Daydream thread... without the rose-tinted specs

lostinrates

I often wonder how itsme is.

COOLTRIKERCHICK

lostinrates wrote: »

I often wonder how itsme is.

me too LIR... I miss her weather reports lol...


I miss Rhiwie too, but I know Mr & mrs Rhiwie are ok,


right been back home to have a bath and wash my clothes on a quick wash, and spend some time with the cats... as I do miss them when I am up the ranch... right better get back up the ranch on maternity duties lol..

Rummer

I miss them both too

Rummer

I have been cleaning and scrubbing for hours and I feel as if I have hardly achieved anything :eek: How does a home get so messy??

My plan today was to get some planting done in the garden however chores have sucked all my time away (again) so I am going to have to try and factor garden time in tomorrow. Hopefully if it is dry them Rumlet can play on the grass and I can sneakily plant my bulbs

It would be so lovely to have someone to do all these day to day tasks so that I could just have fun :rotfl:

lostinrates

Here Otis cleaning up after flies rummer. We now have an infestation of autumn flies, because the cows are coming in at nights and calving but the weather is still so nice. .

We really get on with our neighbours but we are going to have to talk to them about some sort of control next year. Seriously biblical in the kitchen.

I EXPECT flies in a farm kitchen, really I do, and I think its our job to make effort to control things, ( which we do ) but this morning was just ridiculous. Last week I cleaned every bloody wall in the room and today I have to do it, all the windows and all the surfaces again......fly spotting every where. Again, surfaces daily, fair enough, but the walls are just .....no good.

I'm thinking of going to buy some pots of basil and trying them?

Out side we have woodruff, rosemary, lavender, basil, all the things meant to be effective to help a little!!


Next year I'm trying tansy and feverfew too.

lostinrates

I have a self seeded tomato growing in the back garden. Just noticed it a couple of weeks ago. I feel ridiculously sentimental over this ad we grew none this year. Its flowering now.

Kind of tempted to try potting it up and popping it in the Cheese room where its warm and sunny.

I_have_spoken

I've got several plants with markedly yellowing leaves but all from different genus - phlox, ferns and sweet box (Sarcococca confusa).

Soil is clay to which I've added chicken manure pellets and blood/fish/bone to a greater or lesser amount

I am going to give a foliar feed with Epsom Salts.

Anyone with ideas on what might be lacking?

lostinrates

No, but I just cannot grow sweet box here, and I like it so that annoys me.

We had yellow leaves last year and suspected magnesium ......seemed to right it.

alfie_1

LIR & CTC.... ive PM'd you

Davesnave

lostinrates wrote: »

No, but I just cannot grow sweet box here, and I like it so that annoys me.

We had yellow leaves last year and suspected magnesium ......seemed to right it.

I used to grow sweet box in pots with no problems at all when I was living near you. Here, they struggle in the ground and are impossible in pots.

Definitely try Epsom Salts, IHS. I used to use it when I was on clay.

Fly problems here increase as soon as the swallows and house martins depart, which they've done now.:(:(

In another month or so the flies will try to hibernate in the van. I will then bump them off. It's the same every year.