Best wellyboot forward. Pips frugal edible garden adventures.

Karmacat

Thank you Pippi :j I shall get them in the ground tomorrow, I promise - I'd done a sort of bed for them at the end of the garden, weeded it, lots and lots of fresh compost, and whats more I covered it with branches pruned from this that and the other so the cats wouldn't wee in it

Thats a great haul with the snowdrops, nice one I have some at the side of the house, I go out there every day to watch them

Enjoy your spag bog - and your tayberry :j

Pippilongstocking

Morning chaps just done hens including finding out where the clever hen was escaping, climbing up along the wall then jumping back in. Don't let anyone tell you hens aren't clever.

Porridge here, I've just tried the pour hot water on it and leave it method of making it and wow it works.

Time to make a plan for today.

Collecting microwave from parent later, so a trip over the water for me (bridge, no ferry required). And there's a great place to snag free wood there so I'm going early.

Work to do couple hours paid.

Dogs to walk

Plants to plant, just the usual.

I'm trying to fill the paths around the veg garden with woodchip from the garden which means clearing areas for future beds. Think its best to use what I've got rather than buy new.

I do however need some greenhouse staging.......off to trawl the internet and see if ikea has anything that might also do.

Morning to you all.

starnac

Morning Pippi. I'm loving the garden update. My stepdad keeps ringing me saying "I've started your tomatoes/peppers/do you like aubergine" so it had to be planting time :rotfl: Our greenhouse has a plastic cover which was ripped by the winds while we were away in DLP so he is starting our plants off for us this year.

DD loved the hen picture on FB yesterday. She always asks after them

Pippilongstocking

Morning lovely.

I'm glad she found the hen photo a nice one, how they''ve come on. You can tell her Greta has been climbing up the back of the hen run and walking along the wall to get to the kitchen door. Quite a madam!

I'm looking at my seeds in a mo to see what i can start, I'm probably growing bush tomatoes again, I love how easy they are, but they need started soon!! You Dads on the case. Sorry to hear about the greenhouse, I saw some of the pound shop type places were doing replacement covers.......my chillies are in the conservatory and in a sorry state but they'll get there I think. We've lost one, but the rest look like they've weathered the temps in there.

Goodluck with those. Anything fun on today?

We've got date night later, and the kids home this weekend. First weekend ever they'll both be here I'm stupidly excited.

Boxed up last nights extra teas for DH lunches. All good.

starnac

Thanks for the heads up for the replacement covers. We had looked but found it was dearer to buy a replacement cover than it was to buy a new greenhouse. This is the second plastic cover to have ripped so we are keeping our eyes out for a glass greenhouse going cheap/free. DH is more than willing to dismantle someone else's greenhouse if we can have it for free

As for fun today. Rain stopped play so we are doing indoor things before going to a cafe for lunch. It's a church run cafe staffed with volunteers so very cheap. I probably won't spend more than £6 for the 3 of us to eat with drinks and probably ice cream for the kiddies too. :money:

Date night sounds fun as does having both kiddies home for the weekend. :T

Karmacat

You two are having a ball, it sounds lovely! Pippi, you must be so excited to have both of them home this weekend, how gorgeous

Woodchip in the garden - I swear by it! I managed to get some down in the garden last year, and its made a big difference to the non-weeding

Pippilongstocking

I'll send the sun down starnac! And enjoy the cafe, sounds bargainous.

KC - there is tonnes of it here in this garden they had lots of it down to bark so I've been moving it around since I arrived to cover areas I've cleared too. Not too many weeds, just the usual nettles and creeping buttercup, the odd patch of gallium (sticky bill)

I'm stupidly excited. Its the small things eh. All of us being under the same roof for a while will be lovely, then I'm sure they'll drive me crazy and need to leave

Karmacat

Then you've got your own ready made, so to speak? Even better! Mine comes from the DIY store - I do try to break up little stuff, and if my hands are strong, chop up a bit of the bigger stuff, but not much, not really. Still, I'll do what I can Off out for a walkies now

troglodyte

I wrote a long post earlier and then the page froze and I couldn't do anything and eventually lost it all, botheration


I have a lot of seeds, bought reduced at the end of last season. We also have lots of fruit (5 apple trees, a plum plus two new ones planted last autumn, a pear, a greengage, a double row of raspberries, a hedge of jostaberries, a loganberry, several gooseberries and blackcurrants, a redcurrant and a blueberry that hasn't done a lot yet). Usually we haven't eaten it all by the following summer. Time and space is now the problem!


The girls (chooks) do forage around the garden for greenery and they look in great shape and have laid all through the winter at a reduced rate, so it's even more of a shame that half of that effort has been wasted. I wonder if the low light does affect them - reduced vitamin D affecting calcium metabolism? I'll have to look into that.


Your girls look in fine form Pippi, and you are making great progress in the garden. And your workplace looks lovely. I know I've heard of it but have never been, will put it on the schedule next time we head that way!


Sounds like an exciting weekend ahead, hope you have a lovely time!

Cheery_Daff

Ooh, date night and then both kids home for the weekend? What luxury! Have a good time

Good snowdrop news! :j :j

Tayberries are great I knew someone who grew them, they're HUGE :j and make great jam