Work has prevented me from getting very far along this year. Gotta get that corrected.
VIDEO: Slow starting 2016 season
Work has prevented me from getting very far along this year. Gotta get that corrected.
Work has prevented me from getting very far along this year. Gotta get that corrected.
Thanks for the update always nice to hear what you are up to, I think you must be right about the raspberries our's just seem to spread and spread by themselves.
On another note how is your shredder? The reason I ask is that I have lost several of the hammers and have ordered new ones, I have the machine completely stripped down, not so easy! If you ever have to do it ask me……. I can't complain I have done a huge amount of work with the machine and have been probably overdoing it with the size I'm putting through it!
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Lots of good projects that you have going on. I hope you get to spend more time working on them. I would be very interested to see what kinds of things you can do with fermentation.
Best of luck this year!
Steve
I have said many times to people that to be it is almost impossible to be completely self sufficient in Europe, you need a small passive income to cover the bills which you need and have to pay, i.e. local parish council tax, healthcare (luckily in the UK we have the over worked, under funded NHS) and other various bill. If you had this, you could concentrate on being self sufficient, but even then it would take all you time to do it, I don't know how much land you have available, but all I have is the garden around the house and a small allotment. I still manage to grow a lot of the fruit and vegetables for the year, but we do to have to buy in the fruit and vegetables, I can't grow due to in the weather and amount of land I have to grow on. So I do understand your comment on work/life balance. I work two shifts one week 06:00–14:00 and one week 14:00–22:00, so when I am working the late shift I have time in the morning to get things done around the garden and allotment. If I worked a normal 08:30 – 16:30, I think I would struggle to get as much done. So like I say to people having to work, stop you being you being self sufficient, but to be self sufficient you need a small passive income which most people don't have. So you are stuck, you need to work.
Ha ha The blumenkohl got you get me too.;-) The frame with the beans on sounds good. I know what you mean with time man. I am out at 6 back at 6 now. Did get a couple of hours in the garden tonight the weather was better. I want to see what you do with the tomato house where did you get it. my wife got us a cherry tree from Germany last week 50 franks here or 17 euros there… I managed to get some spuds in buckets Sunday did it in the shed was raining sideways all day and Monday too great fun on the sky worker wet to the bone and bloody cold…
That is nice to get a little more space for planting. Have you thought about pvc pipe for a top brace added in. I look forward to see your beans grow too.
Yep, you're right Jay, self sufficiency isn't just gardening, its a life style, a mindset,….it can be hard not to have a stable job, but it is doable, I recently talked with an ex-coworker of the cereal factory I worked at, in the HR office, 'til October '06, and she told me so many co-workers are sick and tired, with ailments and AFRAID of getting liquidated, on account of their deteriorating health. Anyways, back to your AWESOME Garden, as slow as you indicate that it is, its looking MIGHTY FINE, good thing about ya buddy, you think out your projects, then you carefully plan them out and then you get your hands dirty! 😉
I like the way your defined self sufficiency. Outside of the monetary system.