NOT BUYING IT! 2015 - A consumer holiday

I_want_a_baby

7WW,

Jan /feb I prepare the soil, dig it over, remove weeds, add any compost etc.

Mar/April is the start of the main planting time. One hour per weekend will get most of the planting and successional planting done.

My golden rules:
Read the packet and follow the guidance re shade/sun and planting distance. If you plant too close together they will be straggly and struggle to get enough water and nutrients. Too far apart and they will suffer from the weather and not be protected enough.
Weed and water daily literally even 5 minutes will make a huge difference!
Harvest little and often to encourage the plant to produce more.

I generally use the cold weather for ground prep and suss ing out where gets most sun etc and use the packets to sort a planting plan. Remembering to put vertical plants like runner beans at the back so it doesn't stop the light getting to smaller veg.

Good luck! X

mumto2monkeys_2

Happy New Year shipmates - may 2015 bring peace, contentment and joy to all .

fairy3

Happy New Year to all the crew and may 2015! I for one am glad to see the back of 2014 and long may we sail.
Katkin - that is a fabulous ship, happy to be aboard.
Nurse maggie- another one here looking forward to ships rations to help get the weight down.
Re SM's went into tosco's yesterday briefly and spent my vouchers on a slowcooker for £10 - so cost me a whole £1.50 and gave the lady behind my points and glad to be free of all the loyalty cards, points etc. I couldn't have done this even a couple of years ago due to work and life in general but really want to try this year.
The great thing about this thread is respecting everyone's circumstances and personal choices. My main aim is to not buy it unless I need it and reduce the amount of stuff already in to simplify and lighten the load.
Here's to a healthy 2015 to us all

DianaMattos

I_want_a_baby wrote: »

7WW,

Jan /feb I prepare the soil, dig it over, remove weeds, add any compost etc.

Mar/April is the start of the main planting time. One hour per weekend will get most of the planting and successional planting done.

My golden rules:
Read the packet and follow the guidance re shade/sun and planting distance. If you plant too close together they will be straggly and struggle to get enough water and nutrients. Too far apart and they will suffer from the weather and not be protected enough.
Weed and water daily literally even 5 minutes will make a huge difference!
Harvest little and often to encourage the plant to produce more.

I generally use the cold weather for ground prep and suss ing out where gets most sun etc and use the packets to sort a planting plan. Remembering to put vertical plants like runner beans at the back so it doesn't stop the light getting to smaller veg.

Good luck! X

Thank you so much for this, I was just discussing with the Husband as to whether we could do veg this year after we fail miserably year after year. But perhaps with your easy plan and my youngest off to preschool after Easter, it may just be doable!

And in other news, I decided to buy the biker boots. But once again, none left in my size guess it wasn't meant to be.

Have a lovely first day of the year, may it be successful for everyone :j

Primrose

Greetings all on our No spend, No alcohol, or No calorie diets!

I'm sure there will be plenty of inspiration on this thread if temptation starts to call.

Daisy58

HAPPY NEW YEAR

Hope everyone had a nice evening, I was in bed by 10pm.

I am in declutter mode today again, we have started in the kitchen and doing it bit by bit.
As I can not stand for long I have been sitting on chair doing the drawers and bottom cupboards, OH is doing the top ones.
We will go through every room it will take awhile but thats okay.

We havent been to the shops since the 23rd Dec, we ran out of milk but had some UHT milk in the cupboard so used that.
I also want to get back to knitting this year.

CAFCGirl

Heffi1 wrote: »

Happy New Year shipmates!

I also decided that I wanted to do a degree, partly so I could look for a better job one day and because I waste so much time doing 'nothing' with my spare time, so I enrolled and I am now a student at the age of 49! It is a long term plan, as with the OU I can take my time over it and not feel rushed, with a view that when I am 55/6 I will have achieved a dream that I thought was not achievable when I was younger and raising the kids etc. so this is my way of taking back my self and doing what I want to do.

Fellow OU degree student here too! I started my 1st degree module in october

grunnie

Happy New Year all. OH not driving for a few months as he has double vision and no optometrist in Aberdeen or Elgin just now - first appointment is the middle of January so he is like a pirate with a patch over his eye. When he had this 2 years ago he saw all 3 staff in Aberdeen at the same time and got a lens fitted that same day. What is the NHS coming too.
I don't drive so this lazy me will be getting fit unless I am going to hibernate.
Someone mentioned here they were taking oranges with them - I make an kitchen cleaner with orange peel - soak in vinegar for a day or 2 and strain then add some water and put into a clean spray bottle.

Thistle-down

This year feels like it will be different to other years where I have made similar resolutions about getting my life under control.

Right from the start in other years, I would be sneakily planning how to get around my resolutions by finding some loophole, so I could still spend with gay abandon but not feel guilty about it. Of course it didn't work, and only led to more guilt and more debt. I hadn't had my LBM even though I told myself that I had.

Now, I just don't want any more stuff. I don't want a lot of what we have, I don't even want things we need.

I think my main challenge will be staying off MSE long enough each day to actually get things done. It's all too addictive.

yellowbear

Thanks for that grunnie!