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Mistress Rose

Joined: 21 Jul 2011
Posts: 15987

Posted: Wed Apr 08, 20 6:58 am Post subject:
It is possible. Currently I am spinning wool from a sheep that seems to have been wearing a hearthrug. Pulling bits off, which then get washed and pulled apart some more before carding is hard work. Not sure what it will be when finished as it is rather 'kempy' that is hairy. I am sure it will make a good outer jacket over several other layers, but not anywhere near any exposes skin.

wishus

Joined: 24 Oct 2005
Posts: 777
Location: Northampton, East Midlands

Posted: Wed Apr 08, 20 7:39 am Post subject:

Hey everyone. It's been a few years since I have been on here, but like you all I am trying to grow stuff in isolation. I had an allotment but last year I grew something else- a huge tumour in nah belly! No, not a baby... An actual growth about a stone in weight, luckily benign, but mahoosive. Post major surgery, the allotment was looking rough as I was not able to properly dig for months. I basically grabbed all my kit at the end of last month, and me and hubby have been Tom and Barbara-ing the back garden instead.

I have windowsills full of herbs, spuds and onions in the ground and a mini greenhouse starting my tomatoes, peppers, aubergines, caulis, broad beans and salad. I've got my peas, other beans, root veg to grow yet. That's today's job I think, the peas. I know the weather is warming, but glad I managed to get some fleece.

I also have a few nettles around our 'shed'. Well, it was a shed. It is shed-shaped. Some wood with a tarp roof.

Do you just sprout lentils on the sill from a normal lentil pack?

tahir

Joined: 28 Oct 2004
Posts: 45674
Location: Essex

Posted: Wed Apr 08, 20 8:35 am Post subject:
Lovely to see you back

tahir

Joined: 28 Oct 2004
Posts: 45674
Location: Essex

Posted: Wed Apr 08, 20 8:35 am Post subject:

wishus wrote:

Do you just sprout lentils on the sill from a normal lentil pack?

Any whole lentil (brown, green, puy)

dpack

Joined: 02 Jul 2005
Posts: 46238
Location: yes

Posted: Wed Apr 08, 20 10:38 am Post subject:

nice to see you back , glad you are recovering that sounds horrible , at least you have something in common with royalty iirc queen anne and mary q of s had a similar illness and modern medicine is better than the good old days

allotments are daunting if you don't feel well so the garden is a good compromise and gentle exercise rather than straight back into peasant farmer work.

last year i managed 2 ripe tomatoes 6 cucumbers and a few odds and ends. the bucket spuds were nice but after a blighting i will give them and toms a miss for this year
hopefully this year i will be better at it but peas and the usual onion sets>spring onions>salad size one bag of 50 sets does 2 fish boxes just right as they grow they get thinned, ideal in a small space

Shan

Joined: 13 Jan 2009
Posts: 9075
Location: South Wales

Posted: Wed Apr 08, 20 6:28 pm Post subject:

wishus wrote:

I'm sorry to hear about your health problems. Good to hear you are getting back to health.

it sounds like your home growing is coming on fabulously! Pak Choi is a really easy good and quick grower. Doesn't need a huge depth of soil and can be grown up around other things. I tend to grow them up around my pepper plants once they are established.

Last edited by Shan on Thu Apr 09, 20 8:07 am; edited 1 time in total

Mistress Rose

Joined: 21 Jul 2011
Posts: 15987

Posted: Thu Apr 09, 20 6:51 am Post subject:

I had a smaller growth in my womb that wasn't a baby, so I had a hysterectomy nearly 20 years ago. I actually felt better in some ways afterwards as they had to give me 2 units of blood, and as I was suffering from ME, the new stuff was rather better than the stuff I lost. Anyway, glad you are better now, and able to get on.

My husband put in raised beds for me in the garden as I couldn't face a large expanse of garden when digging or anything, but having a defined area made it far easier, even if I could only at the time dig part of one each session.

Hoping to have another go at the garden this weekend as we have been working at charcoal and log sacks this week.

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