Daydream thread... without the rose-tinted specs

Rummer

Just a wee half hour in the garden today and to be honest the soil was too wet really for weeding however I have to take the time when it is available

My DD is showing more of an interest in the garden which is lovely and Rumlet is still loving the fresh air.

I do need to get a wriggle on as the beds are not close to being ready and the seedling are growing like wildfire so the greenhouse needs to be cleared and made ready for them.

Davesnave

lostinrates wrote: »

Its hollow. I have anxiety I have done the wrong thing and its going to rot as moisture gets in. I cut it some way above the highest bud ( above next budding place where there is no life), because I was trepidatious. So I am worried the void will fill. It sounds hollow all the way down. I have put a cork in the top and might wax?



Stupid tree love. . Why cannot I like something like......ghastly lladro?

Oh!.....:( Surely it's not hollow all the way to the bottom?

I think foxglove trees may be difficult to get to the stage of take off. People say they should be OK after their first winter, but I think longer than that.

They will always shoot from base level, but unless huge leaves are the objective, that won't be wanted every year.

Mine went back to base at the end of winter 2012/13. This year it looks like it will carry on where it left off at around 10', but I haven't inspected it properly yet.:o

lostinrates

Davesnave wrote: »

Oh!.....:( Surely it's not hollow all the way to the bottom?

I think foxglove trees may be difficult to get to the stage of take off. People say they should be OK after their first winter, but I think longer than that.

They will always shoot from base level, but unless huge leaves are the objective, that won't be wanted every year.

Mine went back to base at the end of winter 2012/13. This year it looks like it will carry on where it left off at around 10', but I haven't inspected it properly yet.:o

Tapping it sounds like tapping bamboo. Or very big straw.


So I guess so?


But the ( few ) buds look happy. Maybe I'll take a picture next week for more advice from you.

I thought it was dead so to have buds on it seems miraculous. But the hollow sounds bad, right?

lostinrates

Weather meant to be bad tomorrow. Just as well. My house needs some mucking out. I might get a seed box sort out in tomorrow too.

Rummer

Due to be grim here for the next few days too LIR There never seems to be enough time to get the beds cleared or even to dig the new ones.

I ordered some seeds from ebay and they arrived today so I am going out regardless of the weather to get them planted in the garden.

Our family are having a sunflower growing competition this year and so far mine are in the lead :j:rotfl::j

Davesnave

lostinrates wrote: »

Weather meant to be bad tomorrow. Just as well. My house needs some mucking out. I might get a seed box sort out in tomorrow too.

Weather was bad here today, which was yesterday now, IYSWIM ! :cool:

Managed to get a few more stakes on trees that need them before lunch, but the wind and rain drove us into the barn pm to continue filling gaps at the eaves to prevent pigeon ingress.

For us, tomorrow looks like a better bet, with lighter winds and showers. Like you, Rummer, I have found bits of the garden getting away from me, with weeds bursting forth in great profusion.

I've never had a hollow foxglove tree, lir, but then I've never had a mature one. Mine either go back to base or curl up their toes altogether, as they did in 2010, but I have previously kept them potted and grown for the huge leaves. They are glorious for sub-tropical effect, but liable to be torn to shreds up here!

pink_poppy

I'd never heard of a foxglove tree so I've just googled it, looks lovely. Very tolerant of atmospheric pollution, apparently. Would do well here then

Dave, how is the cat this morning?? I noticed you posted late/early again.

COOLTRIKERCHICK

morning all,


we got caught up in that horrible rain yesterday afternoon, in a field in a middle if an auction lol...


prices were going high yesterday.. so only came away with 2 things..


a short clay chimnley pot for £5 to add to the other I have to put around the garden.... there were more there, but they went too expensive for me..


2 huge pots of London's pride.. so will separate the 'rosettes style plants' put one in each pot, and forget until next year, where hopefully they would have filled up the pot..


This was one of the first plants I done this with, and then sold them in the local village Friday market well if you could call it that 2 veg stalls, a meat stall, and 'casual stalls lol, sold all my plants for 50p each, this was going back at least 12 - 15 years ago... now there is a big local shop selling loads of plants..


I also used to buy the big pots of 'mums' chrysanths as there were 5 individual plants in there for a £ ( a shop called hypervalue used to get them in now and again, a cheap shop well before all these £ shops came along) and I use to re-pot them, so had 5 plants and sold them in the farm auctions...lol..


my quails have started laying... had 5 eggs yesterday....




right off for a cuppa... and plan what needs doing today...

lostinrates

CTC,

I am so wishing we were closer.

I imagine you me and Alf in close proximity could be a dangerous combination.

But.....I'd love to see baby quails and I'd be buying eggs from you like a good'un. I love them, when we used to entertain more at about this time of year I used to make a very decadent pasta dish with quails eggs, asparagus and prosciutto.....


But it strikes me, if you were to get in touch with some one who has a food production capability...luxuryscotch eggs, your pork, your quails eggs. Black pudding scotch eggs from waitrose are dh's favorites, But a really good butcher in the sw ( who is very popular with those who shoot and party) rolls his normal scotch eggs in dried onions. I'm thinking a seasoning featuring celery seed to emphasis the quails eggs would be a nice touch.

COOLTRIKERCHICK

LIR... totally agree, even though we have not met up 'yet' I agree if we lived closer I think the 3 of us together would be right little monkeys lol... Alife and I seem to have more or less the same taste in decor, and ideas about things...


Before I can sell to caterers, shops etc I have to be inspected by the council, ( with the pork I can only sell to family and friends, and with the eggs I can sell direct to the public, but not to caterer's and shops) so before I 'kit' out our building up the ranch, I wanted to know what the council look for etc, but they didn't know, so they are going to research and get back to me, as I don't want to kit the building out, and then they tell me its wrong... like can I pack and store the eggs in a seperated partitioned area of where I will be keeping the quails.. do I need to wash/dip the eggs in a santaise wash? ( or have they stopped that now?)


I want to get things right before hand, for a few reasons.. 1.. not to waste time and money doing things, only for it to have to be changed...plus once the neighbour from hell, hears about it, they will prob try reporting me for the quails too...


plus there is no water connected to the building, so if we do need a water supply in there, then we have got to sort out the waste water, and put in a drainage system to the wain drain ( which isn't that far away from it) so would I need planning for that???


I know at the moment I have to label them.. with a use by of 21 days ( if we are registered etc this would then go up to 28 days) and we have to display the way the birds are kept ( I think) so the label would say 'from caged birds' there is no way you can free range quail.. the big companies are now doing a rancge called 'free to fly' so I will have to find out what the exact definition is of this in the commercial quail egg world lol