Daydream thread... without the rose-tinted specs

alfie_1

morning all..... RUMMER... ive found with brambles, ive cut down to about 1ft high and then weedkillered with the heavy duty bramble killer. it has to get into the roots. digging them up looks satisfying until new shoots appear from "bits" left behind

RAS

choille wrote: »

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I still haven't got it...have I?

choille

Could you put your photos on your blog, even briefly? Take them down later?

Davesnave

A tip from another MSE-er, is to make up glyphosate in a bucket, put the ends of the bramble fronds in that, leave for an hour or two and move on, repeating till you've done as many as you can.

He claims it works better. :cool:

If that's too difficult, Glove of Death: Cotton or woolly glove over thick rubber glove, mixture of glyphosate in bucket with wallpaper paste, put glove in mix and then gently run bramble frond through gloved hand, wiping mix onto leaves. N.B. You may eventually tear rubber glove and get glyphosate on your hand. If that bothers you, don't do this, or think of a similar method.........

I found eradicating brambles completely from the front bank took over 2 years. I used scorched earth tactics, zapping everything that grew there as soon as it was large enough to zap. i.e. when it had grown back to about 1'.

RAS

Another point on the glove of death; it pays to do this when you know that it is going to be dry for 48 hours. And a little bit of food colouring helps you see which bit you have done if you are doing a big area.

rozeepozee

choille wrote: »

I've been bad & filled the house build up with stuff I've 'found' cheap & yes I do have a sofa in there so I do go & sit there amidst the mess.

I do the same! I have tried to lay off buying stuff as we still have glossing to do and carpets to lay.

The last couple of weeks have been jam packed with the electrician coming back and the central heating people installing their equipment. The domestic plumber is on holiday and won't be back til september. Time drags on.....

rozeepozee

We are starting to build community here. It's lovely. We have great neighbours, they get on fabulously with the kids (retired wannabee-grandparents ), and there's lots of mutual exchanges of things (trailer, power tools, eggs and veggies), as well as social get togethers and days out.

I also have a good friend who is a mum with kids the same age as our's who go to the same school. Then there's a couple who moved up here five years ago and have five acres with poultry and goats. It's been three years since we moved here, and we are more concerned about quality not quantity

I need goats

Davesnave

rozeepozee wrote: »

We are starting to build community here. It's lovely.

It's pretty much essential too.

When the digger expired and the dumper refused to start on Saturday afternoon, we'd have been seriously stuffed, had it not been for a friend with a special jump starter and a local chap with a replacement digger. Taking lunch into consideration, we only lost an hour.

I've just spent 2 whole hours cursing the idiot who put a 4" fence post in so securely, it took that amount of time to break it free. :mad::mad::mad:

Guess who! :o:o

alfie_1

RAS wrote: »

Another point on the glove of death; it pays to do this when you know that it is going to be dry for 48 hours. And a little bit of food colouring helps you see which bit you have done if you are doing a big area.

what a brilliant idea.... food colouring ! that would help in a lot of situations

Davesnave

alfie_1 wrote: »

what a brilliant idea.... food colouring ! that would help in a lot of situations

Food colour works fine for small batches, but it doesn't work in the sprayer. For that, a specialist dye is needed, costing about £25 /litre! :eek:

A litre goes a very long way, and it's certainly worth it when spot spraying in a big area, like a field when working out what you've already done is otherwise difficult.

Simply had to do some watering this pm. Now it looks as if it'll throw it down!

Seven loads of logs safely in for the winter, though only 5 stacked. There's another few loads waiting to be cut too, all of which is 2 years old at least. At last, I feel we might get through with decent fuel this time.

alfie_1

my friend had some tree's felled last winter and they were stacked in 2-3ft lengths. she decided to get a large open fronted woodshed built [now aprox 10ft deep x 14ft wide and 7-8ft high.] unbenown to her, her husband altered the original measurements to lad building it.... she never noticed till ,when it was finished ,his landy fitted very snuggly in one side....:p.:D:D .. fortunately i can get wood from her as they have loads of it... but in a doubleglazed, centrally heated house now... im not sure if i will light a fire whereas at old house it was obligatory :eek: :rotfl: