Preparedness for when

D&DD

Morning all
Blimey you can hear a pin drop here *apart from the dog snoring* I have the house to myself for the first time since DS2 left school in June!!!!! What shall I do first...


BB you have an outstandingly clever OH they look fab and practical too is he available for hire lol mine is a bit of a liability round power tools! Hope your op goes well XX


Possession glad you have had some more advice sorry was a bit too manic to get back on last night.Logan berries are a great idea as they are earlier than raspberries too so you get them around a month in advance (around june here) then the summer raspberries and then the autumn ones Very moneysaving.Make sure they are thornless ones tho.


DS2 will be starting his job trial in a few minutes so I'll not be able to settle all day need to find something to keep me busy as if I need any help finding jobs to do in this house..don't know where to start.


Debating shoving the rest of the kamikaze cukes out as the others are growing like triffids,I think 5 plus 4 gherkins may have been a bit excessive lol

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We have a fig tree planted in a large pot in and sunk into the ground in one of the back borders, it backs on to a high fence and last summer gave us over a dozen of the most delicious figs I've ever had, eaten warm from the sun they are out of this world!!! Climbers that don't mind having limited space are a self fertile Kiwi Fruit Vine, make sure it is self fertile though or you need a male and a female to get fruits, apparently they fruit prolifically even in our climate and the other thing we've had great success with is an Ornamental Grape, which gives many many bunches of small black grapes in the autumn, you don't have to do any thinning or pruning and they make the lovliest grape jelly. You can't eat them as grapes though they're much too sour and full to busting with big pips. Good where nothing else will grow.

VJsmum

Morning

Blimey, these dicky legs are showing me that I take my health far too lightly - even loading the washing machine or putting on my drawers takes a lot of effort (:D sorry if that's TMI). I am off to S. Korea later on today and am debating whether to risk a slow walk to the train station (to go to airport - not getting a train to Korea ), which is a mile away, or getting a taxi for a fiver. Last week a taxi wouldn't have been considered. I shall probably walk - it'll be good for my Seoul :rotfl: sorry, couldn't resist. i'll get me coat

Seriously though - I sympathise with all those for whom these are real life daily considerations, cos I am well fed up with it after only 4 days. My poor old mum was riddled with arthritis from the age of 38, I don't know how she managed. Even the thought of packing is wearing me out. Luckily I tend to teach perched on a table rather than walking around so that is not too big a worry, and when I am there I will have to do little walking. Until Monday, when I was planning a trip to a little suburb of Seoul which has huge historical significance and then Tuesday when I am in Amsterdam for the day on the way back. I realise these are first world problems!:o

My garden is doing nowt at the mo - well the weeds are growing thick and fast but I can't do anything about it until a week Saturday. I think I will be buying some plug plants rather than growing from seed, haven't even worked out what to plant yet.

Ah well, there's worse going on - I was going to say "worse things happen at sea", which is a saying of my mums, but then remembered the terrible Korean ferry disaster. I will have to express my sympathies to my class on Saturday

pineapple

My newish neighbour has bought a clematis for the front wall. That particular variety needs something to grab onto but this fact seems to have escaped him. But even worse it is still in a teeny garden centre pot - which they have carefully placed inside a ceramic one. You would surely not need to be Percy Thrower (showing my age now) to realise that it needs to be planted out - or planted in a very large pot - sigh...
That same neighbour put out a hanging basket with a young 1 foot high conifer in it - causing the locals endless amusement.....
And now he has carefully dug out a narrow snaking ribbon of earth and covered it with pebbles to make a likkle path across his overgrown weed infested grass. He didn't put any weed protection under the pebbles either so we are waiting with interest to see how long said path will take to disappear.

It might seem a bit churlish of us not to say anything but he doesn't like taking advice :rotfl:
He will be the first to go under if TS should HTF

Possession

I love those container ideas, and not only do I have a milk bottle waiting to go in the recycling (it won't be now) but I'm pretty sure I have one of those shoe door hangers, though I think the pockets are a mesh-y fabric which probably won't work very well.

greenbee

I might have to take advice from Mrs LW and He Who Knows who very kindly gave me some delicious rhubarb, and some plants for my increasingly empty garden... My south facing wall is about 2 metres from my neighbour's garage wall, and has an apple tree and a plum tree in the centre of the gap, so I'm not sure how much sun it will get (assuming it ever shines...).

I have a LOT of work to do in the garden...

mardatha

Am I the only peasant in here who doesn't know what a fig tastes like and has never even knowlingly seen one??? sob

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MAR if I thought it would survive the journey I'd send you one in the summer when they ripen. If I can figure out a way to get it to you safely without it spoiling I'll do just that and then you'll know. I love them as do both DDs but He Who Knows doesn't mind he doesn't like strawberries or cucumber either so he's just odd!!! Lyn xxx.

D&DD

*dons peasant cap* nah me neither Mar the look of them puts me off!I've almost been brave enough once as I like fig rolls but chickened out lol


Just having a minor crisis here regarding DS2 being stranded..as you know he can't use public transport so we rely on cabs for him,he went this morning to the job trial in one and I booked a return for 2.15..he phones at 2.10 to say he's doing so well they want him to stay til 3,meanwhile I'm on the other phone trying to re-arrange the cab and its already outside and he can't go down to pay so they're sending someone here to collect the fare so got to find someone ese to pick him up now as cabs around school time are like goldust aargh and breathe..

GreyQueen

Have a wiki fig on me, Mar: https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Common_Fig

They're not everyone's cuppa as they are a bit 'seedy' but I occasionally buy them off the market (imported I think). Not as nice as fresh off the plant, but then, what is?

pineapple, the purpose of our neighbours is to provide insulation (should we share walls with them) or entertainment. My neighbours are nothing if not entertaining, but in a gritty drama sort of way, ususally with hot & cold running coppers in attendance.

My real world habit is that I will offer unsolicited advice one time only, if I'm broadly well-disposed towards you, or at least neutral. What you do with that is your affair. You can have sought advice up to my limit of knowledge which is sometimes I'm sorry I haven't a foggy.

One of my now quitted allotment neighbours was obviously a newbie and clearly had never even seen gardening done on the telly. A kind neighbour of the far side did try to tell him that he'd do better clearing the ground with a digging fork, rather than down on his knees with a hand fork. So he got a fullsized fork, down on bended knee, and holding it by the top of the tines. Person apparently not learning-disabled, btw, just gardeningly-challenged and incapable of being told.

They didn't last and we weren't surprised.

Have told the Wiz when I'm available so expect he'l ltext that he's incoming at some point this afternoon or evening. If I disappear, it'll be because pooter is being dismantled. When I come back, it'll be with a brand-new power unit and whoosh! everything will be so much faster.