Daydream thread continues.....

Davesnave

lostinrates wrote: »

Davesnave, some of my plants have yellow leaves, like mag deficiency. I have put it down to the huge amounts of rain over summer, but what would you advise in flower borders this time of year to replenish?

That's where I'd probably use any compost I make. I put dung on the veggies, but it's full of weed seeds so I'd avoid using that. I don't feed flowers & shrubs in the ground by chemical methods.

TBH I only used to have that mag deficiency problem with things like raspberries. So I'd give Epsom salts. Same with potted stuff.

Has anyone else noticed there's been more leaf disease problems with trees this year? In our area, I've noticed tops of small sycamores dying out, or sections of larger trees, and I saw this yesterday in other places too. Our Paul's Scarlet hawthorn has also lost virtually all its leaves and other hawthorns I've grown for hedging all have the leaf spot too.

COOLTRIKERCHICK

Alfie... Yes I think so, and as Rhiwie said this week is to break us in, and get us 'in the mood' for listing etc.... Even though this is a challenge for the 4 of us, we will ALL be winners:T as the motorvation will get us to list more.... so come on Alfiekins we cant have rhiwie and Choille getting one over on us:D
I am trying to list a few a day,so over the next few weeks I would have built up a good lot of listings, with BIN, re-listings etc..plus As I have opened a bay shop I need to list 50 BIN a month( this is what they said on the bay forum) for it to be worth my while financially when it comes to the fees..( dont know if it is worth you looking into rhiwie) as a BIN is only 10p a listing with a shop, but the shop fee is £15.99 a month..

Alfie are you on F.book? I have a page that I use purely for finding people who sell/buy vintage and be-friend them etc, I then post bay links so they can see the items I have for sale;) even if I only get one buyer from that it will be worth it:D

Since we have had the piggies, Hubby has grafted like a trooper to get the next section cleared...its going to be a very long hard slog...this is the main battery chicken shed that has collapsed, and been unused since the 1980's, over-growth and flip knows what that has been dumped there too..Now we could really do with a mini digger, but hayho.... at least it is being cleared slowly..

Your will have to take some pics of these shark fin things to show us:D

Alexelisey

lostinrates wrote: »

Alex,

Take care at work. That atmosphere can be toxic. Dh has been out of his for six months and seems half a foot taller, but is dreading going back!

Thanks LiR. I'm only doing it until we're ready to move with house sold and cash in pocket. I was in a slightly different situation at my last job - I had no friends at all! At least at my current job (and here where everyone's on the same wavelength) I do have some good ones to offset the hostility It's been good to have the money, but my health and mental stability are beginning to suffer. The sooner I can get out, the quicker I'll recover. And of course it has a knock-on effect with DH's health and wellbeing too. What affects one, affects the other.

Well, another delicious day off today, I shall be spending the time going back over this thread, oiling some of the machine needles and cleaning them, lounging around with the cat and just generally chilling out. Maybe I'll make a coffee for the "workforce" later (youngest son and DH) if I can be arsed! :rotfl:

Have a lovely day everyone!

rhiwfield

COOLTRIKERCHICK wrote: »

Alfie... Yes I think so, and as Rhiwie said this week is to break us in, and get us 'in the mood' for listing etc.... Even though this is a challenge for the 4 of us, we will ALL be winners:T as the motorvation will get us to list more.... so come on Alfiekins we cant have rhiwie and Choille getting one over on us:D

Spot on CTC! We can all be winners.

My biggest challenge is to secure profitable stock to sell, not easy when the whole world seems addicted to "antiques tv !!!!!!" Bargain Hunt, Put Your Money Where Your Mouth Is, Antiques Road Trip, Antiques Road Show, Cash in the Attic, Secret Dealers, Dickinsons Real Deal etc etc.

Woman next to me at the boot trying to sell a nondescript piece of pressed glass "Its Morono, thats what my friend said when she sold it to me"!!!

I get as much, if not more, pleasure from researching the various objects we buy than from selling profitability. So it was illuminating to find out about the relation between Alumina and Royal Copenhagen, and realize we had a nice piece of fajance by a 50s designer (now on its way to Japan). Or that a little brass dog is a Sealyham (off to the USA).

And CTC mentioned FB, another possibility is to start your address book of potential buyers/sellers. We now sell a small percentage direct to people that we know, and I have others coming to sell to us. No fees involved either

Right, off to get car serviced and Mot'd.

COOLTRIKERCHICK

Rhiwie I could have told you that was a sealyham, I was secretary of the sealyham terrier club upteen moons ago, when I used to show and judge them, went over to the states too:D.. sold a load of my sealyham stuff years ago, and most of that went to the states...Used to show westies and bloodhounds too


Edit.... and a useless bit of info.....did you know sealyham terriers is one of the only breeds of dog that has its origins pinpointed to the exact place/house Sealyham Mansion.... most other breeds comes from an 'area'

Davesnave

rhiwfield wrote: »

Right, off to get car serviced and Mot'd.

Looks like your car & my old one have close MoT 'birthdays.'

Unfortunately, the only way I shall celebrate the event this year is by euthanasia! :rotfl:

Davesnave

alfie_1 wrote: »

comfrey....:rotfl::rotfl::rotfl: yeh !!;) what proof is that liquid !!

I think it may be too strong at the dilution I'm using, hence brown patches on the tomato leaves between the veins. Too much potash.

The really stinky stuff is in a similar barrel behind the shanty town woodsheds. That's just leaves mixed with water and I've been diluting that too, a bit, when I use it. It's all been a bit of an experiment to see how smelly I can make it, not that I have neighbours who would hate the smell and think it was their septic tank, or anything like that......;):rotfl:

lostinrates

My ice crystal fig has suffered aome damage. Typically on the big branch with the three figs on it.

Best way forward advice please? Its hanging off, so think it has to come right off. What chance do you all reckon to cuttings from it?

RAS

Davesnave wrote: »

I have lost count of my squashes and STMs. The STMs have gone beserk and they're now fighting with my comfrey, as well as going next door into the thatcher's store area.

That figures. They seem to like wet and warm.

Last year I cut the one ripe melon for the show (early September) and left two little ones to bulk up. The smaller one got clobbered by the slugs but the other grew well. The plant was going nuts - 15-20 foot in every direction. Just before the first frost I discovered a huge STM 30cm+ diameter fruit in the garden the other side of the path beyond the plots. The vine was growing at least another 6 foot beyond that.

I rescued it the night the frosts were due because the folks were still abroad,

I have had up to 6 melons on a single vine in other years.

Small warning - comfrey leaves scratch the young melon skin so it get marked. But that does not seem to affect storage. I have kept them as long as 18 months. A bit fibrous by then but still sweet.

I only grew two this year and then fried them in the bedroom window in the early May sun:mad:.

Still loads of seed to harvest from last year's crop.

lostinrates

No denying it, its getting cold. Just added 'briong in pelagoniums' to the weekend list. I haven't even dead headed them this year and they just keep going.

Next year i want to get a pretty under window outside thing to have them displayed in, so might pot them up individually now (they are mainly planted into those long plastic window boxes). I also think we will move the fogs into the back garden. There is more sun, and i can try and get more huge plastic pots for them to have them all along the 'terrace' (aka concrete path at back of house)