Best wellyboot forward. Pips frugal edible garden adventures.

starnac

Moomin. I have a yard. All concrete! So if I can grow things you can. I have a row of fruit trees in pots on some decking made from pallets, a big garden waste bag that grows potatoes and a greenhouse which also houses various veg in pots. Then on the dining room window sill I have some chives and rosemary growing (again in pots). Oh and I have a rose bush too. That's the only non edible plant in my garden and we grow her as our tortoise will eat both the leaves and petals! :rotfl:

Start small with maybe some lettuce or some herbs on a windowsill and see how you go. In my garden, plants have two options, to survive or not! I'm not the gardener that Pippi is!

Cheery_Daff

Nor me, and I'm not particularly sympathetic to uncooperative plants either I'll plant you, and then it's your choice whether to grow or not - don't be expecting none of this namby pamby watering and feeding and bringing inside malarkey.

(Needless to say, I have a lot of dead plants...)



Tis pretty lively round here KC I love it, even if it's impossible to go to everything I want to!! Tis the Festival of the Mind at the minute (lots of university stuff which is really interesting), and the Off the Shelf festival of reading and writing in October, which always has some ace stuff going on And plenty of smaller things too!

Shame I've got to go to work really :rotfl:

rtandon27

Hi Pips!

All OK in Stripeyland?

XO
RT

starnac

RT get the kettle on I'm sure people will turn up when they hear it 'click'

Pippilongstocking

Hey you lot how you doing!

KC hope you're good thanks for the PM enjoy your weekend! And you're all right trying anything would be fun.

Sorry been away at conference for two days and then took the errant son back to uni. Just in time for the last of the summer visitors to set up camp and they're hear til sunday.

We've told our chums October is a 'naked month' and we're staying home alone. Given the weather I'd doubt we'll be naked but we'll see. Had such a lovely summer of visitors that its sad to see it finish but some time home alone would be lovely for a week or two

Suns out today. Visitors are awa' oot tae the golf and we've been into town, on the beach, to the recycling site and picked up some lovely cyclamen (mr m 66p) - **mr Aldi has a lot of reductions on store cupboard stuff like chinese oils (49p), sauces (19p), cocoa (bornville £1) and lots of nibbles, olives etc etc etc by us - from 19p to £1 worth a lookie..

Not caught up yet but Cheery that talk sounded great. Starnac that's the kettle on, I'm making my lunch and RT those cookies were delish.



Mooomin growing food can be easy enough. Depending on what you like to eat. I'm like Cheery I can't be !!!!ed (excuse me language) with plants that need pampered. What kind of things do you use over the winter - herbs like rosemary and sage/thyme might be a good place to start those green fingers off.

MM - Greta's sneaking in the girls house to lay her egg (caught her twice now, so I'm wondering if she's really as 'anti-chicken' as she appears. Whilst she's not really wanting to socialise she's being ever drawn to them........we'll see.

So now time for some grub and plan for the day. I've a report to write but the suns out.

Fleece and sandals here - I'm so in denial about the end of the summer.

Still harvesting courgettes/tomatoes/chilli's/herbs Must pop some of the tubs into the greenhouse to keep them going.



Hands up for soup.

Pippilongstocking

£21 to add to grocery spends. (But £11 of that was alcohol so I'm not sure that counts.

Petrol £25/ 25/9

Karmacat

You're welcome, pippi. I didn't realise your visitors were there already - have a lovely weekend with them, won't you.

Good news on Greta, and the sandals still and wow at you still managing chilis and whatnot - I managed a few last year, but this year has been about planting those potbound perennials when I can, and there's still a few to go. But I've marked out a space for planting garlic soon - I'm determined to do it this year!

Have fun

starnac

The magic draw of the boiling kettle works again :rotfl:

Pippilongstocking

Hey up lasses - passes round the egg sambo's to those who want.

KC I must get my veggie garden in soon - garlic of course! Down here you can plant that soon. well reminded. I've a ramshackle of pots of all sorts at the mo.

Its more chaos than pretty but hey its a garden lots of pot bound plants to go out here too.

Starnac - doesn't it always. what weekend plans folks.

I'm avoiding golf.........;)

starnac

Weekend plans?? Hmm :think: swimming lesson for DD tomorrow morning, harvest supper at church in the evening. (I love harvest ) Apart from that there's not much going on here.

Apart from avoiding the golf do you have any other plans? Or will that take up most of the weekend? :rotfl: