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Post by mowlick on Jan 13, 2022 15:41:01 GMT
have to start working
This catches me every year. Come November I mooch around, do a bit of light pruning, turn the compost heaps and start bonfires to brew pots of coffee that are more wood ash and rat crap than anything else, but still tastes great, especially if there is a decent frost and think well, sod it, I can't do much because winter is on the way.
So I don't and feel good.
But it is now January. It will be spring in two months. I have to prepared the barrels and compost bins for the spuds, clear the beds for the other roots, repair the trellising for the fruit and generally run around like a blue bummed fly.
Roll on autumn
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Post by Prince Myshkin on Jan 15, 2022 3:36:36 GMT
What do you intend to plant?
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Post by Flying Monkeys on Jan 15, 2022 9:42:42 GMT
What do you intend to plant? Spuds. |
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Post by yggdrasil on Jan 15, 2022 9:47:47 GMT
Apart from as a hobby, food is so ridiculously cheap on the whole that you are better off just buying at a supermarket from the financial aspect.
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Post by mowlick on Jan 15, 2022 13:23:06 GMT
Apart from as a hobby, food is so ridiculously cheap on the whole that you are better off just buying at a supermarket from the financial aspect. Well I bloody well know that. I never pass a greengrocer's without thinking that I could buy everything I grow for a fiver.
But I have done drugs and drink, and the hardest addiction to kick is gardening.
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Post by mowlick on Jan 15, 2022 13:35:59 GMT
What do you intend to plant? To be honest, most of my allotment is given over to fruit. I have plums, apples, blackberries, raspberries, gooseberries, blackcurrants, hazel nuts, pears, cherries, rhubarb and such and all they need is a bit of pruning, netting and such. I like to grow spuds, beans, turnips, parsnips, leeks, onions, garlic, tomatoes, courgettes, pumpkins etc, which means that I have to clear the beds, but after thirty years of manuring that doesn't mean much more than a bit of light hoeing. As Ash said, daft really when you consider that the roots cost sod all in the supermarket, but there you are.
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Post by Flying Monkeys on Jan 15, 2022 17:18:25 GMT
What do you intend to plant? To be honest, most of my allotment is given over to fruit. I have plums, apples, blackberries, raspberries, gooseberries, blackcurrants, hazel nuts, pears, cherries, rhubarb and such and all they need is a bit of pruning, netting and such. I like to grow spuds, beans, turnips, parsnips, leeks, onions, garlic, tomatoes, courgettes, pumpkins etc, which means that I have to clear the beds, but after thirty years of manuring that doesn't mean much more than a bit of light hoeing. As Ash said, daft really when you consider that the roots cost sod all in the supermarket, but there you are. ^ He has a 4 acre allotment. |
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Post by Prince Myshkin on Jan 15, 2022 18:22:22 GMT
What do you intend to plant? To be honest, most of my allotment is given over to fruit. I have plums, apples, blackberries, raspberries, gooseberries, blackcurrants, hazel nuts, pears, cherries, rhubarb and such and all they need is a bit of pruning, netting and such. I like to grow spuds, beans, turnips, parsnips, leeks, onions, garlic, tomatoes, courgettes, pumpkins etc, which means that I have to clear the beds, but after thirty years of manuring that doesn't mean much more than a bit of light hoeing. As Ash said, daft really when you consider that the roots cost sod all in the supermarket, but there you are.
Damn, I assumed it was a smaller plot for vegetables. If you have apple and plum trees, you must have quite a bit of land.
And of course we garden more for the pleasure, and the fresh produce, than the cost at the market.
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Post by Prince Myshkin on Jan 15, 2022 18:23:17 GMT
What do you intend to plant? Spuds. Are you calling him a spudboy? |
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Post by Flying Monkeys on Jan 15, 2022 18:26:17 GMT
Are you calling him a spudboy? I don't know what that is. ![[puzzled]](http://storage.proboards.com/6870873/images/NAXXGDDBnhZbqGHzOHIR.gif) (Do you know what spuds are...?) |
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Post by Prince Myshkin on Jan 15, 2022 18:43:07 GMT
Are you calling him a spudboy? I don't know what that is. ![[puzzled]](http://storage2.proboards.com/6870873/images/NAXXGDDBnhZbqGHzOHIR.gif) (Do you know what spuds are...?) A spud is a potato. Is there a British slang use?
"Spudboy" is American slang for sort of a rural simpleton.
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Post by Flying Monkeys on Jan 15, 2022 18:54:48 GMT
I don't know what that is. (Do you know what spuds are...?) A spud is a potato. Is there a British slang use? No, that's it. Just didn't know if it was a word in the US or not. Ah, got it. No, Mowlick is not a rural simpleton, he is a sophisticated urbanite. Yes. |
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Post by Prince Myshkin on Jan 15, 2022 20:16:41 GMT
A spud is a potato. Is there a British slang use? No, that's it. Just didn't know if it was a word in the US or not. Ah, got it. No, Mowlick is not a rural simpleton, he is a sophisticated urbanite. Yes. Well, Mowlick does sound like quite the farmer.
"Spudboy" is also a term of endearment for fans of the band Devo.I'm a spudboy.
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Post by mowlick on Jan 15, 2022 20:55:32 GMT
That would be the Fair Persian, an enchanting piece of nonsense who works the plot a hundred yards up and who is one of the best reasons for improving relations with Iran ![[grin]](http://storage2.proboards.com/6870873/images/CBubFSUbXfyoLMZUjeBb.gif) |
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Post by Prince Myshkin on Jan 15, 2022 21:16:38 GMT
That would be the Fair Persian, an enchanting piece of nonsense who works the plot a hundred yards up and who is one of the best reasons for improving relations with Iran Oooh. Persian women are beautiful.
"an enchanting piece of nonsense"
I love quaint British phraseology. ![[laugh]](http://storage.proboards.com/6870873/images/kPFtBpkwzwpFTaSmbFWI.gif) |
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