Daydream fund challenge part 4

greenbee

I'm glad bimble is home alfie. I bet he's pleased to be back too.

I tried to mow the lawn today lucielle, and discovered that the lawn-mower fixing elves haven't been in the garage over the winter I can't pull the starter cord, so I'm wondering whether it's worth sending it for a service or I should just cut my losses and replace it. It's about 15 years old, and I haven't exactly looked after it... (I think I cleaned the spark plug and sharpened the blade about 4 years ago...). I'm away this week and next weekend, but after that I'll really have to get to grips with the grass. And I'm planning on using the cuttings to mulch the hedge.

I should probably go out and plant the rest of my hedging and roses while I can.

tori.k

Glad to hear that bimble is feeling better.
I have pages to catch up on, season now in full swing down here, so enough hours in the day of late im thankful that the clocks change next weekend.
Seems everyone is having a go at growing there own this year im down on pot bedding sales but up on veg and herbs already.
Hope everyone is well, I better try to catch up on the thread.

potplant

Good to hear Bimble is back home. Mystery here; saw a fox in the garden yesterday, the first time since replacing the broken down fence last year. I'm quite happy to see it, but how did it get in? There is a new solid wooden fence, shoulder height, and concrete base ( so tunnelling would have been quite an effort ). Not a herd of wild goats, anyway, that does sound something (and goats eat everything, our urban foxes just leave unsavoury stuff around).

Davesnave

Give Bimble an extra hug from me, alfie.:)

Potplant, a fox can scale something 5' high, though it may avoid doing so if it establishes you have nothing of great interest and there are easier routes. Our foxes and badgers go under the sheep fences, and traverse the fields but they don't seem to hang about, so there must be more interesting places beyond....hopefully!

Cleared all the tree/hedge renovation stuff yesterday in one huge conflagration and cut down the remainder of the trees we're not keeping. We're still averaging a specimen tree every 15m or so, by removing the ones the traffic and flail have damaged over the years. Now it's just tidying the small stuff lodged in the fence bottoms, a bit of planting and we're done.:D

Had a refund from eBay for the alloy wheel and tyre I bought which never arrived. It was too good a bargain, I think, as the tyre was virtually new and would have cost around £100 alone. I paid £50 to the seller, who then submitted a wrong tracking number. Grr!:mad:

Results from seed sowing continue to be good and contrast with the disappointments I had with that naff compost last year. At least I know it wasn't me now! I hang on to old sowings though, and this week some bupleurum seeds I planted in 2017 came up!

in_my_wellies

A fox scaled the 6' fence around my hens a few years back. It took one and left the others dead. Before it happened I wouldn't have believed it, 9 am in the morning when I was up and about and the dogs out. The run now has a roof.

Can I ask a question? When does a 'hedge' become a 'tree' or a 'tree' a 'hedge'? My deeds state 'There must be kept a live hedge of between 4' and 6' around the boundary of the property......' I agree with this and abide by it. Some parts 4' for the view, some parts 6' for privacy. Over the years some hedging has grown up into trees (beech, hawthorn, hazel) and I like the odd few (especially the nuts!) In the past I've layered others into the hedge.

Now I find myself in a conservation area and am told I can't cut any tree with a circumference greater than 7cm without permission from the council. Am I likely to get permission? Can I argue these 'trees' are hedge? Without layering the 'hedge' will become thin and useless as year go by. Will the wording on the deeds hold any meaning (probably dated 1870)? Should I just go for it as part of my normal routine maintenance? Many more birds nest in the hedges than the trees

Thank you

alfie_1

hiya peeps
bimble is better today and eating ! will be a couple of weeks vet reckons but my bimmer will beat this ...
sun is glorious today ! sky bright blue ...


im setting off now with marsha and just hope they like her and she likes them ... and I like them !
she is laid in the sun at the moment and I will miss her cheeky face BUT there are plenty more I can help after this


hope you all have our weather and have a lovely day xx

choille

Sleet, hail & wind gusting about the place. Kept us awake a lot during the night. Fed up with this and the place is a bog.
The snow is only sitting on the very tops.
Went over to Porthmahomak yesterday for a run but it was bitterly cold & rough with waves crashing over the road.
Lambs about over there - bbbbrrrrrrrrr

greenbee

I've cleared some more ivy (mostly at ground level) and run out of garden waste bags (well, the ones they are likely to take). I've also planted some more bare root native hedging that was starting to wake up, and moved a whole lot of fruit bushes into the hedge - no use where they are, so thought they could fill some holes!

The village conservation group were working in the river at the side of my garden, and confirmed that my garden has the second-largest water vole population in the village. Which is lovely. Although not so lovely for my lawn!

Lovely and sunny (sorry choille!) so windows open, and I'm going to have lunch outside and then get on with some more gardening while I can.

pink_poppy

I love Portmahomack, choille, been there a couple of times.

What is it with lawnmowers?? Mine has just stopped working, it just kind of ground to a halt a couple of weeks ago. Great timing as I have Estate Agents coming round to do valuations this week.

alfie, so glad that Bimble is feeling better.

Davesnave

Portmahomack is suspiciously close to Glen Morangie....;)


Wall-to-wall sunshine for our clear-up today, but it wasn't as easy as I'd expected and I'm cream-crackered tonight. Here's DW (dressed for the Arctic :rotfl:) raking the last of the clearings into what's left of the bonfire:



What lies beyond the bonfire is next winter's work. Only about 40m to go! :j