Nice People Thread Number 10 -the official residence of Nice People

Nikkster

Spirit wrote: »

What an honour. Congratulations.

Obviously it is because you are a Nice Man.

Or a sweet pea

Spirit_2

tomterm8 wrote: »

A beautiful day, if a little cold, used the billhook to chop down a fair amount of bramble. Caused lots of little cuts to my wrist when bit of bramble got lodged inside gauntlet gloves. Will have to avoid doctors for a while or they'll think they have a self-harmer patient.

Did I mention I hate bramble?




Courgettes are very easy, my secret recommendation is to buy in the plant already mostly grown from the garden centre. The extra few weeks makes a lot of extra crop. ALSO, lots of muck. They are very hungry.

For years my mother had a couple of large pots of runner beans by our back door... but it does take a deal of watering.

OH has a bill hook, and a petrol strimmer. You can take an educated guess at what he uses for the brambles.

Garden crops...Runner beans, courgettes, lettuces and tomatoes...easy and tasty. If you can use slug pellets, do. I cant and growing lettuce her is hopeless.

I love peas too... but they never come up:(

zagubov

neverdespairgirl wrote: »

Don't horses help, LIR? My sisters' nags eat soft new shoots, and keep the brambles in the hedgerows where they belong, for blackberries.

I'm always feeding ours to the stick insects at work. From which you can tell I don't have that many brambles.

Yorkie1

My brambles technique, if I intend to try to get them out (roots & all) is to chop them off about 1' from the ground - so that you've got a bit of leverage when extracting the roots.

The chopped off bits either get chopped up into small pieces as someone else said, so that you can get far more in the green wheelie bin or get them into the fire dustbin thingy (brain gone blank).

They do burn well once dry.

Fork or mattock / azada to get roots out.

Nikkster, I've got loads of courgette seeds - PM me if you'd like some for this year.

Spirit_2

My nephew and his wife and two babies visited today for lunch. Thye live in the west country and we had not seen them for a couple of years.

lostinrates

I don't think we have much chance of getting ours out of the ground in summer when we can get on the slopes top kill them. Certainly the banks of the cake are made out of clay, literally clay sub soil, to hold in the water, S its rock in summer.


Our plan ATM is to slash then spray new shoots. We didn't want to spray before, but I think its our only realistic chance now.

lostinrates

O,g spirit.

Omg.

vivatifosi

Crikey Spirit. Who would have thought that the wild east really is the wild west? Horrible. So sorry for them.

neverdespairgirl

I agree LIR - I'm similarly (almost) lost for words. A rare occurrence!

Nikkster

neverdespairgirl wrote: »

I agree LIR - I'm similarly (almost) lost for words. A rare occurrence!

Likewise. :eek:

I think I would have let them take the untaxed car though (assuming I could think straight enough to not just automatically say that it was untaxed).