Resourcefulness: The budgeter's friend

foxgloves

Afternoon Diary Readers,
Many thanks for your comments & contributions, which I have enjoyed reading as usual.
Staying on top of the veggie harvest season continues. Productive day, with tomorrow's tasks already planned.
*Today's garden pickings: Rest of the tomatoes. Sorted into ripe ones & those destined for the sunny ripening tray & basket. Also 2 tromboncinos (squash sized), courgettes, a pepper, chillies & carrots. Chillies frozen ready for using later this month.
*Took down all the outside tomato plants & packed away their bottomless pots, canes & toppers for next year. Used the spent compost to add a bit of fibre to the salad bed.
*Sorted greenhouse pepper & chilli plants into better positions for both ripening & staying moist.
*Potted up a dozen pansies grown from free seed.
*Sowed some lettuce seed into a spent grow bag. This will provide some cut & come again winter salad leaves. While I was busy with this, Mr F tested out the new electric shears on the hedge & then mowed the lawn.
*Still very much on use-it-up here where food is concerned. Poached salmon fillets tonight with roast veg couscous & french beans.
*Still using up a big stash of strong bin bags we found while clearing Mum & Dad's house so was able to pack my charity shop declutterings in a nice strong sack ready for dropping off on Wednesday.
*Did Monday morning budget check-ins.....or rather, I looked at our accounts & discovered I am up to date with everything atm.
*Sorted large jars & lids from my stash ready for more tomato bottling tomorrow. 
*Did a survey.
*Entered a competition.
And that, m'dears will be it for today, as I am going to do some reading & watch TV later. I need the next few days to be productive so am dividing up tasks between them in my diary so I don't forget anything. 
Love F x

foxgloves

Hello Diary Lovelies,
Hope everyone's managed at least a reasonably decent day. No excitement here (a good thing). Budget-friendly efforts as follows:
*Treated ourselves to breakfast at the farm shop cafe in our village. Paid from our Personal Spends so budget-neutral. Managed to ignore the lovely things on sale in the homeware shop.
*Put a colour on my yukky roots so as not to spoil forthcoming holiday photos looking like demented pebble-hunting badger.
*Took advantage of good free drying weather to wash a load of towels & some 
trousers I thought Mr F had put in the bin (never mind, as they will soon walk there on their own!)
*Bottled another 5kg of tomatoes. Despite having 14 plants this year instead of last year's 19, & a slow start, we've had a good crop. 
*Using up current food stores continues - pesto pasta tonight from the 1st of the big picks of basil & yes, it will include a couple of courgettes, of course it will. And I think I've eaten 2 pears a day for about the last month!
*Entered a competition.
Apparently it's not my cooking night, so I've taken myself off to the reading bench with my book & the last bits of the weekend papers. A nicer end to the day than the beginning, anyway, which involved interring one of Soot's rodents.
F x 

Sun_Addict

Thanks for mentioning the salad leaves as it reminded me I’ve got some all year round seeds and it prompted me to sow them. I only grew 4 tomato plants but they gave a decent yield. 

Suffolk_lass

Ooh yes, and pansies. I have two small troughs that need planting up with mine before we do away tomorrow (only 3 nights, in a field in our camper! Not sure what to do with my tomatoes. I might pick them all next Monday, before we go away until the end of the month. I can close up the greenhouse and leave them on the counter while we are away, to ripen... maybe...

foxgloves

That's what I've done with mine, @Suffolk_lass. All the ripe ones bottled yesterday. All the others left to ripen while we are away ready for chutney, soup & gigantes plakis making when we return. Just labelled & stashed another 8 jars of tomatoes in the pantry. 
F