Daydream thread... without the rose-tinted specs

I_have_spoken

Lawn chaps are here...so nice to see others working in the garden for a change!

Managed to get the main planting finished by 08:30 :eek: The summer bedding and some odds and ends I can probably manage from the patio side of the beds, so won't need to walk on the lawn.

This is the 'before' photo...and yes the pergola will get a cross-beam!



Getting there ....



Ta-Da!

COOLTRIKERCHICK

I have spoken, you really are doing a good job with your garden, it will be nice to see it later on in the summer...looks great.


Davesnave... how annoying, but at least it wasn't done out of malice, it was a genuine thing, they didn't know... and has you said... its going to be very hard them stepping out into the real world...


Next doors annoying kids, I have never seen them with any friends etc, always with their parents, and I think the eldest has only a year left in comp...I thought I was over protective with our boys, lol..

Davesnave

Great progress! :T That garden will soon take off now, IHS. Second year always looks so much better than the first.

Whizzed a load of tomato plants down to the church Plant Fair and Cafe, and after a bit of a chat, whizzed back again.
People seem to be looking out for our tomatoes now, but this year I only did 2 varieties for charity sales, Gardener's Delight and Marmande. At home, I'm growing my 'fast tomatoes' to fruit a month or so before the others, then I'll scrap those and have Floridity as the main crop.

This morning I've been treating the old chicken shed, ready for the big change-over. Soon, the chickens will be back in their original orchard area.:)

pink_poppy

Garden is looking lovely, IHS, you can see a lot of hard work has gone into it

It was so cold here last night & there was a frost this morning. Nice & sunny now but the wind is a bit nippy.

My raspberries are going a bit mad ~ I think I should have tied them up with something as they're leaning over quite badly Not really sure what to do with them ~ can anyone advise, please?? They've been in a couple of years now (had a small amount of fruit on them last year but I was away when they were ripe so I missed out on trying them!!).

Davesnave

Raspberries are typically tied-in to wires stretched between poles, but some varieties need little or no support.

Maybe some strong canes pushed well into the ground and garden wire or polypropylene string would suffice to hold them up?

COOLTRIKERCHICK

morning all ( just)


woke up early, then went back to sleep, haven't long got up.. I really do sleep well in the caravan lol..


hubby just gone out to get some food, and then we will be chainsawing more wood, and starting to make a bit of garden clear to plant out the peas etc..


This year we are trying to make headway with a wood pile... a little bit every day or so, seems to be working a treat...


also our little boglets are like peeing/pooping machines lol... the amount of straw we are going through, and they are just under 3 weeks old...


weather is a mix between sunny hazy sky with a breeze

Davesnave

Very quiet on here, so the weather must be OK most places.

I'm counting on the bay being quiet for a couple of hours too, as I've bid on a lawnmower! :cool:

Someone we helped a little is taking us out for lunch. After the week we've had that will be a tonic.

Firewood making at this time of year is good, CTC. :A We all mean to.......:o

COOLTRIKERCHICK

Hope you have a lovely meal/time out Davesnave..


Last year we got caught out... the time flew by, and before we knew it, we only had a small bit of wood stored... so this year... I really do want to try and get a routine going, and a good stockpile going... Also with the little wooden wendy house style shed now put up, and the long brick building roofed.. we have alot more storage now.. for it to dry out..


I have some young male quails that I need to get rid of, and I am half thinking about culling them for food? if I can face eating them after doing the gutting etc, I suppose I can feed them to the cats lol

Rummer

Weather is rubbish here cold and wet so yet again no gardening!

I have decided that I am going to get a gardener to sort out the front patch (which we all know I hate) and then I am going to pack it with fast growing matting heather so I only have to cut the grass a few times a year. Does anyone know which heathers would be best?

Better_Days

Sorry Rummer, not got a clue about heathers, although I do recall seeing some in a garden centre when we visited our Welsh friends which were spray painted purple (the heathers not our friends:rotfl::rotfl:) One way of getting colour into the garden I suppose.

Lovely here today, to make up for yesterday which was rather chilly. Persuaded Mr BD to take me to a nearby garden centre yesterday which I had been wanting to scope out for ages. Lots bigger than I thought it would be and loads to look at. I forsee some happy hours browsing round there - and a massive bonus - virtually all the surfaces are suitable for my powered wheelchair, so I don't run the risk of getting stuck and then having to request an 'extraction'.:o:o

CTC I have big plans for stockpiling wood this summer too, it is going to go in front of the fence when the leylandii come down. Well, that's the plan anyway.;)

Did you have a good lunch Dave and any luck with the lawnmower? Mr BD is pleased with our Aldi one, but it remains to seen how long it will last.

Oh and I've ordered some of these paving slabs for the back garden - they work out at just over £2 each so I hope they will be OK http://www.clearancepaving.co.uk/concrete-paving-slabs/64-honey-brown-riven-paving-slabs-600x450x32mm/

Back into the garden now while the sun is shining. Got a sunlounger which I got from freecycle which is calling me.....