Resourcefulness: The budgeter's friend

Sun_Addict

Hope the dental appointment goes well and flies by. 

weenancyinAmerica

Only advantage of having false teeth - no visits to the dentist involving shots.

rtandon27

Hope all goes well at the dentist!

Your village lady encounter did make me giggle - it is precisely those interactions that made me move to a town and not a city!  I love a good random chatter with neighbours I don't know!

Suffolk_lass

If you are able to take a photo of yours, I would be very interested to see them please. I may propose that we swap a few things if they look as I am expecting...

foxgloves

@Suffolk_lass - This is one of our Guatemalan Blue squashes. It is sitting on a standard size terracotta quarry tile (to raise it above damp soil), which should give you an idea of size. I'd expect it to get a bit bigger than this, but the growth of the first fruit does slow once the plant has set a further fruit, as is usually the case with pumpkin/squash family. The colour won't change a lot - I'd expect it to get slightly more grey-ish blue by the time we harvest them which is usually late Aug to early Sept. I will cut them a little earlier if the plants die back so as not to risk losing them to rot.
Hope this helps a bit? My first batch of seed was gifted to me years ago by someone who had a dfw diary on here & an allotment. I have saved some seed every year since then. Unlike pumpkin seeds I've saved, these have always 'come true', producing the same squash each year.
F x

foxgloves

Hello Saturday Savers,
Thanks for your good wishes re my dentist visit yesterday. All went well - it was our dentist's suggestion to get a 3rd little bit of work done because as he said, I was already going to be numb on that side & the NHS cost would be the same whether he did 1 repaired filling during that appointment or three, so 3 things sorted out & money saved.
Anyway, onto today's budget-positive stuff:
*Did 3 loads of laundry to make best use of good free drying weather. The next couple of days are looking rainy & I want to make a start on summer pillow-washing next week.
*Garden pickings: 800g blackberries, more courgettes, spring onions, cucumber.
*Did a bit of Autumn sowing - 2 more pots of carrots, 1 of rocket, a final trough of spring onions & 2 trays of pansies. All free seed except the SOs.
*Sent Mr F on a mission to the very depths of the pantry to investigate stocks of home made fruit liqueurs. This yielded sufficient rhubarb & ginger gin for a couple of glasses (that's tonight sorted!), a small bottle of blackberry whisky (which he'd forgotten about & greeted with great enthusiasm) & the best find...an entire unopened bottle of blackberry & pear gin dated 2022. I think we have managed to drink 2023's bottlings before 2022's. Anyway, it all went to inform my decision to start a 2025 batch as soon as the 1st pears are ready.
*Watered the raised beds.
It's Mr F's cooking night & he's making an old seasonal favourite - lamb & marrow bake - a WW recipe. I'm intending to read out on our kitchen garden bench. 
Not a no-spend day as we booked tickets for a film event on Oct 31st. I think I might buy some tights with bats on & dress up a bit....that's still a long way off though.
Hoping to spend a useful amount of time tomorrow cutting out & making a start on my maxi-dress. I'd ideally like it to be finished in time for our autumn holiday as I think it could be a good 'between seasons' outfit with boots & my leather jacket. But I mustn't get ahead of myself.....plenty of time for sewing disasters!
Wishing everyone a pleasant weekend,
F x

teapot2

Hi Foxgloves, glad your visit to the dentist went well.  I hope you won't mind me asking a dental related question here as I know you get lots of visitors.  Has anyone had a dental implant and what was the process like?  The idea of it fills me with a good deal of dread but I don't know anyone who has had the procedure done to ask.  Fine to send me a private message as I don't want to hijack FG's diary.  TIA x

Suffolk_lass

Ooh, that Guatemalan BS id definitely a different variety. I shall have to investigate further!

foxgloves

@teapot2 - Yes, me! I had dental implants done in January 2024. Do feel free to private message me any questions.
F

foxgloves

@Suffolk_lass - I did think ours looked a bit different to yours. There's always something new to learn with gardening, isn't there? I had no idea that they weren't just one single type of plant/fruit, but are clearly a 'family', so I have defo learned something from your experience of naughty triffids colonising the fruit cage! 
F