Daydream thread... without the rose-tinted specs

Davesnave

COOLTRIKERCHICK wrote: »

lovely flowers Alfie...


Davesnave woul the normal black fabric stuff you get in the garden centre be ok to put in the bottom of them? was thinking of putting that stuff down, then putting straw, pig poo etc, to build it up a bit, and then soil/compost etc

Lovely flowers seconded, Alfie.:A Our new bit, supplemented heavily with single dahlias, is insect central ATM.

Woke up late from a sort of nightmare and had to rush down to the chickens. I dreamt I'd signed up to the Jehovah's Witnesses and they wouldn't let me escape....but they were all so nice about it! :rotfl:

Why would you put anything in the bottom of the deep beds, CTC????

ferretkeeper

CTC if you want to kill the grass at the bottom of the raised beds a layer of cardboard or thick newspaper will do the job, then fill up with muck/compost etc on top - it'll break down over time. Don't use the weed fabric unless you can wait and lift it out before you fill the raised bed, don't want to leave that in the bottom.

Very pretty flowers Alfie, I'm very envious of everyone's lovely pics. My "garden" is going another year unused - although the hard landscaping is getting done a lot of plants still in pots haven't survived the heatwave, that'll teach me to go mad at the garden centre

Maybe with my week off I could do a bit more there, got some decent weather apparently

COOLTRIKERCHICK

Davesnave, I am sure I read somewhere to put that stuff at the bottom of raised beds, or have I confused myself again:D:D

Davesnave

COOLTRIKERCHICK wrote: »

Davesnave, I am sure I read somewhere to put that stuff at the bottom of raised beds, or have I confused myself again:D:D

Only if you have nuclear waste down there, or something....;)

Agreement has gone off to Openreach. Now I await action and a cheque......:D

RAS

COOLTRIKERCHICK wrote: »

Davesnave, I am sure I read somewhere to put that stuff at the bottom of raised beds, or have I confused myself again:D:D

If you are making raised beds on contaminated ground, you need membrane and very deep beds.

For you purposes, you just need to exclude light and add humus.

John Jeavons "growing more food than you thought.." is a good start although very precise.

alfie_1

evening peeps

while i was out today, a friend has surprised me and been round with her son and put all the wire up for my chicken run... :A
what a cool surprise when i came round the corner !! :j

i hate only having full use of ONE hand...:mad: i know it could be a lot worse and others have more but im stilled P'd off with myself

not a lot to report today, saw to horses and went to dentist...:(

choille

You've been very busy Rummer. It hasn't been a busy gardening time here, but seem to have been dashing about all over....getting no where.

Dave I always had a hankering for a walled garden. I find them majical places especially if they are intact re green houses etc. There's a few marveloous examples in Fife - one at Kellie Castle that was turned over to an organic one by Kathy Sayer & they used to trial seeds for The Henry Doubleday? Foundation. Never seen such an immense variety of Rhubard plants.

Garden open days are wonderful - didn't do the ones here this year. I do love a good snoop round the back! If you get my drift.

Just snitched a couple of cuttings or 4 from places we've been to do surveys. A lovely pink small clusters of roses that looks the same/simlar to the one in Alfie's photo. It was sprawled across a track waiting to be run over like a drunk, so it was...Officer. A gorgeous crimson coloured Buddliah & a fat white one found there way into my bag. Well small parts of them that are now jabbed into a pot.

It's been really wet & stormy so nothing doing build wise as the roofers can't finish it until it's still & dry.

Bought an oak mirror backed sideboard off Gumtree for £80 which is such a bargain. It was quite a faff & trail to get it across the county, but what a find.

lostinrates

Really feeling the later morning today.....I'm hanging around to put the birds out. Its light, but that sort if 'fox light'.

Sudden jump from half six ish to..well...will let them out in a minute I guess.

Davesnave

lostinrates wrote: »

Really feeling the later morning today.....I'm hanging around to put the birds out. Its light, but that sort if 'fox light'.

Sudden jump from half six ish to..well...will let them out in a minute I guess.

Mine went out at 06.10......:o

including the new ones, which didn't actually emerge while I was there. They're Fenton Blues, so hopefully, blue/green eggs and through the winter too.


We picked them up yesterday. Funny old set-up; served by a couple of kids and a French youth who didn't speak much Anglais. If we ever buy from somewhere normal, it will be a bloomin' miracle! :rotfl:

Still, they look OK, and no bugs apparent.

Davesnave

choille wrote: »

Dave I always had a hankering for a walled garden. I find them majical places especially if they are intact re green houses etc. There's a few marveloous examples in Fife - one at Kellie Castle that was turned over to an organic one by Kathy Sayer & they used to trial seeds for The Henry Doubleday? Foundation. Never seen such an immense variety of Rhubard plants.
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I think walled gardens are fine if you can see out. The one I posted wasn't like that and we didn't get good vibes somehow. It looked good on paper.

Here is another we didn't get, mainly because all sorts of stuff was going on at the time with my elderly Dad, and we were run ragged. This one was offers on £40k and no prospect of a house, but from our POV the biggest stumbling block was that the wall was listed....and there was no vehicle access. We wondered about a bit of serious restoration in exchange for a proper entrance, or a RoW over the field next door.

http://goo.gl/maps/8LUES

You can see that the person who bought it had issues with the access too, so used the bulldozer approach to solving it. The Streetview is well out of date, but I sincerely hope the council threw the book at him! :mad::mad::mad: Knowing the location, I expect they did.

I still regret not going for this. Even with limited access it would have been perfect for so many things! C'est la vie!