Bill that is soooo cold. Can't praise you for smoking but I'm sure most of us have vices, maybe it's a way to keep your fingers warm How is Mrs Bill?
Fairy has deffo gone AWOL
Valentine's day tomoz' I'm out to a friend's house in the afternoon and expect a man on a white horse with huge bouquet clutching tickets to the Caribbean when I arrive home Looks like being a curry night well it is a Saturday and OH was once worried by a horse LOL
p.s Don't like bread & butter pudding, happy to scoff creamy custard
Spent a bit of time in the greenhouse today: I haven't been on the forum for a while but decided to start sowing some seeds today. Started with Leeks (Pancho) which were very successful last year (& still lifting them ).
I made a wooden box to hold toilet roll & kitchen roll tubes, filled with compost and sowed 3 Parsnip (Countess) seeds in each (will remove weakest after germination to leave 1 per tube which can then be planted out complete in their tubes which will rot down in the soil as they grow on). I realise I will need to pin a strip of copper to keep gastropods away. Pics of Parsnip sowings follow
Hello all, I am back stopped raining in time to get the horse manure
Here is a picture below there were 3 bays but the middle one is the oldest, by the looks of things she has horses, goats, a lama and lots of manure sure I can go back get more when get an allotment
Q it has been rotting down for 5 months + how long till you think I use it
got 8 bags in the car used some of her old feed bags as well as our bin bags
put it down the garden now was raining then but got indoors before it sloshed it down
Wonderful sight John How I want a box like that My loorolls will be planted with sweetpea seeds this weekend, and tied round in a bunch with some garden twine to stop them falling over ....a box is a much more elegant solution.
on the horse muck, we have spent the last few weekends filling the back of our very old landrover with the stuff. On the last trip it was getting dark, and we were due out, so left a full load in the back. On the Tuesday it snowed, and OH had to use said Landrover to get to work ......it was only when he got in that he remembered it still had a full load. So he had to do some shovelling before he set off (and had to change his clothes again too). But my roses will be ace this year
Looks OK to use GG. No smell, as Chicky says, black and quite crumbly.
My cold isn't too bad, more of a nuisance than anything, needs tissues. Have started pruning huge Wedding Day Rose which forms a hedge at one end of the veggie garden. Haven't done it for 3 years and it has lots of old and dead wood in it's centre. They say to prune ramblers after flowering. I find it impossible, can't see what you're doing for leaves.
Tigger is doing OK on the cortisone. But I don't think he'll ever go back to dog food!
DD, I hope Shadow is OK. When Tigger was done years ago he didn't even seem to notice!
Dordogne and Norfolk. Clay in Dordogne, sandy in Norfolk.
Evening all, spent a lovely day cuddling grandaughter. Weather has been awful but tomorrow's looking better according to the forecast so hoping to get out into the garden and dig out more lawn. Curry has just arrived so I'll catch up with you all later.
The manure smells a small bit but not bad some bits where are a bit slimy - does have a great lot of worms in so my garden has now gained a lot of worms good for the soil - think there where some leaves in it as well
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Hi all wet dull and miserable day here 4C
Bill that is soooo cold. Can't praise you for smoking but I'm sure most of us have vices, maybe it's a way to keep your fingers warm
How is Mrs Bill?
Fairy has deffo gone AWOL
Valentine's day tomoz'
I'm out to a friend's house in the afternoon and expect a man on a white horse with huge bouquet clutching tickets to the Caribbean when I arrive home 
Looks like being a curry night 
well it is a Saturday and OH was once worried by a horse LOL
p.s Don't like bread & butter pudding, happy to scoff creamy custard
Spent a bit of time in the greenhouse today: I haven't been on the forum for a while but decided to start sowing some seeds today. Started with Leeks (Pancho) which were very successful last year (& still lifting them ).
I made a wooden box to hold toilet roll & kitchen roll tubes, filled with compost and sowed 3 Parsnip (Countess) seeds in each (will remove weakest after germination to leave 1 per tube which can then be planted out complete in their tubes which will rot down in the soil as they grow on). I realise I will need to pin a strip of copper to keep gastropods away. Pics of Parsnip sowings follow
Hello all, I am back stopped raining in time to get the horse manure
Here is a picture below there were 3 bays but the middle one is the oldest, by the looks of things she has horses, goats, a lama and lots of manure sure I can go back get more when get an allotment
Q it has been rotting down for 5 months + how long till you think I use it
got 8 bags in the car used some of her old feed bags as well as our bin bags
put it down the garden now was raining then but got indoors before it sloshed it down
Wonderful sight John
How I want a box like that
My loorolls will be planted with sweetpea seeds this weekend, and tied round in a bunch with some garden twine to stop them falling over ....a box is a much more elegant solution
.
on the horse muck, we have spent the last few weekends filling the back of our very old landrover with the stuff. On the last trip it was getting dark, and we were due out, so left a full load in the back. On the Tuesday it snowed, and OH had to use said Landrover to get to work ......it was only when he got in that he remembered it still had a full load
. So he had to do some shovelling before he set off (and had to change his clothes again too
). But my roses will be ace this year
Ggirl - 6 months normally does it - if it has no smell then its ready to use
. Looks lovely stuff
Looks OK to use GG. No smell, as Chicky says, black and quite crumbly.
My cold isn't too bad, more of a nuisance than anything, needs tissues. Have started pruning huge Wedding Day Rose which forms a hedge at one end of the veggie garden. Haven't done it for 3 years and it has lots of old and dead wood in it's centre. They say to prune ramblers after flowering. I find it impossible, can't see what you're doing for leaves.
Tigger is doing OK on the cortisone. But I don't think he'll ever go back to dog food!
DD, I hope Shadow is OK. When Tigger was done years ago he didn't even seem to notice!
Evening all, spent a lovely day cuddling grandaughter. Weather has been awful but tomorrow's looking better according to the forecast so hoping to get out into the garden and dig out more lawn
. Curry has just arrived so I'll catch up with you all later.
The Wedding Day, 7 metres wide and a lot taller than me.
The manure smells a small bit but not bad some bits where are a bit slimy - does have a great lot of worms in so my garden has now gained a lot of worms good for the soil - think there where some leaves in it as well
That is well pretty Busy-Lizzie