Daydream fund challenge part 4

lostinrates

choille wrote: »

Roast pork for tea, just going in. Not even four quid for a shoulder that'll do us about three days gluttony. Parsnips & carrots & lovely tatties Mmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm.
Food is so impt at this time of year.

That sounds lovely. I just had some rice and aubergine chutney today. Maybe that's where I am going wrong:rotfl:.

choille

LIR - You need more to eat than that....no? You have that gorgeous fridge just groaning with food....

ukmaggie45

CTC, not sure if you know about Higgledy Garden? Lots of good information about growing a cut flower garden, including detailed info on how to grow his stuff from seed. I've got seed from him, it arrived super fast and in lovely hand labelled packets (this was last year, so not sure if it still comes in the hand labelled stuff), but with everything being too much last year we didn't plant stuff. Other than the Honeywort which did amazingly well both at lottie and in pot outside front door (though it died there when we were away in August due to not getting watered which isn't Higgledy's fault but ours). The bees at the lottie absolutely loved it, covered with them! And it grew HUGE, about the height quoted in articles, but at least double the width!

My friend Lynne had great success with his seed last year.

lostinrates

choille wrote: »

LIR - You need more to eat than that....no? You have that gorgeous fridge just groaning with food....

It groans with options for chutneys, pickles and preserves. Not really food except at weekends and social gatherings or holidays .

I have a curse, I am blessed like a Shetland pony. What I eat becomes flab instantly ( part of my health situation) many days I eat nothing or take calories as milk on tea/ coffee. Some days I eat normally, cake even , but they have to mean something. I take pills for vitamins and minerals and have sporadic monitoring for health. ( in fact spoke to GP today and agreed we needed another full screen). I mainly, but not always, save my calories for the weekend to eat with fir.

lostinrates

Cerinthe which I didn't know was called honey wort, is a plant I adore. For some reason its not taking off here. I wonder if chickens like it. Its usually rampant. En masse its magical, almost colours the air above it.

Davesnave

lostinrates wrote: »

Cerinthe which I didn't know was called honey wort, is a plant I adore. For some reason its not taking off here.

Self seeds in the gravel here and travels a bit, but I'd be wary of feeding it to chooks, as it looks slightly alien, though it might well be harmless.

Give it time. Ours took a while before re-appearing reliably.

choille

I don't know how you have any energy LIR living on gerkins & the like......

Flab is okay in Winter. You need a bit of fat on yer bones. Well....that's what I keep telling myself.......

That honey wort is gorgeous would look god with a lime green/acid yellow colour.

lostinrates

choille wrote: »

I don't know how you have any energy LIR living on gerkins & the like......

Flab is okay in Winter. You need a bit of fat on yer bones. Well....that's what I keep telling myself.......

That honey wort is gorgeous would look god with a lime green/acid yellow colour.

I don't have any energy!!!! That's the problem. My body converts fuel to flab not energy at all. I'm slightly more energetic if I don't eat, but not much.


Yes, imagine with euphorbia! And ladies mantle.. It also works well with pinks......takes the girly ness out of a pink bed a bit, and I am thinking of introducing it in the white border to de bland it.

choille

Oh, goodness LIR - what can you do about it?

alfie_1

i can bear witness to the jams/chutneys etc LIR has..... my sister and mother covetted the ones she gave me at salisbury show that day... the "xmas" one was devoured and swooned over whilst the plum? one ended its days on my mothers kitchen table ... they were hi jacked !:D i think that what lir DOES eat is far healthier than my diet in a week ! im an ifilikeitieatit'aholic :rotfl: and LIR's cake'ies are top of my list :D