Daydream fund challenge part 4

phoebe1989seb

Blimey choille, how terrible - thank goodness you and your DH are ok :eek: Hope you've recovered from the scare and have been able to relax a bit this evening {{{Hugs}}} to you......

Decided to make a start on the mowing this afternoon in the end as rain is forecast for Sunday & Monday. Managed to get all of the upper lawn cut and around a third of the lower one.....looks so much better and you can see the formerly picturesque garden starting to take shape again

Have only skim-read the many posts since I was around earlier as we got back late from the M R James performance (which was fab as usual!), had some supper and now feel exhausted so am heading off to bed. Will catch up properly tomorrow

Night folks x

COOLTRIKERCHICK

morning all,


well the nice weather we had yesterday afternoon, is well and truly gone... piddling it down this morning...


was going to make a start up on the new garden plot up the ranch, get a load of rhubarb crowns in that I split up last year, and just put them into pots until I knew where I was going to put them, if I think Luceille and one of them..


so it looks as though its indoor stuff to be done today, more cleaning and sorting then.. (booooo)

I_have_spoken

Crazy heavy rain with me in the early hours, big wet patch on conservatory floor where it found a way in. Plus a gale predicted for Tue night, Spring keeps being deferred

Am thinking how best to protect the flowers on the iris reticulata, would be shame to lose them to the weather.

ferretkeeper

Yes raining here too, though not enough to need full waterproof attire :T

I decided to forego my first morning cuppa and get straight out so I can come in, get dry and stay that way til it stops raining

Had another nice surprise, another litter of piglets born, which I wasn't exactly expecting today but I'll take it as I find it It's a small litter, another first time mum.

but in all honesty, and like growing veg, little and often is more useful than a deluge - It'll be helpful come finishing time, I'll have a steady supply of pigs ready over a period of time rather than all at once.

Choille I hope you've been able to calm down since last night, what an awful thing to have to deal with. It's the sort of thing that happens so easily when we're busy, I'm just thankful it wasn't as bad as it could have been and you're all ok. :grouphug:

On a brighter note, I got my seed order in last night, well part of it anyway! And I've got a few plants I want to send for too, so I'd better get my butt in hear the next few days and be ready for it all turning up.

I had a peek round the garden and in pots, and pleasingly everything seems to have come through the winter, even things I didn't expect like the French lavender...I think the key has been the drier weather, a wet winter would have seen it off.

And Dave, I thought of you yesterday when I saw some dogwoods where I parked my car, cursed that I didn't have anything to take cuttings with, then noticed they'd just been 'pruned' and loads of bits had been left on the ground :T

I've got loads of bits, they might not all take, and they need a tidy up but I'll get them sorted today, along with the last of my willow harvesting and planting forays!

Right, back to that cuppa!

lucielle

COOLTRIKERCHICK wrote: »

morning all,


well the nice weather we had yesterday afternoon, is well and truly gone... piddling it down this morning...


was going to make a start up on the new garden plot up the ranch, get a load of rhubarb crowns in that I split up last year, and just put them into pots until I knew where I was going to put them, if I think Luceille and one of them..


so it looks as though its indoor stuff to be done today, more cleaning and sorting then.. (booooo)

Hi CTC yes I did get one of your crowns........and it was doing really well until the hens decided to help. I didn't think they'd touch it, as I thought the leaves were toxic.


L

COOLTRIKERCHICK

LOL.. YES I think they are Luceille, your chooks must have asbestos stomachs then, or they had the squits lol..


if you want another one let me know pm me your addy, and I can pop another on in the post to you tomorrow..


I had just wrote a lovely long post re- pigs etc and I lost it... aghhh! ! !


FK... congrats on the litter/farrow, how many did she have?? have you still got those 3 tamworths you bought at the smallholder show for breeding stock?? pictures???


we have one sow due very soon, and we have a sow that has been in with the boar for a few weeks now, so fingers crossed she has caught.. he is such a fab boar, we struck it lucky when we bought him when he was younger.. he is so nice and gentle, not like some of the nutters around lol..


we have sold most of all the youngsters we have bred, and grown on, as we will prob buy in a sow or two, if we see a nice youngster we like.. that we think will suit our boar..


we had some lovely compliments about our boars that we sold on Friday, about the length on them.. lovely long pigs, If they had been females, I am sure we would have had a really good price for them..


its all about the length and chunky bums...for us, and this is what we are trying to achieve when we are breeding, even though they are crosses...


Fk.. sorry ment to ask, if hubby's job ok? wasn't his contract due to end? was it re-newed?

Davesnave

Mizzle here, so the top of the hill on the opposite side of the valley has disappeared, but it's still very mild. Yesterday, we must've hit about 17c in the shelter of the yard. It's a shame we use that area as storage rather than for growing.....but one day.

Yes, FK, car park plants are very satisfying. My red cornus is hopefully becoming many more at present and the red willows I picked up at the roadside last year already number a dozen or so.

My longest term 'car park plants' are some variegated box, now worth quite a substantial amount, collected whilst walking one of our kids in their pram. (Prams are very handy receptacles for prunings! :cool:)

I'll probably spend some time potting things up today with the local produce market in mind. We will have to rustle something up for that this week, but it's May June & July we should be thinking of now. Typical that all our labelling gear, which cost around £1500, is in storage and the computer that runs it, is dead!

Hope things are brighter this morning choille. :A

ferretkeeper

Well I didn't stay indoors for long, I had some undercover jobs I could do in preparation for lambing/kidding, there's some very round girls waddling round with big udders, at least they're giving me some warning :rotfl:

Here are the little darlings, they wouldn't stay still so the pics are blurry!




There's only 4, but mum is young and I wouldn't want or expect any more than that. The last newbie mum that farrowed here last year had 5, so I'm very happy with that. I'll be putting my big girls back to the boar soon too, in rotation.

My boy Winston is also lovely, so friendly, he's prone to dry skin so he gets slathered in baby oil or similar from time to time, the hardest bit is getting him up off the floor so you can do the other side!

In the end I didn't keep those tamworths from the show for breeding, but they were cracking baconers when they went

Speaking of which, my tummy is telling me it's lunchtime!

Forgot, yes hubbys job is fine, the company's contract comes up for renewal every six months so we never really know how long he's got there. Next deadline is June but rumour has it the contract will be there til December, and the company are considering another two locations, so hopefully there's some longevity

Better_Days

Lovely piggie piccies FK

Hope you're having a better day choille

I'll never look at another supermarket carpark the same again Dave

Dry here so far.....but BBC weather is promising rain from 3pm - I've defied them and put out the washing (first time this year) but maybe scuttling out shortly to get it in again

Did my T&M order - 20% off today. Tried to swap Tesco Clubcard vouchers for T&M (£5 for £15 so a good deal) but couldn't get it to work - the vouchers show up but Tesco wont let me use them :mad::mad:

Still 20% off not to be sneezed at - got some bedding plug plants, and some tomato and tagetes Lemon Gem seeds. Lemon Gem were one of the first things I grew from seed at our first house, and I seem to recall they are very easy and flower all summer long. As I lost nearly all my toms to blight last year I'm trying Ferline to see how resistant they are. We'll see.

COOLTRIKERCHICK

FK... maybe the diet isn't right for your boar??


in dogs, skin problems were either caused by either to high a protein diet, or lack of essential oils making the skin itching or flaky the other thing that would cause it is a reaction to something in their surroundings..


I should imagine its the same principle with any animal, so maybe the food is lacking in something?? or maybe there is something in the ground/bedding causing the skin problem. if you are using baby oil to oil is skin, it might be the food? what colour pig is he??


Maybe LIR can help with suggestions, ??


we feed a the pellet so everything is in there, plus if we fed a 'mix' type food, it would be typical ours would pick out the bits they like, and leave the rest.. lol..