Daydream thread continues.....

choille

Cheers RAS - I have already got Russian Comfrey in that bed & also some replacement Asparagus crowns recently planted & I'll plant lettuces in the space left. Original asparagus died the other Winter when everything froze deep for three-four months.

My back is a weak thing & doesn't take much to ache.

Mrs Teddy died - why I do not know,but I suspect she was rather old going by her legs. I'd moved her & Mr Ted into a run in an attempt to get eggs to incubate that would be pure Buffs............Feel it was my fault some how - must now aquire some buff females.
Drat that bleeding badger for killing his concubines.

COOLTRIKERCHICK

Sorry to hear about mrs teddy, choille...

r.a.i.n.b.o.w.. yes alu can still fetch good money, which reminds me we have bags and bags full in work to weigh in...When i say good money, i think its around £500 a ton, but alu cans are light so you do need loads to get a £ or 2....but the way i look at it even if you get a few pence/quid it is more than what you would have had...and the money is better in my savings pot, than laying on the road, or put into the council recycling bags...

If you do start collecting alu cans, dont get disappointed with the amount of money you get.... it all adds up..... its 'free money'

In some scrap yards you can get paid for steel cans, but that is only about £150 a ton...so not really worth actively trying to save your baked bean tins etc....

I agree with the marigolds... pretty little plants... i am going to get seeds and try and grow some to sell on...was also thinking of some dwarf sun flowers, think they might look nice sold potted up in bloom....

I have a really busy few days, as i have got 2 vintage fairs this weekend,:eek: one near to where we live, and one in bath on sunday....Then the saturday after we are hopefully going to start doing the monthly farmers market/auction again.... got loads and loads of overalls, work dungerees to sell off cheap..but i really do nned to find some time next week in the evenings to sort out the greenhouse...to start sowing..

LIR.... Our house is like a right bomb site... steptoe and sons have nothing on us:o:cool::rotfl: even though the new place needs work, we would personally live there.... but this house needs at least 20k spent on it to bring it up to any sort of standard:cool: basically broken windows... damp... new roof, or at least some repair work... new kitchen/bathroom.. etc.. and thats without all the heating elerectic testing etc...

In all honesty i think one of the options would be just put it inot auction, and what ever it gets, them we would owe the diff on waht we owe on it, rather than spend 20k on it.. and it still be in neg equity...

One step at a time.... and see what the next few months brings...as Davesnave says one door closes another one opens....it might open into a nice rosey garden or a flipping dirty big swamp:rotfl:

Davesnave

lostinrates wrote: »

I just wish i had stuff to share. . Still cannot interest anyone in the automatic feeders i guess?

I feed too automatically already....Nom! nom! nom!:o:EasterBun

lostinrates

Grim, old day. So geim inhave locked the birds away now. Too grizzly for us!

choille

Cold wind but fair amazingly. Received the shark seeds RAS - many thanks. Have managed to clear second small bed yipee. Scot's Greys kept me company hoovering up unearthed magotty things - leather jackets? & worms............

Feel better that I've made a start. Thinking over last weeks conference & how important it is to retain the old seeds & breeds..........

RAS

choille wrote: »

Cold wind but fair amazingly. Received the shark seeds RAS - many thanks. Have managed to clear second small bed yipee. Scot's Greys kept me company hoovering up unearthed magotty things - leather jackets? & worms............

Feel better that I've made a start. Thinking over last weeks conference & how important it is to retain the old seeds & breeds..........

Well, since these were posted yesterday after lunch (think the collection was 5pm) and you both got them today, I am gob-smacked.

Glad the Scots greys are getting a little extra protein and that your ground is getting de-bugged, though I might want to rescue the worms?:rotfl:

RAS

And re retaining old seed and breeds - yep. Most of peas, beans and toms are heritage as is some other stuff but I still try the new things when they come along.

Basically I like things from which I can save seed as it is more cost effective really. And given the EU laws on seed selling, a minor act of civil disobedience.

At which point...........

Anyone anywhere know where I can get my mitts on Sweetcord Triple Play???

I got some from the US a few years ago and it was the earliest of the early varieties I grew. Planted as chitted seed on June 4 and picked first cob on the late August Bank Holiday. Expected it to be "un-sweet" but found that as long as it was cooked with 24 hours it was very sweet when yellow, very full flavoured but less sweet when pink.

lostinrates

My courtesy car from the garage is an ancient lwb land rover that struggles at about forty....i think i might not come and visit this weekend alfie.....i'll leave here on saturdayand arrive on sunday if i do! Lol.

choille

We have fast post here RAS - so the ebay customers tell me as they get their items the next day if I post first class.
I haven't gone through all the bumph from the conference but I was amazed at the seed stalls & some had little tubs & were encouraging you to help yourself to some - should of really but didn't want anymore Toms nor kale seed.

Have been clearing reeds from amongst my fruit bushes & rasp canes - totally getting taken over by them. The grounds quite soft with it being so wet so I'm managing to get them out so far, plan to use some crispy dead bracken as mulch - well that's the plan. Look's like the rasps are picking up & we'll have more than the odd bowl or two in the Summer MMMMmmmmmmmmmm - my favourite fruit.

alfie_1

LIR...no problem, it was good of you to offer in the 1st place

gates are 5ft each wide and 7ft tall. got BIG hinge bars [the sort that drops on a pole type] it has a big latch to close and a bolt and a big pole that can be dropped into the ground to secure one half. they are in very good condition. solid wood [planed not rough....well they came off a £4m house rear drive ]
they fit flat on my trailer so if you did want em i can deliver

im getting Rubes to let me kiss her on the nose and stroke her chin before i give her,her feed funny thing is she lets me stand right beside her when she's eating etc..?? she used to love me brushing her.... i WILL get there...bit like your landy....slowly.:rotfl:

CTC....i am sure everything will turn a corner for you and only bright days are ahead ..:)

im going to put the frizzle cOckbird in with some silkie hens and see what turns up/out fluffy frizzled snowballs i hope

i collected 5 lengths of fencing today too. its about 3ft high and about 8ft lengths . sort of flat wood spaced uprights. cant think of the name for it..:o pailing ? anyway its going to border some flower beds to hopefully repel chook attacks....:D

got to go see a whole shed full of stored stuff at another house next week, see whats what...;)
ive come to the conclusion that i get given it all cos i look like a tramp half the time ..:rotfl: and they feel sorry for me...:rotfl:
who am i to argue...;)

the weather here is dense fog from about 7pm to 11am . then overcast but no rain and fairly mild.cold at night tho,...[says me hugging my hot water bottle ]