Daydream thread continues.....

COOLTRIKERCHICK

Rummer.....

Mr forthgills has a half price sale on cabbage, caulis etc

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If you are finding life gets in the way of the garden ( i know exactly where you are coming from, happens to me alot)

Why dont know concentrate on only or or two of your raised beds? so what little time you might have will be concentrated on a small area...

If I had to pick just one or two veg ... I would have potatoes and runner beans, as there is nothing nicer ( in my opinion) than a plate full of runner beans, new potatoes, with lashings of butter, and fried bacon:A:A:D

Rummer

Thank you so much everyone for your ideas!

We do have a greenhouse which is good for starting things off, if we remember to water it

I have quite a lot of salad seeds so I will plant up some of the late things suggested and prep the beds for next year and cover them so that they are planting ready next year without too much work.

The weather here has just been sooooooo wet that the beds and the grass are saturated . I just need to get my head in gear.

Davesnave

Rummer wrote: »

We do have a greenhouse ....

What rhiwfield & RAS said......:D

....As you have the greenhouse, try to keep a mixed trough of cut & come again lettuce, rocket & mizuna going, to put in your sandwiches. It's only in the depths of winter that ours fail.

Warm & muggy here with rain off & on till past midday. Did some concreting-in of guide posts for the polytunnel sliding doors, so we'll be able to dispense with the 'temporary' concrete blocks that were holding them in place! :rotfl:

Smart fence, lir. The pear and rose combination seems to be working, and I suppose if the quiet air there hasn't produced mildew this wet year, it isn't going to.

Rummer

The weather here is dull yet dry so I am going to try and get a bit done today in the garden. We went to am allotment open day yesterday and I got seeds for 25p a packet which was great, although I was not exactly lacking in seeds

What I think I will do today is tackle one pot/bed at a time. Thanks to your input I have gone through my seeds and I have looked out a few saladish things that I am going to plant before the winter.

The beds I will clear and cover one at a time so as not to feel too overwhelmed. I am going to try and convince OH that cutting the grass today would be fun

lostinrates

Its too hot here for me. I have been out, brought the horses in, sprayed them with flyspray and put masks on the ones who seem to like masks and then have retreated in. Dh has decided we cannot go on with our verge in such a state. Personally it has not bothered me this year because it distracts from the building work.

Our verg is VERY hard to cut, its to high and narrow at most points, with a big ditch, to use the sit on mower, and to wide and sloping at others to do quickly with a push mower. Because its very messy agri grass it looks like its been gnawed by a plague of rats if we strim it. I cannot think what to do to resolve it most easily and cheaply (the wild flower solution calls in the furture, but it will be hellish to prep for that.

I had thought of turf stripping and replacing with something that doesn't need cutting, or only needs cutting say twice a year, but not sure what.

Rummer

Raining again

I think I am just going to have to be a poor weather gardener and get on with it as it is never going to stop raining here ever.

lostinrates

Davesnave wrote: »

Smart fence, lir. The pear and rose combination seems to be working, and I suppose if the quiet air there hasn't produced mildew this wet year, it isn't going to.

Why thank you davesnave! I have to admit i love the colour. You know when you fall in love with a colour/plant or whatever and cannot understand why anyone would choose anything else? Thats how i feel about that colour. Its strong and moody and yet soft and smokey, modern and clean, yet vintage and works well whereever i paint it.

i'll be honest, i have had some black spot. Not huge amounts, and no more, maybe even less, than elsewhere in the garden. I don't think we will know whether it is successful or not for a few years till there is a build up of vegetation. In the main i have chosen roses with it in mind though, ( what i was thinking when i planted albertine up the other end was probably speed rather than sense, she will have to move in a coue of years). It certainly looks to be shaping up promisingly. Face on you get a good sort of three d effect with the double wired layer and roses jutting forward. Training is hard with the double layers, non rose lovers would be illadvised i think to try. I did hope to push vigourous shoots behind the back layer as theyu grew.....but we all know how my summer ended up! I am glad we got that weed membrane down before the builders came, as it would be horrific now without it.

Elsewhere


Atm the hollyhocks better established than the rose, but the partnership is just beautiful.

Rummer

LIR - That is the same as or similar to the colour we have used for our fence and sheds this year. It took me years to convince my OH to let me paint wood in anything other than brown or dark green and it has transformed the garden into a really beautiful space.

Since it was raining I spent the afternoon going through my seed box and I was truly :eek: at the number of seeds that I have! So only shallots/potatoes and garlic for me to buy next year.

A few months ago I was given loads and loads of free flower seeds and I had not looked at them properly until today. All of them require to be in a temp controlled propagator to start them off and that is something we do not own. We have often thought of acquiring one but didn't know if they were worth it or which one to go for?

rhiwfield

Rummer wrote: »

A few months ago I was given loads and loads of free flower seeds and I had not looked at them properly until today. All of them require to be in a temp controlled propagator to start them off and that is something we do not own. We have often thought of acquiring one but didn't know if they were worth it or which one to go for?

TBH I've found windowsills to be just as effective for germination!

Lir, just lovely, ours might look a tiny bit better if you didnt keep blowing the rain our way And the fruit trees and roses look very promising.

Usual Sunday afternoon tiredness, these predawn starts are a pain!

Rummer

rhiwfield wrote: »

TBH I've found windowsills to be just as effective for germination!

That is what we have done in the past and when things are established we move them to the greenhouse to bring on further. Mind you we have never grown anything that has mentioned that it had to be kept at a constant temp.