Daydream fund challenge part 4

I_have_spoken

Just been having a scout around outside and found the rear drain grate was covered by moss etc. washed down from the roof, so there was a pond creeping across the patio with the overflow spouts all pouring water from the top beds. Cleared with a lot of gurgling!

Luckily the bay shrubs in pots were wrapped in their fleece covers yesterday, so avoiding getting thrashed about by the wind/rain.

COOLTRIKERCHICK

Alfie, that would be fab!!! don't need a lot, just enough to squash the seeds into/under/onto the branches. and then fingers crossed it will take...


will pm you my addy..


3 of our piglets were verbally sold to someone local a few weeks back, and they have phoned, they wanted them before Christmas, but I think next weekend will be better..


even though we will still have some piglets left to take to market in the new year, I will miss the ones that are going..


bring on the next piggy litters in a few months...


Davesnave... how long do you think your building work is going to take??

Davesnave

COOLTRIKERCHICK wrote: »

Davesnave... how long do you think your building work is going to take??

The building work could all be done by Midsummer's Day, but other aspects of the refurb may hold up the building.

For example, we can't close the stud walls till the electrics and pipework go in.

Then there's the weather. We don't want to work on the roof before April.

Finally, the builder himself needs time off to attend to other customers.

Of course if we had a big firm doing this, they'd have their subbies for sparks, pipes and plaster, so they'd just call them in, as and when. We have to do more waiting around.

To be honest, if it's all done this time next year, I'll be amazed!

ukmaggie45

Hey CTC, you might find this blog of interest.

We went to the lottie yesterday to check it over to make sure it'll be happy till New Year. Not been down there since the end of November, as OH has had a really horrid chest infection, seems to have cleared now after the second lot of anti-biotics. So I was worried we'd find the tunnels had blown away, or the chairs had been blown onto the next plot and wrecked their stuff. We found most of our chairs had blown over, so we re-sited them to by the shed where it's a tad more sheltered. Some of the onion tunnels needed a bit of attention too, nothing much, just the ends had blown inside, and were lying over some of the onion shoots. Easily sorted with a few bricks. Glad we went down to check though. We were the only people there, and it was definitely chilly and blowy, so we didn't hang around.

alfie_1

CTC... after reading maggies link, i may as well send the mistletoe to you after xmas ? im assuming the longer its on the host to nearer to planting time [spring] all the better but i will fit in with you if you want it sooner

COOLTRIKERCHICK

alfie_1 wrote: »

CTC... after reading maggies link, i may as well send the mistletoe to you after xmas ? im assuming the longer its on the host to nearer to planting time [spring] all the better but i will fit in with you if you want it sooner

thanks for doing the link Maggie....


Aflie, yep leave it until after Christmas, and then you can send it to works addy, which I will pm you with.


wonder if it is worth them 'spouting' their suckers before me plonking them on the tree..

alfie_1

COOLTRIKERCHICK wrote: »

thanks for doing the link Maggie....


Aflie, yep leave it until after Christmas, and then you can send it to works addy, which I will pm you with.


wonder if it is worth them 'spouting' their suckers before me plonking them on the tree..

try allways then you get better odds

RAS

ukmaggie45 wrote: »

So I was worried we'd find the tunnels had blown away, or the chairs had been blown onto the next plot and wrecked their stuff. We found most of our chairs had blown over, so we re-sited them to by the shed where it's a tad more sheltered.

I saw the flying poly-tunnel yesterday. It has been retrieved from the garden 50 metres away where it pitched up last time we had high winds. The owners (new plotters) were not convinced by everyones' suggestions re nailing it down.

They are now but the frame looks very much worse for wear. How it did not take out half a dozen greenhouses en route, I do not know but it leapt a 1.5 metre fence on a bank without a problem!

alfie_1

reminds me of the storms in late 80's... i had a big alluminium workmans bender shed [aquired and quickly painted green !;) ] in my field for my cob and donkey. i went to check them and couldnt believe my eyes... shed gone ? i looked around me like an idiot and as far as the eye could see... no shed ? i was dumfounded! i rang council incase theyde "picked it up" ... nope! so i made a big sign , hung it on fence, for sightings 2 days later a gaggle of kids told me theyd found it :j IN THE MIDDLE OF A NEARBY WOOD :eek: . it had cleared 2 fields, and must have been a height cos it was plonked down IN the woods ? thank goodness it went in that direction tho as opposite direction was a row of houses...:o it took 6 of us to weave our way out of the wood, then on a trailer, up a lane and round to the field. staked and roped it down then....:rotfl:

ukmaggie45

RAS wrote: »

I saw the flying poly-tunnel yesterday. It has been retrieved from the garden 50 metres away where it pitched up last time we had high winds. The owners (new plotters) were not convinced by everyones' suggestions re nailing it down.

They are now but the frame looks very much worse for wear. How it did not take out half a dozen greenhouses en route, I do not know but it leapt a 1.5 metre fence on a bank without a problem!

Oh dear! :eek: Our's aren't poly-tunnels (well one is, but it's only about 2 foot tall). The others are a mix of green mesh and insect mesh, some 2 foot, and some about 2 foot 6. Only there to stop the pigeons twitching the onions out as they begin to grow. Once there's a decent root system in place (March maybe?) we'll take them down and use them elsewhere on plot to keep the flying rotters off. The poly one might do to start early salad too. We didn't bother covering the garlic, as it's buried so much deeper, so will have plenty root system by time it emerges. I hope!

Next year I must take more frequent photos of the plot.