Kitchen Garden Forum

Good morning Alan, i am thinking of down sizing, so this property looks ideal. The cottages look ideal for staff quarters and visiting forum members.
Regarding the price, this is not an issue as i suppose one is paying for the fact of having good neighbours.

I could just buy it for a Winter retreat, knowing what clement weather you have at this time of the year.

If we all bunged in a couple of hundred quid, we could buy it as a KG collective summer holiday home. It would certainly save the accommodation problem if one wanted to hold an annual reunion.
(And I would at last have an area large enough to have some permanent asparagus and globe artichoke beds!)

The good Saturday promised hasn't yet materialised.

The property would have been just right Alan but I don't play chess!

Whilst on a trip into work today I decided to get a spade out and finish the last little bit of open ground Winter digging...not the usual way of working...but in 20 minutes it was done.. Thursday saw us furniture shifting, Friday was a wash out for outside work...and this little bit of digging was bugging me....
Much more forking over to do..but at least all the open ground is turned over..

On arriving back home there was a brief spell of sunshine...so the cold frame got a quick dig over.....plans for some Lettuce plants to go in next weekend perhaps. Also the new Blackberry found its way from its temporary pot home and into the garden against the lathe trellis frame..

So a little bit of progress again. ...before the next onslsaught from the forecast rain and wind.. .........

Clive.

I don't think the bedrooms of that property are big enough actually. I had a good look, but I am not sure that my entire house would fit into one of them... Maybe if I left my conserveratory out it would I am loving the idea of a holiday camp for forum members!

Evening Clive, it does look like we are in for a right old rough one tomorrow!
There's a lot of standing water here already, so i hate to think what it will be like tomorrow night.

Regarding the holiday camp for forum members, i wonder who will be in the room next to mine.

Must check in the Sunday papers tomorrow if I have won the lottery, then I could buy the house and presented to the KG Forum!

As to the weather: we also finished the winter digging on the allotment this morning (the first fit day to do so, even then there was a very light crust of frost on top). Took out the last brassicas bar the spring cabbages and broccoli, though even they have suffered badly this winter. At home, I spread well-rotted manure on the vegetable beds and when they have been throughly wetted by tomorrow night, I'll cover them with black plastic to get the worms working and to warm them up.

There ARE signs of spring, even up here: the oystercatchers have returned from the coast and are starting their courtship chases and this lunchtime I saw a bumble bee, the first of the year!

There are Lapwings nearby but it isn't Spring until the Curlews come back.

It certainly doesn't feel very Spring like outside at the moment, it's absolutely chucking it down, as it has been all night.

Peeing with rain [Sun] in this part of Essex, still if it was colder it would be snow.

Hello Alan. Wow, that is some "little Property"! I reckon a few of us would rattle around quite nicely in it, don't you? All those cottages too....>sigh<.
I haven't checked our lottery ticket yet.......
Cheers.

Quite a few lapwings have stayed inland here over winter the last few years, Geoff, but the oystercatchers still disappear in late summer and the come back for spring.

No luck with the lottery, I am afraid, folks, that house won't be ours!

Forgot to mention: we had a lousy weather forecast for today: heavy rain, sleet and snow all day, but we never saw a drop! Even the sun came out for short periods.

Two previously cancelled rugby matches were to be played today.
The home one couldn't be played in our pond.
The away one was played on the foothills of the Hemel Hempstead alps where the slope allowed the rain to run off.

Do we take it from that then Peter, that your boys lost the Hemel game.