Best wellyboot forward. Pips frugal edible garden adventures.

rtandon27

Wow Pips - you are back & your thread is moving at quite the clip!!!

Managed to catch up though - loverly reading while sitting in the comfy chair in front of the heater resting after a long day in the big smoke!

Congrats on the new job & on being paid weekly!:j

Am LOVING all the talk about gardens & planting - mine is in sorry shape atm and is in need of some TLC! Pruning & weeding and general tidying are much required!:o

Pippilongstocking

Hey up me ducks.

Waves to all - let me get this out of my head first.

Planted
Shallot red sun
Single snow drops (stolen, erm I mean borrowed from my mothers garden) and a pot of doubles
Planted grape hyacinth (blue) around Eunoymous moved from veg garden
Moved three barrows bark
Got given Quince seeds fresh off the plant need to sow those.

Got given half a rotten fence for firewood.

Went to the big garden centre named after a house elf and looked about for ideas, only thing that really sprang out at me was perhaps oblesks for the raised beds. Will look online for those.

DD texted to ask if anything from ikea, so she's bringing home shelves for me on Friday, saves me a trip.

Picked up microwave from mother for DS

Dogs got a free dentastix, I got a free cuppa

All good.

Sending good vibes out in the universe.

Karmacat

And lots of good vibes to you too

I love grape hyacinth, and I love quince now too - the quince that was hiding under the ivy from next door has managed to produce 3 pots worth of quince jelly, which is lovely. Some more quince grew after that, and I've planted them in a big pot, we'll see if anything happens - you've planted seeds, haven't you? I wonder if I should dig mine up and get the seeds out of the plant, I only did it on Sunday ...

Lovely to hear that all's well, Pippi.

Pippilongstocking

I guess in nature KC the seeds would likely grow out of the rotted fruit or get skooted out of the other end of a bird, so why not leave yours and see what happens if you've a mind

I actually feel like I'm making progress on being happy KC, having had that awful dip last year, I'm pretty mindful I shouldn't push things but I do much better when the weather changes. I'm just no good with Nov/Dec/Jan I honestly think this year was bad (although there were other factors at play).

We had fish olives for tea which was basically value white frozen fish (MSC Sainsbugs) wrapped up in reduced smoked salmon (90p - good old Mr L) made up with a tomato and leek sauce, spinach in with the fish, if I say so myself it was lush. And cost under £1.50 baked in the rayburn so no fuel either

Two extra portions sploshed around some leftover pasta too so that's made another two meals for his lunch.

DHs lunch is made and the kitchen is hozed down. Dogs are snoring. They had fun adventuring today.

RT when you've had some really rubbish news or you get a bill, go out there and sort that garden done, great when you've some energy to burn off. Sounds like a crazy day for you, feet up lady.

Pippilongstocking

Good morning
So where was I, here we go.

Cheery thank you for the tayberry info - good to know hope you're good today, working or not?

Trog wowser that's a lot of fruit and cool things happening in your garden! What seeds have you started off.

Sorry you lost a post. And what exciting weekend plans for you all.

We're having fakemas in February, guess that's a bit orignial.

Date night kind got sucked into we're too tired night. So went off bargain hunting instead of cinema.

I have to say I bought nothing as the reductions were rubbish. Seems to be getting more and more like that.

Boo hiss.

Clutterbee

Hello, I am an old timer with a new name. I havent been around MSE for soooo long. just joined and headed straight to look for you. Looking forward to catching up.

Pippilongstocking

Good morning Cluterbee lovely to have you around again

Banks are checked and all good. I'm still using the wine money to pay for the odd treat. As I'm still not drinking anything really. Doesn't seem to be any more money about though, eh?

Today, a bit of work, a friend popping over, some free wood to snag and some gardening, and a bit of tidying.

have a good un.

starnac

Morning Pippi Sounds like a good day planned. Loving Fakemas in February. Just the thing to cheer up horrible February. I'm hoping to get out into the garden today. I want to measure the space where the greenhouse is to see what size we could fit there. Was going to do it yesterday but weather was awful. At least it's dry today

Karmacat

Pippilongstocking wrote: »

I guess in nature KC the seeds would likely grow out of the rotted fruit or get skooted out of the other end of a bird, so why not leave yours and see what happens if you've a mind

Thats what I thought after I'd written it! And if it doesn't turn out well, I can give it another go next year, with just the seeds. I have another big flowerpot experiment on the go too. I'd pruned a little tree in my garden (which I now know is a witchhazel) months ago, but I kept the prunings to stop cats weeing on a few places. Then last week the prunings flowered! So I tidied them a little and planted them too, we'll see. Would you like a witchhazel tree, so you can make your own witchhazel?

I actually feel like I'm making progress on being happy KC, having had that awful dip last year, I'm pretty mindful I shouldn't push things but I do much better when the weather changes.

I'm so glad to hear it, it was a terrible time for you

I'm just no good with Nov/Dec/Jan I honestly think this year was bad (although there were other factors at play).

I think there were tons of one-off factors in play, so this year was sort of bound to be bad But since you're now sure that winter's bad anyway, you probably need to look at ways of easing that annual down ... different lightbulbs, more focus on physical fitness, trips away, trips to special gardens/different gardens, is the National Garden Scheme operating up there? Trips to see the childerbeasts ... trips to see Wik. A trip to see me Fill it with things to actively look forward to :kisses3:a:grouphug:

We had fish olives for tea which was basically value white frozen fish (MSC Sainsbugs) wrapped up in reduced smoked salmon (90p - good old Mr L) made up with a tomato and leek sauce, spinach in with the fish, if I say so myself it was lush. And cost under £1.50 baked in the rayburn so no fuel either

It sounds lush :j I love having two protein sources together, its the lap of luxury. Amazing sauce too, kiddo :beer:

rtandon27

Karmacat wrote: »

...A trip to see me

Me too!:D:D:D

...or maybe both of us at the same time?:rotfl::rotfl::rotfl: