Daydream thread... without the rose-tinted specs

moneyistooshorttomention

Spring flowers coming up here too in my garden. Not best pleased....as everything was supposed to have been removed...:cool:, so I will be out there digging them up myself then...:(

Still waiting and hoping for when I have the money available to do the dealing with waterlogging in garden that previous owner should have done/didn't do. Horrible feeling I will have used up all available money before I get to the stage of paying previous owners' bill for them and having the work done myself and that's a large chunk of my growing space maybe being too wet to grow anything other than water-loving plants in for some time....errrr....are water lilies edible I wonder?

I'd be interested to know what edible plants anyone has put in a waterlogged position myself and how they did. I'm not going to change my pre-house decision that literally every single thing in my garden must be edible....

Could always just throw a load of ferns at Resident Swamp whilst I wait for it to be "normal/do what I want with"....but am nervous about whether fiddlehead ferns are as edible as they are said to be....

I think sorrel is okay with wet feet? So what else....

Don't want to put in a load of wild garlic. I like it and it looks very pretty....but it spreads so.

COOLTRIKERCHICK

LIR, I might take you up on the visit. if you don't mind, and maybe one day you could come here too.


We are going to have a proper site meeting in the next week or so, its needed now, as stonemason keeps on popping into work etc for updates etc.. This way we can really get down to the nitty-gritty stuff once an for all


Rummer good luck with the next day or two, with the appointments etc... Give little Rumlet a kiss from us lot... and tell rumlet we are ALL thinking about them..


Alfie when are you actually going to move?? NOW I know its might not be connected, BUT the thing that you suffer from, could that have been brought on, or aggravated by the condition of the house in any way?????

Rummer

Money Our garden is prone to flooding and we have got round it by building raised beds. Currently we have low raised beds in the areas that are not too flooded and when we have the money we will build higher raised beds in the worse affected areas. The worse areas dry out a bit in spring and summer but are never completely dry However I can't see us ever in a financial position to fix it.

The front garden is the worst and we have tried growing a variety of things in it however this year we are just going to let the grass grow over the edging and keep it as lawn as it takes up too much precious time.

The back garden which is dry is very shaded so we have gone for pretty shade loving things and we grow food in the side garden or in pots in the back.

CTC I was telling Rumlet about you all the other day :rotfl: We (well I) was talking about what we would be doing in the garden and the people that help me with it

COOLTRIKERCHICK

LOL... Rummer, so glad Rumlet is getting to know his 'extended family'. It must be an emotional roller-coaster for you at mo... , BUT on saying that its like that at what ever age etc the kids are..

lostinrates

A303 has flooded.

Bad news. I'm confused a to where to, where the a36 crosses it .....I cannot picture it even though its my corner of the world...I need to check.

Edit: of course, beautiful Wilton. Hmm. Wilton is low and the 3a36 there but I had 'nt realised the 303 was low there tbh.

moneyistooshorttomention

Raised beds might be one route to go down....as in putting a very low-level wall (couple of bricks high perhaps??) along the side of that bit. Hmm....surely a 1' high wall can't be THAT expensive...even when its made of bricks and it would be RATHER long?:think:.

Lots of thinking/frustration going on...as I do have the money to cover that...only its in the Governments pockets instead of mine (ie the amount I need to sort that bit out well about equates to the amount of State Pension Money the Government has kept in their coffers since I reached 60, rather than paying me my SP). Does hope the Government is using my money well and getting value for it:mad::cool::(

Hmm...thinks I will pick a builders brains re what a Tiny Height Wall would cost me....

lostinrates

Money, we've made a raised bed with breeze blocks found about the place on there IDE, two high, and not secured them/ mortared. A dry stone breezeblock wall.

Yes, its hideous. But it got soil somewhere to grow stuff.

Mind you.....its full of weed ATM!

Davesnave

moneyistooshorttomention wrote: »

Lots of thinking/frustration going on...as I do have the money to cover that...only its in the Governments pockets instead of mine (ie the amount I need to sort that bit out well about equates to the amount of State Pension Money the Government has kept in their coffers since I reached 60, rather than paying me my SP). Does hope the Government is using my money well and getting value for it:mad::cool::(

Hmm...thinks I will pick a builders brains re what a Tiny Height Wall would cost me....

On the other hand, if you'd been a bloke.....

In dealing with the waterlogging, you must have somewhere for the water to go, which can be tricky if this is already the low point in your garden. What's your strategy there?

Personally I wouldn't build walls to make raised beds, though when I did, it was lir's method with breeze blocks laid flat and two high for speed, or the stones I exhumed and built with mortar, random fashion, for economy. Neither way is hard or requires building skills, but rsandom stonework is like a jigsaw and takes ages.

Now, I go for fence posts, chopped up and concreted-in, with 12' half round fencing rails nailed to them, three high. Cheap, bloomin strong and look good too. Again, any twit who can dig holes and use a spirit level can make those. I just stole the idea from a local who makes planters in a similar way.

moneyistooshorttomention

Hmmm....don't fancy myself digging holes. Physical strength is something I don't have.

Thanks for the clarification that breezeblocks would be laid flat:T. I was picturing them laid upright and wondering how that worked out....

Sounds like a DIY idiot like myself could just go 2 bricks flat, then 2 bricks flat etc etc with breezeblocks.....hmmm...

phoebe1989seb

lostinrates wrote: »

A303 has flooded.

Bad news. I'm confused a to where to, where the a36 crosses it .....I cannot picture it even though its my corner of the world...I need to check.

Edit: of course, beautiful Wilton. Hmm. Wilton is low and the 3a36 there but I had 'nt realised the 303 was low there tbh.

Thanks for the heads up LIR - we were planning to head into Salisbury later today/tomoz and DH likes to visit a record shop in Wilton so might have to rethink that idea/find an alternative route. We already had to do a detour the other day when part of the A30 was closed due to flooding.......and consider ourselves very lucky that despite living in *wet Wiltshire* and having a stream running through the garden, we have so far managed to avoid any internal ingress here Hope you got your flooding issue sorted without too much damage?

Rummer - lovely to hear you've been telling little Rumlet about his cyber Aunties & Uncles, bless him Hope you get to enjoy done time in the more pleasant weather, if not today then over the weekend x

CTC - you'd be most welcome to come and see our place too if you're down this way visiting Alfie and LIR - we're about half an hour away from Salisbury, travelling further west. As the owners of another stone *project* encountering similar issues it might be worth a look

I'm not going to get much done outside today - was planning to get in some time either in the garden (what a mess, our lawn has been attacked by moles :mad:) or clearing more Tarmac from the courtyard - but our puppy was spayed yesterday and is currently attempting to negotiate the house (accessible areas) whilst wearing a ginormous Elizabethan collar. As a result DH doesn't want her left alone for too long - especially as our other dog is taking a little too keen an interest in her nether regions so looks like I'm confined to barracks, lol