Making chicken feed of my mortgage

Tilly_MFW_in_6_YRS

Morning MWC, facial sounds fab :T

My day looks a little like yours. Lawn cut, weeding, more planting, we are taking fencing down, rather than putting it up, buy wood chip and sprinkle liberally where needed.

Our garden is flowerless, we tend to grow mainly veg and we have both decided this is the year for flowers, so I may be coming to you for advice

Have a good day, Tilly x

muddywhitechicken

Tilly_MFW_in_6_YRS wrote: »

Our garden is flowerless...

:eek::eek::eek: no flowers :eek::eek::eek:

It's only recently that I've added a few shrubs and grasses as they take up valuable flower growing space!!!

MWCx

Habibiboo

:wave:

Happy gardening MWC - it's a lovely day for it here, I can hear the neighbours' mowing as we "speak" - hope you have the same weather there!

We're trying for a mix of both in our garden - a productive end (as it were) of chooks, compost and raised beds etc; a sitting bit alongside Mr. Hbbb's pond (standing joke, is a plastic bowl sunk into the ground, which the local birds use as their bath) so more of a luxury bird spa than pond; and a large border which we're trying to establish as a cottage flower border, although my Sweet William seeds seem to have been an epic failure!

Do you plant flowers to look at in the garden or for cutting too? I'd love to be able to just go out to the garden and bring vase-fulls back indoors with me!

muddywhitechicken

I'd love a cutting garden Hbbb, maybe one day...

I do cut some flowers to bring inside but certainly not huge armfuls!

:rotfl: @ Mr Hbbb's pond

Mr MWC :heart2: his hotbin composter :smileyhea

I'd love to swap gardens with our neighbours - their garden is twice as long, practically a blank canvas and they're not keen gardeners

We've just sacrificed some lawn for the raised beds and fruit trees

The beds in the back garden are mainly hot-coloured perennials with a few red/purple-leaved or red stemmed shrubs and space for for a few annuals

My herb garden is in pots and I have another dozen or so pots on the patio

The beds in the front garden (north-west facing) are box balls of various sizes, some evergreen ground cover plants and purple-flowering perennial geraniums, iris, alliums, agapanthus, clematis and aquilegia

muddywhitechicken

Eggs IN 5
Eggs OUT 0

The pampering session was lovely and relaxing... well apart from the extraction :eek:
Cost to me = £8 :T

I did have my eyebrows waxed in the end and I don't look too startled :rotfl:

Mr MWC is busy cooking up a storm in the kitchen :kisses3:

Denis Cotter's cardamom-roasted cauliflower with pistachio & green pepper salsa and leek, tomato & coconut pilau for dinner - I can't wait!!!

Habibiboo

muddywhitechicken wrote: »

I'd love a cutting garden Hbbb, maybe one day...

I do cut some flowers to bring inside but certainly not huge armfuls!

:rotfl: @ Mr Hbbb's pond

Mr MWC :heart2: his hotbin composter :smileyhea

Tis a man thing, I think, whenever I can't find Mr Hbbb compost is usually involved!

I'd love to swap gardens with our neighbours - their garden is twice as long, practically a blank canvas and they're not keen gardeners

How frustrating!

We've just sacrificed some lawn for the raised beds and fruit trees

Yes, funny how a lawn suddenly becomes an orchard! A little bit less to mow though, I guess!

The beds in the back garden are mainly hot-coloured perennials with a few red/purple-leaved or red stemmed shrubs and space for for a few annuals

My herb garden is in pots and I have another dozen or so pots on the patio

The beds in the front garden (north-west facing) are box balls of various sizes, some evergreen ground cover plants and purple-flowering perennial geraniums, iris, alliums, agapanthus, clematis and aquilegia

:wave:

Sounds like you have the flower end of things pretty well covered there MWC!

Glad you had a relaxing day and the eyebrows turned out well! Enjoy your dinner x

Alchemilla

You sound like the kind of gardener I would like to be.

muddywhitechicken

muddywhitechicken wrote: »

Denis Cotter's cardamom-roasted cauliflower with pistachio & green pepper salsa and leek, tomato & coconut pilau for dinner

Delicious

The recipe is in his 'For the Love of Food: Vegetarian Recipes from the Heart' book

Off to tackle the kitchen - Mr MWC isn't the tidiest of chefs!

muddywhitechicken

The neighbours are going to hate me The Girls had a panic attack at 06:15 and screeched/honked very loudly for 15+ minutes No obvious reason and not even a handful of mealworms would shut them up :mad:

Today will be mainly spent in the garden as the only job that got done yesterday was mowing the lawn. FIL is arriving at midday to help Mr MWC with the fence before they settle down in front of the TV for an afternoon of footie!

I haven't invited my dad and that woman for dinner today - we've decided we need a breather from her...

Tilly_MFW_in_6_YRS

Morning MWC, one of our hounds has taken to woofing around 5.30am. I think it's light so she thinks its time to be up and walking :eek:

I hope they have a good day, can relax and calm down

Glad to hear the 'lady friend' won't be visiting but sad that time with your dad is tainted occasionally.

I'll be in the garden this afternoon and thinking of a flower bed

Tilly x