummy then launch into each other with horrific violence!
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Tweed died.....just drifted off to sleep today after a nice rice breakfast. Perfect end.

Now, chicken keepers.....talkmto me about crops. These batts have overfull hard crops. They are being fed ex batt pellets and show no interst in oyseter shell. I think i will have to manually empty their crops tomorrow morning, because i cannot see how they will survive otherwise. They were big when they came, but are getting no smaller, perhaps even bigger! And really hard feeling. Never had this before!

RAS

Davesnave wrote: »

However, the mildness is doing wonders for seedlings in the conservatory, where I like to toughen them up, if I dare risk it. Toms and peppers coming along fine ATM.

Dave

My neighbour is back and I got an envelope through the door late Saturday night. Phew.

Sharks will be sent tonight.

Anyone else having trouble loading MSE?