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

silvercar

lostinrates wrote: »

I'd take a wager yours are fine men. .

Timely to call them men. DS2 is 20 today, so I no longer have any teenagers.

Spirit_2

silvercar wrote: »

Timely to call them men. DS2 is 20 today, so I no longer have any teenagers.

St David's day. Happy birthday DS2.

Is he home for the weekend so you can do cake, party and presents?

We have a tub of daffodils we can see from the kitchen window. As my husband tells me my welsh mother-in-law would have always had daffodils on this day.

Yorkie1

vivatifosi wrote: »

I love old fashioned garden flowers like bleeding heart. As long as they are not orange or bright yellow. Or dahlias. Or hyacinths.

I don't like dahlias because they contain earwigs. I don't like hyacinths because they look like old ladies' hats. Not that I'm opinionated you understand

I'm not keen on hyacinths either, and though I'd never thought of them in this way before, you are so right that they look like old ladies' hats :T

PasturesNew wrote: »

I'm not missing, I've got caught up on another site where I was trying to earn a few bob ..... not a great deal but every little helps when you're not making enough each month to even cover the rent

Glad to hear from you. I was going to post on here to ask if anyone had heard on you, but was working my way through the existing posts first

tomterm8 wrote: »

So, is it just poo? That might work. Although, they say to be wary of poo if growing veg due to some of the chemicals / medicines they feed horses ending up in the soil. *shrug*

The issue is the aminopyralid or clopyralid herbicdes which can be applied to grassland. They get into the manure and are toxic to certain types of veggies i.e. spuds, tomatoes, beans, courgettes (I think).

The chemicals were withdrawn for a year or two while their impact was investigated, but are now back on the market with more visible warnings on the containers to farmers about unsuitability for onward composting etc. Whether that will prevent the contamination for veggies occurring in future, who can tell ...

Yorkie1

LydiaJ wrote: »

Brilliant post. :rotfl:



I have one of those compost bins like everyone else's. If I use it as it seems to have been designed to be used, then it stinks and nothing rots properly. If I leave the lid off, however, everything seems to be much better - no smell that I notice, no clouds of insects, and much better rotting.



:A:T:A:T:A

I've got 3 dalek compost bins on the house / allotment and seem to be able to make them work OK except for when the old bean plants go in (which are very dry and don't like to rot down).

I throw stuff in fairly randomly and no smell or anything. You do need to be careful not to put too many grass clippings on at once, because that becomes a slimy anaerobic mess - and hence the smell.

You're supposed to turn the heaps to make them decompose more evenly and frequently, but I can never be bothered ...

lostinrates wrote: »

We've spent the morning moving pots and sweeping, I got tired a eleven, so opened the doors so I can keep sitting down. Garden really alive, some roses, wall flowers primula, crocus, peach blossoms......everywhere we look something.

That sounds lovely. What a picture :j

I have a couple of daffs where I can tell they will be in flower within a few days, but nothing else yet. It comes of being oop north, I suppose!

misskool wrote: »

We've been out to the garden and it's ok.

But we need some screening plants as we now realise quite how we're overlooked by a public car park. I suggested bamboo and he went invasive so we need a compromise.

Suggestions anyone?

Not all bamboo is invasive. What height plants do you want, and how deep is the border they will go into?

LydiaJ

Doozergirl wrote: »

I dared to try on the jeans I bought in the Jan sales for 'when I lose weight'.

They fit. I've dropped a dress size. There's a silver lining to every cloud.

:j:T

michaels wrote: »

Time to write the 'Tonsil Removal Diet'?

Years ago, I lost loads on the 'Wisdom teeth removal diet' and again a bit later on the 'Chickenpox diet'.

misskool

Yorkie1 wrote: »

I have a couple of daffs where I can tell they will be in flower within a few days, but nothing else yet. It comes of being oop north, I suppose!



Not all bamboo is invasive. What height plants do you want, and how deep is the border they will go into?

Daffs aren't flowering here yet too, we have a few buds but the bed they are in is sheltered north east next to an oak :rotfl:

There isn't a border there yet, it's currently the edge of the meadow (lawn would be too kind) and prefer 8 feet (not a problem that is end of east-facing bit so be ok). It's hard clay soil (at the moment it's marsh land) so that's more of a problem than the invasive ability.

lostinrates

I grow hyacinths ( which I also dislike) for my sil who loves them, they are her favourite flowers. The house stinks of their saccharine slightly rotting smell right now.

lostinrates

Yorkie1 wrote: »

Not all bamboo is invasive. What height plants do you want, and how deep is the border they will go into?

Indeed. Some are actually even reluctant. My father. Not a gardener usually, had a thing for bamboo, and a few other odd plants. His favourite was a non invasive black bamboo.

The specialist sellers online list a few non inside ones as well as some with such beautiful cane shapes I really feel tempted.

neverdespairgirl

lostinrates wrote: »

No, we don't. We have horses free ranging which is a perfect excuse to avoid any discussion over the matter, it is an incompatibility no one argues with.

My Dad won't let people shoot birds on my parents' land, or go on to it to drive the birds on to shootable fields. He says it's a refuge for birds.

PasturesNew wrote: »

I'm not missing, I've got caught up on another site where I was trying to earn a few bob ..... not a great deal but every little helps when you're not making enough each month to even cover the rent

Glad you're well and happy, PN!

Doozergirl wrote: »

I dared to try on the jeans I bought in the Jan sales for 'when I lose weight'.

They fit. I've dropped a dress size. There's a silver lining to every cloud.

Good thing too, it's been quite a cloud. How are you feeling now?

neverdespairgirl

lostinrates wrote: »

Isaac obviously has sweet and compassionate parents to have learned such kindness from. And a level head like his mother.

I do like the nice children.

( one day some one might post their nice child ate a guinea pig or something and shatter my illusions)

I did tell you about how interested he was when Yossie was eating a still-quivering rabbit in the kitchen in Kent, and how Isaac thought it was "cute". GBD then had the collywobbles about the photo showing cat and said rabbit.