Daydream thread continues.....

Davesnave

Just thought of something else.....When we were selling plants, we sometimes saw a couple of ladies who had an entirely different business model.

These two would grow some interesting annuals themselves, but they also bought-in plug plants from wholesalers. By whichever route, these plants would end up in black cell trays, priced cheaply at, say, 70p each or 5 for £3.....that sort of thing. They simply cut out the cells as they sold them.

When I said that this looked like a good system, because they did good business, one of them replied, "Yes, and we're all finished by the school summer holidays, so nothing to look after for the rest of the year!" :cool:

lostinrates

Our wineberry has fruited. Its lovely, but not better than rasberries.

Davesnave

RESULT!!! :beer:

We've been working all day with the owner of next door and her family to 'tidy up' the hedges, but it ended-up as a general clearance of the garden and the removal of a 15' high leylandii hedge which faced onto our field. This means Pete can finish the fencing properly now, as the old fence was somewhere inside those leylandii. It also means no more weed seeds blowing straight into our newly created border. :T

Not only that, but next door's owner will go halves on the cost of the fencing.

As you don't get conifers with 10" trunks out with a wheelbarrow, another family member turned up with a telehandler, so they were tied to that and lifted out as they were chainsawed off....all ten of them.

So, now we have a nice source of free firewood lined up in the rough bit of the bottom field. All I need to do is chainsaw off the branches in a month or so.....:D I think we'll probably have quite a few bonfires too!

Two smashing kids were part of the working party. The 8 year old had his own brushcutter and the 6 year old did hours of raking-up, all without complaint. They bring 'em up well around here! :rotfl:

The kids who actually live next door aren't so lucky, but we won't go there.

rhiwfield

Well done Dave!

Not only for the result but for the buzz of a work party across all ages getting it done (cue barn raising from Witness )

Lir, never tried a wineberry

Late summer now, flowers but no beans on the runners. Asparagus only just reaching full growth. Bit of a washout this year, wonder if summers are going to be like this from now on?

Davesnave

rhiwfield wrote: »

Well done Dave!

Not only for the result but for the buzz of a work party across all ages getting it done (cue barn raising from Witness )

Bit of a washout this year, wonder if summers are going to be like this from now on?

I hope they fixed that barn to the ground at some time!:rotfl: Yes, it was a bit like that, but we couldn't hear any stirring music and the women got to use the power tools too!

I hope all summers won't be like this, or I shall be doing more inside the polytunnel than I intended. Most of our stuff has grown, but it's been so late the season's compressed, which makes harvesting and preserving more pressured.

Those sharks fin melons (fig leaved gourds) are going great guns, though! I read that they keep for up to two years. No pressure there!

Lotus-eater

Davesnave wrote: »

Those sharks fin melons (fig leaved gourds) are going great guns, though! I read that they keep for up to two years. No pressure there!

The last couple of weeks I've been looking at mine in disbelief every day, as they seem to have grown overnight.
I can't keep up with where it is anymore! Tendrils are popping up everywhere, they disappear for 3 metres, then suddenly pop up at the end of something!
I've no idea how many melons are forming, I've seen 2, but there could be another dozen in there for all I know. I hope they have time to mature, they seem very small.
This must be good weather for squash, as my normal ones are going a bit bonkers as well.

Davesnave

Lotus-eater wrote: »

This must be good weather for squash, as my normal ones are going a bit bonkers as well.

My ordinary squash aren't doing terribly well. They're a bit exposed, perhaps. They've been so slow, I've double planted so that I can take some of the weaker ones out later on.

Must have at least 6 sharks around 8" across, and one bigger, but like you, no clear idea where one ends and another begins!

I forgot to mention..... When I went to let the hens out this morning, I heard a very inexpert crowing sound coming from the little hen house where our three babies are. I have not really made friends with these birds, knowing what I may have to do with at least one of them.

alfie_1

hi all, i did write last night but it somehow deleted itself and i was too kernacked to write it again !!.........
basically son has borrowed van from weds eve till sat am.
so i got his mountain bike out,have not ridden a bike for yearssssssssss... nearly went sailing when i had wrong gear :eek:, set off for fields [6 miles], working out gears as i went didnt realise gradients en route , let van do that..:o didnt help wearing a coat !,didnt help that saddle was not built for my butttt....:eek: made it there in 40 minutes...walking like john wayne, drank half a gallon of water, P'd for england then later had the daunting return journey home. went 100yds, decided against it and scrounged a lift home.
after cuppa, biskwit..set off walking into lym for shopping 2 miles [bike still at fields] got 300 yds down pavementless road to turn round and see bimble sneeking along behind me.....:( so had to walk BACK to put him indoors.... then set off again. got half way then got a lift. got shopping and a lift home.....
to say i was kernacked is an understatement.....:D my butttt belonged to someone else last night !!:D

moral of the story.?? next time darling son asks for van i am going to say ...NO :rotfl::rotfl:

rhiwfield

Alf, was going to do a link to a youtube of women cycling but it seemed a bit naughty so didnt

I'm told that too much cycling can inhibit male fertility so not quite sure who the saddles are designed for!

DW having knee troubles again, NOT good news

Sobering time researching a WWI soldier, somehow when you see the battle honours like Ypres, you just want to shudder.

Anyhow, must have had over an inch of rain here today, depressing.

Davesnave

A quiet day in the polytunnel after yesterday's exertions.

We're trying to level the floor at the end we're not yet fully using. Getting there, but need to import more soil from the big heap.

Village show in two weeks. What will we have to exhibit, I wonder?

Sorry to hear about sore bums & knees. I have nothing to grumble about, but feel a bit washed-out. Maybe it's just over-use of wellies.....