Buying a little piece of Middle England; Manifesting my way to mortgage free.

greenbee

If you've got any bamboos, or hazel branches, you can use those to grow things up. Or strings attached to the roof. You don't have to use 'proper' supports - I have some bits of metal grid that I use for climbers, and and old gate!. I made a frame for my cucumbers last year by just adding more bamboos as they grew (they were against the end wall). Runner beans may well take over if you grown them inside!

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KajiKita said:

With the dizziness, please go and see your GP as it might be related to an inner ear infection.

Loving all the gardening talk  

KK

It flares up every now and then I think it's the menieres the Dr was talking about (not that it's been properly diagnosed but the symptoms fit). My hayfever seems to have aggravated it. 
Already been out to do some gardening this morning. Totally chinned off the housework 😌.

debtfreewannabe321

greenbee said:

If you've got any bamboos, or hazel branches, you can use those to grow things up. Or strings attached to the roof. You don't have to use 'proper' supports - I have some bits of metal grid that I use for climbers, and and old gate!. I made a frame for my cucumbers last year by just adding more bamboos as they grew (they were against the end wall). Runner beans may well take over if you grown them inside!

We were left lots of bamboo but when I pulled some out to use it they quite literally disintegrated in my hands 😯 so probably past it's best 😆. I do however have lots of random metal bits from leftover beds and things buried at the back of the garden that we found randomly so I have in mind to use these anyway as DP nearly took them to the tip but I think they can be used for growing...they're not overly tall each separate piece though. I'll fashion something out of it all. 

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Needed to stop as need to eat and drink and then go out..I've got my bike out so will take that when I go to see my friend. DP has the car all day and he left before six this morning! So won't see him until later on. 
So far I've planted - tomatoes into grow bags into the greenhouse. Courgettes into a big enough bed and sweetcorn interspersed between them. Then dug up the sweetcorn remembering they like to be in blocks not rows 😆😆 at least I remembered early on this time... before when growing them I was digging them up when they were already over a foot tall after someone told me 🙈 they grew lovely tasting corn though 🌽 so hopefully these ones will be successful. They've enough space after I also made that mistake before not giving enough space. We live and learn from the mistakes huh!
I still have beans and cucumber to pot on/ plant somewhere yet. And the weeding to do. I spent a good hour having to sift through the first few inches of the bed I used to take out hard  core. The bed was lovely lush and ready to use and then the greenhouse went next to it and rubble ended up being chucked all over it! So I've tried to take it all out leaving the fertile soil under it. But that's taken me the most time this morning. 
If I can be bothered I will pop to £stretcher for one more grow bag after seeing friend. I think I can fit it into my bike basket. That way I can get on with doing the cucumbers. 
Right hopefully I'll be back later having completed all my jobs on my list!

greenbee

debtfreewannabe321 said:

greenbee said:

If you've got any bamboos, or hazel branches, you can use those to grow things up. Or strings attached to the roof. You don't have to use 'proper' supports - I have some bits of metal grid that I use for climbers, and and old gate!. I made a frame for my cucumbers last year by just adding more bamboos as they grew (they were against the end wall). Runner beans may well take over if you grown them inside!

We were left lots of bamboo but when I pulled some out to use it they quite literally disintegrated in my hands 😯 so probably past it's best 😆. I do however have lots of random metal bits from leftover beds and things buried at the back of the garden that we found randomly so I have in mind to use these anyway as DP nearly took them to the tip but I think they can be used for growing...they're not overly tall each separate piece though. I'll fashion something out of it all. 

I have plans to use the TV aerial removed from my chimney to grow things up... 

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All house plants have been turned, watered and two re-potted and fed. 😇 Spoken to a few nicely and asked them to stop sulking. 
Few other housework jobs done and now I need to do that half hour of weeding I put off every day. 🫣
I will then finish watching a netflix series I started (Fred and rosemary west ) whilst ironing! 
Okay....onwards...

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I found a lovely peach coloured rose hiding in the shady bed at the back! Taller than me. Growing up to reach the sun 🌞. Lots of new life everywhere from poppies and seedlings coming up (to the obvious bindweed and ground elder and brambles 😑). I made some sort of runner beans prop with something we took out another bed that I think honeysuckle was growing through (still bits on there) and I planted up the runner beans. Sadly one loss. The roots had all stuck to the bottom of the plastic and even though I'd soaked thoroughly before taking out they all snapped off one. Still I have five good ones should be enough anyway!
I didn't do a lot of gardening but did make a cucumber bed with some bricks and string and the runner beans and also dead headed a few bits around the garden I also found some wood which I nailed into the strawberry beds and netted them up. The blackbirds have been right on there since we've had some flowers. It was nice temperature for me too not too hot and not too cold. 
Blackbirds in the next garden were distress calling for ages, a magpie was trying to attack their nest ☹️ I know it's nature's way but it really upset me hearing them so upset. I think they attacked the magpie but I don't know whether it left as there was a full on fight going on. 

Dinnertime now and I think it will be a quick and easy pasta and salad.

Oh and I didn't spend any money today 😁 so a NSD. Not that I'm keeping count this month...I've forgotten where I'm at. But I held off on buying compost and grow bags and canes etc, used what I could find around the garden instead, repurposing the old -including the netting around the strawberries I've kept that from two houses ago I knew it would come in handy 🙈🤣. And some days I am very grateful to the wood hoarder for all his wood stashed I'm still stumbling across. I used some on the strawberry bed today for the netting and used some as canes for some plants around the garden 😆.

redofromstart

That is coming on beautifully.  Did you plant the peony?  I have a patch of the same sort of colour which came with the house, lovely flowers.  I like the rose colour too - is it scented?  

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redofromstart said:

That is coming on beautifully.  Did you plant the peony?  I have a patch of the same sort of colour which came with the house, lovely flowers.  I like the rose colour too - is it scented?  

The rose is a subtle scent and the peony was already in the ground I dug out a huge hedge around it so it's had space this year to bloom nicely 🥰. I have several in pots too that I saved after digging everything out of my new fruit beds 😊.

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Another working day done.
I'm feeling very tired today. DP met me for lunch which was nice. We used the taste card we have to get 25% off at BK. Lots of exams going on at work for students so I was a bit discombobulated all day not really knowing what I was doing or what was going on 😆. Hopefully tomorrow will be a bit more normal. I've been super cold all day today too 🥶 got to wear my new FF coat though (ALL day even indoors!) tomorrow I will remember to take a big jumper to work with me. 

I'm going to take a different tactic with watering the plants. I will give them a really good soaking two or three times a week depending on how cold it's been and not do it every day like I have been. Hopefully it will mean the water bill is not going to be astronomical too 😬.

Dinner tonight will be quick and easy as I'm too tired to be bothered with much. I'll see what we have already made as leftovers or in the freezer.