Daydream fund challenge part 4

I_have_spoken

Tried the new electric lawn scarifier, impressed with the results; the wheelie bin is now full of moss and dead grass.

Not sure whether to give another dressing of lawn sand or seed it.

Fay

IHS can I ask which scarifier you bought please? We are thinking of getting one but don't want to spend too much!

I_have_spoken

This one, https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/B00170NWP2/ I thinks it's the cheapest on Amazon. Although I'd be waiting for a Warehouse deal I needed it.

Fay

I don't think I've ever had a warehouse deal! That looks a decent price. I've seen one on screw fix for £80 which gets good reviews too. We have 3 lawns in the back and a tiny one in the front. Back are not massive but by hand it would take ages I know.

I_have_spoken

I love an Amazon Warehouse deal, also have price trackers on camelcamelcamel.

Davesnave

So pleased we could just do some gardening today. :jIt feels like we've been on the roof for a week, but it's only 4 days. Still loads of it to do!

Planted a new hedge this afternoon; just a single row of holm oak, viburnum, eleagnus and Portuguese laurel, all evergreen and designed to hide BiL's caravan from view....eventually. :DThey'll also protect the new plant standing out area.... err... when it's built.:o

The new woodland is now almost 2.5 years old and it's really coming on a treat, despite some neglect. I'll get a piccie when everything's fully out.

We return to the village Market next weekend. With the dodgy spring, it's been hard to gear-up for selling again. On Friday, someone from the church showed-up to ask if we had any plants for their sale today.....but we were in full roofing mode. It was poetic justice, as the last time we attended their sale with plants, in 2013, the regulars weren't keen to give us table space, so it was all very embarrassing. :o

Maybe next year......:A

Fay

I_have_spoken wrote: »

I love an Amazon Warehouse deal, also have price trackers on camelcamelcamel.

This sounds foreign to me. Clearly I am not a good money saver!

alfie_1

hiya al..


glorious weather here [sorry to those that haven't got it !]
has hit the 20s every day since Tuesday. today was a scorcher and I registered 24 in the garden this afternoon.
had to water all my pots not long ago and did more flower planting.. I cant remember what half of them are but the surprise is part of the fun !
found a mahoosive toad under a raised big tub so carefully put the tub back quickly..
topped up the fish pond that had lost 6" of water this week and out popped a BIG frog that was in the lilies...


feeding dogs into dog grooming van tomorrow.. asbo is decidedly scruffy at the mo but I don't like him short so I have to decide by tomorrow wether he joins the que !!


new dog has the knick name of DOLLY DAYDREAM.... she just goes off in her own little world sometimes..

choille

Everyone sounds uber busy bees.

Have a ewe with a very swollen udder & teat. Have given anti-biotics & she seems fine, but I don't like the colour. Her new lamb is managing to feed from the other side - which is a blessing.

Been very cold wind, but came really hot late afternoon - didn't realise until I went to check the sheep & the heat was like a wall that hit you when you opened the door - very odd, very welcome though.

Been down the slope pulling out bracken - as ever. It's shooting up now - always defeats me.
Been listing on the bay as it's free fees at the mo, but very slow sales, but you never know.

Still got the cold lingering on & a hacking cough - sounds like I'm back on the Woodbine.

Davesnave

choille wrote: »

Been very cold wind, but came really hot late afternoon - didn't realise until I went to check the sheep & the heat was like a wall that hit you when you opened the door - very odd, very welcome though.

They said it would get up to you today.

Temperatures here have been good, without being super-hot, but it looks like we'll have rain tomorrow and more on Tuesday, which is awkward when a roof has to come off......:( I hope our builder can arrange to do something else for a couple of days.

Still pegging-away at the garden, trying to knock it into shape, so it can go on under its own steam for much of the summer. We're currently trying to reinstate the bit that Mr Rod wrecked with his digger when he installed a new drainage pipe in 2014. DW had an avenue of 24 astrantias there, but it's been too compacted and full of clay to replace them before now.

The landlady of next door, having said she was arranging to have the septic tanks emptied, has now gone quiet. Soon, the plants will be too dense and tall to get in there with pipes....:mad: I can't wait until the time when we 'migrate' that garden onto the land directly behind our house and leave 'septic tank land' mainly to tough shrubs.

t