Daydream thread... without the rose-tinted specs

alfie_1

when i moved to my last house i found allsorts in/on the ground. in fact i had car wheels, radiators,bumpers,... in fact cars and bicycles in various states of decay. apart from barbed wire,metal posts and dustbins.
even when i left 10 yrs later stuff was still emerging !!

here, im lucky if i find a big stone....:D

it has piddled down here all day the sort that soaks you when you think "oh thats not too bad,i'll go out"....:o

ive sold one of my painted chairs its a start

yesterday i went to cranleigh in surrey to see some friends.. they had a barn sale...:j pure coincidence.....;)
got some nice whicker screens which seperate my work area [painting and miniature work] from rest of sun room and im well happy...perfick

thats the farm i got my 2 labs from nearly 13 years ago... took the mutts with me so was a fun afternoon.

glad you are well choille, sounds like yr house is coming on..
re combi microwavers.. they are usually quite high wattage. [remember im the EX wattage nerd/geek :rotfl: ] is not the calor gas stove a better option ? friends in surrey get big bomb shape cylinders that seem to last ages for thier cooker.
but you maybe have difficulty getting em delivered ?

Rummer

alfie_1 wrote: »

ive sold one of my painted chairs its a start

:j:j:j Woohoo! :j:j:j Just the start me thinks

Well the rain finally went off and I donned a pair of old gloves (sigh) and headed out into the garden so operation Dave is complete! I gave up on doing anything else today but all the wonderful things that can my way are tucked up safely

I will also get a few bits and pieces planted tonight while watching delightfully bad TV

lostinrates

Probably an Alfie question!


Ok, so I am going to spend a lot of money on making a BIG bottomless garden pot for .....

An olive tree..



We are thinking about buying a sheet or two of copper and making a sort of bottomless tub.

Is this realistic for people who have no idea what they are doing? The idea being that imperfection is what we are after?

Could we rol the top over to make a lip? And rivet the joins? It would have to be ' straight sides, but round, so we guess we'd be best insulating in side the 'pot' ?


Our theory is the older it gets the better it will look. ( in our world, where worse is better! )

These are new ones we like and are straight sided
http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/41z216pJPWL._SX300_.jpg

And old ones we love!
http://www.hollowaysgardenantiques.co.uk/media/full/antique-copper-planter-1062.jpg



So a hybrid of the two....could we do this? I have NO idea?

lostinrates

Hurrah chair sale!!!

Davesnave

To deal with a couple of questions first.:

We have a Panasonic Combi Cooker which works from a standard 13amp socket. The micro part is 1kw and I suspect the other two parts are similar. It's fine, but there's no turntable and I find its straightforward microwaving/re-heating is slow/uneven.

Lidl's living lettuce is a bargain! I've used it when I've forgotten to sow in time:o , with good results.

I only feed my peas muck and comfrey water CTC, but I suspect they could get a boost with a general fertilizer, like Growmore.

Those copper planters are very nice lir, but I'd not attempt anything like that myself. My olives are just in normal 10 - 15 litre plastic pots, but i may go for terracotta or stomeware eventually. Mine over-winter, on the very dry side, in the poly.

Davesnave

I've had a recurrence of the kidney stones thing, but not bad enough to go to casualty and certainly not on a Bank Holiday!:eek:

Instead, loads of cider vinegar and a lazy day.:o:p

We had the good weather until mid afternoon when some drizzle started.:( Then Pete arrived, cheerful as ever, with a lamb for the freezer and a pick-up full of logs. I'd been quite worried about him, but he said he was well, so I didn't want to probe too much......It's not like him to be absent for so long though.:think:

He still hadn't done the bill for the digger work and fencing last November. "Oh , b*gg*r, I'd forgotten that!" Well, hardly surprising! I expect he'll get round to it dreckly, which is when the next load of logs is arriving!:rotfl:

So, roast lamb tonight :drool:.....and the woodburner is on again!

lostinrates

Davesnave wrote: »

Those copper planters are very nice lir, but I'd not attempt anything like that myself. My olives are just in normal 10 - 15 litre plastic pots, but i may go for terracotta or stomeware eventually. Mine over-winter, on the very dry side, in the poly.

I, er, don't think we can find a pot big enough that we can afford


Its BIG.

We have tiny olives too, they over winter.....outside by the front door.

alfie_1

lostinrates wrote: »

I, er, don't think we can find a pot big enough that we can afford


Its BIG.

We have tiny olives too, they over winter.....outside by the front door.

what size overall pot are we talking here ??
does it HAVE to be copper ?
does it HAVE to be bottomless ?
is there room for negotiation re pot ?

:D:D

lostinrates

alfie_1 wrote: »

what size overall pot are we talking here ??
does it HAVE to be copper ?
does it HAVE to be bottomless ?
is there room for negotiation re pot ?

:D:D

It doesn't have to be copper, though it am quite keen on the ideA now.


It has to be bottom less I think, the olive guy said its by far the best way to grow them,

Room for negotiation indeed, has to be round and fit in the herb garden that's all really.

Um, size, I'm not sure, the olive will be here in a couple of weeks, I'll measure the out its in now which gives us a minimum width and height.


We're really pleased, its the type of olive form that grows where DH is from, not the sort one normally sees here, so it will make DH feel at home.

alfie_1

lostinrates wrote: »

It doesn't have to be copper, though it am quite keen on the ideA now.


It has to be bottom less I think, the olive guy said its by far the best way to grow them,

Room for negotiation indeed, has to be round and fit in the herb garden that's all really.

Um, size, I'm not sure, the olive will be here in a couple of weeks, I'll measure the out its in now which gives us a minimum width and height.


We're really pleased, its the type of olive form that grows where DH is from, not the sort one normally sees here, so it will make DH feel at home.

may have this wrong but i think olives dont need excessive space at top. they tend to have short solid roots not far reaching [outwards anyway] so enough to stabalise im guessing ...
what about height of pot ? will it be in a wind tunnel area ? stability?
what im thinking is ,if its gonna be bottomless then a pot half sunk in ground sounds more stable. so need TOTAL height ie 2ft up, 2ft down...:D:D

what about a big old iron round emmersion heater tank chopped top and bottom ?
now i may know of the whereabouts of one of those....;)