Best wellyboot forward. Pips frugal edible garden adventures.

Pippilongstocking

morning lands - off to the coal face - spent a bit in petrol (£25) and dinner out with DD (£30).

Have a good un

starnac

That desk is amazing!! I love it. :heart2:

I'm just catching up so I agree with the statement "just because I'm awake doesn't mean I have to be working" I struggle with this too.

Another PhD Pippi?? You are brave to be looking.

Yay to having DS home even if you are just flinging food at him :rotfl:

Pippilongstocking

Its all good starnac - DD is off to the land of green grass and shamrocks with her b/f ds is still working on his results.

Teas on and lots of reduced bargains at the coop for the cupobards

including shampoo, conditioner, crisps, mayo, stock gel things, soup rice and milk.

Work meeting in a bit so doing the last bit of reporting.

All the desks I'm stalking have said I can use a courier so I'm down to a choice of three.

Flat money going into bank tomorrow.

9 hours at the garden. Man it was cold. Looks like we've dispatched over 150000 snowdrops and allies this season

starnac

That's a lot of snowdrops!! :eek:

And yay to flat money hitting bank tomorrow. You should screenshot the balance so you can pretend that's your normal balance and you are mega rich :rotfl:

Pippilongstocking

starnac wrote: »

That's a lot of snowdrops!! :eek:

And yay to flat money hitting bank tomorrow. You should screenshot the balance so you can pretend that's your normal balance and you are mega rich :rotfl:

:D:D:D:D:D:D:D:D:D:D:D:D:D

I will tell him that.

Hope you and yours are fabby me dear.

1 hour wombles done and a phone meeting at 7.30pm
1/4 hour beach clean spreadsheeting done too

Hmm awake and working - seem to not be paying attention to that much.

Tea is bubbling away we're having mince and tatties.

Pippilongstocking

ok make that two hours of wombles. hmm I need a rest now.

starnac

Pippilongstocking wrote: »

Hmm awake and working - seem to not be paying attention to that much.

I tend not to either. If I find myself sitting down, my mind makes a list of all the things I should be doing instead :eek:

starnac

PS I forgot to agree to the second half of April being the best time to have off.

Well..... by "second half" I mean "the middle" part

milasavesmoney

I'm planting leeks for the first time and have about 15 starts. I'm also going to seed directly in my garden. I live in a hot dry climate and was thinking of planting them where they will get morning sun and some afternoon shade. Any tips for me as to what they like? We have composted really well in this new garden bed. Leeks are very expensive here (US) and I'm hoping I can manage to grow them. My husband loves to water, so that's not an issue. As onions do well here, I'm hoping leeks will also.

Love your blog!

Pippilongstocking

milasavesmoney wrote: »

I'm planting leeks for the first time and have about 15 starts. I'm also going to seed directly in my garden. I live in a hot dry climate and was thinking of planting them where they will get morning sun and some afternoon shade. Any tips for me as to what they like? We have composted really well in this new garden bed. Leeks are very expensive here (US) and I'm hoping I can manage to grow them. My husband loves to water, so that's not an issue. As onions do well here, I'm hoping leeks will also.

Love your blog!

They like almost exactly what your onions like so I think early sun late shade is good and plenty feed rich soil. They're hungey monkeys.

I dib them in with a brush handle quite deep and if you want white stems you can use tubes/build them up to increase the green flesh which is probably a good idea if its very sunny/dry with you.

Recycled plastic tubes are good but I think toilet roll holders make the perfect size they decompose and they also keep the leek white. Kitchen roll tubes are ace too. But a wrapped up newspaper into a tube (like a kids pretend telescope) does just the same thing.

Goodluck.

And Starnac you're right - mid-late april all good.

Runs to work a bit late.