Best wellyboot forward. Pips frugal edible garden adventures.

Greying_Pilgrim

Karmacat wrote: »

You're so good with your hands, Pippi, I bet you could repurpose something and it'd be as good as bought-in staging

I wholeheartedly concur with Karmacat - you'll make something happen Pippi

I've pm'd ya.

Greying x

troglodyte

Pippi the garden sounds as though it's progressing in leaps and bounds! Any chance of any second-hand staging or anything of a similar height you could adapt?
On the log front, are there any tree surgeons thereabouts? They have to pay to dispose of commercial waste so may be happy do drop off wood for you if they are local.


RT the exploding wine sounds a big dramatic. I had that happen once with a batch of home-made elderflower champagne (had to mop the ceiling!) but you don't expect it from the commercial stuff!


Cheery tell us more about the house idea!


Garlic update - right after I said that mine didn't seem to be doing anything, it appeared and shots are now a couple of inches high, so definite progress there!


Potatoes - does anyone have any experience with the blight-resistant varieties?

Pippilongstocking

Hey there chaps so sorry not been about I'm stuffed with the cold.

Trog - Sarpo varieties (axona and mira) are supposed to be fabulous, we've had a few talks about them. And Ms Flowers thinks so too here. Growing earlies can be good as they are harvested before blight strikes.

Other good varieties are

Orla
cara
kestrel
Pentland varieties
Record

To name but a few. Goodluck and glad the garlic is going good.



I do have ample pallets and off to read greyings kind PM.



Waves hello!

Pippilongstocking

beanielou wrote: »

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THanks lovely hope you're good.

starnac wrote: »

How do you buy logs in "biscuits"? That wouldn't make good dunking!!! :rotfl:

Yay to invoices! Make sure you get them in. Which reminds me- I did an agency shift, must get my time sheet for that in today

Enjoy date night

I got a cold, yeuch, no date night for me.
Log biscuits are in sections, like a tree that's chopped down in sections, the sections are called biscuits. not much good for tea dunking.

Greying_Pilgrim wrote: »

I wholeheartedly concur with Karmacat - you'll make something happen Pippi

I've pm'd ya.

Greying x

:A mucho thank you lovely, I've PM'd you back.

Pippilongstocking

cazmanian_minx wrote: »

Have you got the space for a full 25 tonne load? Can give you a contact number - £750+delivery and it lasts us about 6/7 years of the woodburner being on nearly every day.

Unfortunately not. But if I ever do inherit more garden. I don't suppose you know of smaller loads, round here seems a tonne bag of ready chopped for about £50.

But thanks lovely. How life up north.

Pippilongstocking

rtandon27 wrote: »

Wow Pips you are back in fine form! I'm just tired reading what you are up to today!;)

I'm working from home - mostly uninterrupted peace and quiet - lovely to be able to form an entire thought without being interrupted!

Had some reduced posh foccacia for brunch - who pays £3 for a 300g loaf? We paid 90p and thought that was right pricey for a mark-down, but oh it was lovely fragrant with rosemary and olive oil!

We also had a score with MrW over an exploding bottle of (cheap) wine! OH opened it and it went everywhere! - wine is not supposed to do that! Had to clean down my walls - took the paint off! Smelt sour and had bubbles so we returned it & got a refund and a free replacement of equivalent value! Today we received £25 of vouchers from customer service with an acknowledgement that it might have been fermenting - though they deemed it to smell and taste just fine. Whomever tested it can't be a wine drinker - it was bubbly vinegar! So now we get to dream up what to spend the vouchers on - such an unexpected treat - OH wants more wine - I'd like posh ice-cream and steak (not together mind you) - reality is we'll eek it out on red-sticker bargains and cupboard staples - we know how to live it up - eh?:D

Now that's exactly what I'd do :rotfl::rotfl::rotfl: we do know how to be good to each other eh?

Sorry you had to clean up though, I do wonder if htey should have sent round a squad to clean up for you.

Free house clean, I'd vote for that.

Pippilongstocking

Waves a feeble hello, I'm poorly sick with girl-man-flu (cold) and dosing up on meds as working Mon/Tues in garden. No show, no pay, ah the joys of self-employment eh?

Been snuffling all weekend, NOT COOL.

Himself and I went off adventuring (hankie in hand) on saturday to look for our first together car, one of those van/car jobs which deals nicely with pallets, wood, garden stuff, ski's, bikes and general tent clobber.

lots of research and a decent deal sees us picking something up this week.

My car going into the 'family' car pool, the new car going into the pool too.

Sharing is good after all eh.

I think I'm liking this being in the same house and saving lots on not travelling etc malarkey.

beanielou

I am just at the tail end of the lurgy.
Hope yours is away soon.
Happy new car :j

Karmacat

Sorry you're lurgified, Pippi (beanie too, poor thing) ... its never nice.

And you have a car? A new-to-you one? Excellent news! Plus of course not having to travel to see TRG

Pippilongstocking

Oh Beanie I hope it doesn't last long and hugs to you.

KC - tis a new to us car and out of the bigger budget that I don't belong to so its a win win for me. I put my car in the pool too so I'm contributing capital

Its like my old berlingo, much loved and filled full to bursting with stuff.

Love those kind of cars.