Daydream thread... without the rose-tinted specs

lostinrates

Davesnave wrote: »

No, your gardener should understand it's your garden, and that in the course of managing it, you may take it upon yourself to do x or y, either as 'help' for them, or pleasure for you.

Which it is doesn't matter.

They are there to make the garden manageable, not to do it all for you.

He's just doing the bed building. Not here to stay, or do anything planty. . He looks at the garden and sighs a lot though :rotfl:


The idea was it would be quicker and easier to have some one in.

I think its going to be a vastly superior result but for would have finished ages ago.

Davesnave

Leycesteria is a plant seller's dream.

I used to sow seed from the local recreation ground, let the plants come up, then cram them tightly into a pot. The plants would stay in that pot for a few years. As I needed a few, I'd lift them out and re-pot individually.

The squashed plants stayed fairly dwarf and the re-potted ones soon surged away, giving me saleable shrubs in a matter of months.

lostinrates

Omg.


We just ate CTC bacon. ( with tomatoes and fresh cheese in a baguette).

Oh my goodness. Oh my goodness. That is VERY good bacon. VERY VERY good bacon.

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Davesnave

lostinrates wrote: »

He's just doing the bed building. Not here to stay, or do anything planty. . He looks at the garden and sighs a lot though :rotfl:

Ah, a garden landscaper. We have one of those in the village. I think he's responsible for the, er, patio thing outside our back doors.....under which another load of rubbish is buried.:mad:

We're lucky. A friend had him do some work this summer. It wasn't quite finished. In fact the granite chippings agreed never materialised and about 5 tonnes of earth remain piled at the side of her drive. :eek:

I recommend a written contract.

lostinrates

Oh dear.

Fir went of the boil with poo shovelling and went strimming instead. Its very heavy atmosphere, not muggy because its too cool, but still sitting heavy. DH got the worst of the front 'wild flower/weed bed' cut back so that its more wild flowers. Well, borage with the odd flash of something else. The bees love it.

Now he's on a saxophone break.

COOLTRIKERCHICK

lostinrates wrote: »

Omg.


We just ate CTC bacon. ( with tomatoes and fresh cheese in a baguette).

Oh my goodness. Oh my goodness. That is VERY good bacon. VERY VERY good bacon.

.[/QUOT


nice aint it!!!


I haven't bought bacon since, even though we run out ages ago, I will not eat bacon until our next lot is done..

Davesnave

They threatened us with rain by 3pm. It's arriving now, but I don't care, now all the main lawns are cut.:p

As Mr Dog went out and gave us dog noise until he returned at three, I did a grand finale up there for an hour with the brushcutter. By then, I'd strimmed everything twice....:rotfl:

Davesnave

Here is our friend's barrel chicken house. I'm sorry the perches aren't quite level, but the four (small) chickens don't go in there during the day except to lay, which is what the modified plastic trug is for!


There are holes drilled in the cover and the other end for ventilation + a couple underneath to drain it when it's washed-out.

lostinrates

alfie_1

hi all. my poor mum had a fall this morning. i went to fetch her to visit dad and found her in a right old state. very swollen face, black eyes, split by eye, bleeding nose and concussion. thank goodness id arranged to be there.. called 999 and she's now in hospital . son went in ambulance and i followed. iv just got home . shes having scans etc but out of it on pain relief. i will go back this evening if the hospital think it merits it. she had such a lovely day yesterday too..