Rooftop Greenhouse Grow Amsterdam

[Don Gin and Ton]

kool kool, thanks man, i was high as and thinking bout breakfast, think that's where the frying bit came from. I just meant how do you remove all the fruit or does it just come away naturally. any traits i should look out for down the supermarket lmao

just looking up mango's 5 years for the tree to fruit ffs. think avacado's are even longer right? i want a mini fruit tree, thinking lemon, i don't think you can get mini lime trees. you can!! sweet

 

[DST]

haha, too many traits to look out for avocado newb!

I got a lemon tree, it hasn't had the greatest starts in life over here but it's still chugging away slowly. Avo's I think are 10 years, ffs.

 

[Mohican]

You can get cuttings from older trees and splice them to your young plant to get fruit sooner. We have a tree that we named sangria because she is made of cuttings from two types of oranges, one lime, and one lemon. She is getting defoliated by some pest but the hot weather is helping her grow faster right now and all of the watering is driving away the ants. Cold weather is on the way now. Hope it does not hurt the buds on the Avo tree.

 

[Don Gin and Ton]

i'v bought a load of seeds to start, just need a sack of compost and i'm away.

lupins carrots ( amsterdam 3 variety?!?) and night scented stock.

 

[DST]

God knows where I would get stuff like that here Mo....sometimes I am really lost where I live. The garden centres are crap, the DIY places.....are also crap (compared to the UK), and the supermarkets, don't even start me on the supermarkets. But other things in life are good so there's always a balance.

Never heard of 3 variety Don. But then I have never heard of 90% of the weed varieties out there either, lol.

 

[Don Gin and Ton]

they had at least 3 or 4 types. from chantenay to normal to baby ones. these are just for pots in the porch come greenhouse to veg a while before they go out to the garden

 

[Mohican]

Try farmer's markets and real farm supply stores. I am lucky that this was once a major farm area. The soil is great and there are a few farm stores left. Everything they sell is half the price and twice the quality as name brand stores. I went to a farmer's market yesterday in Old Town Orange at the orange packing plant. This area was the HQ for most of the orange production in CA. The reason I went was so I could speak to a famous farmer that sells A1 stock. He told me about a new HAAS avo plant that gets two crops a year and he has seen over 50 avocados on a 1 meter branch! He is going to bring me one in a couple weeks!

 

[DST]

Not much growing in the greenhouse, it's v-chilly here at the moment with what seems like an Arctic wind.
Progress on the tulips.

greenhouse roof...brrr

Pumpkin has it's first real leaf

Peace, DST



Declaring my snowy love for my wife...

 

[Don Gin and Ton]

awwww how very cloggy, tulips in the greenhouse. I stuck carrot seeds in a container then it's been minus or near it since so i doubt they've germed, waiting for the snow and last frost is a reet pain in the pooper

 

[Mohican]

How romantic

Did she get the job?

 

[DST]

Thanks for asking, Mo, but unfortunately she didn't....even though she is actually doing the job just now (it's a real fukking joke at her place). The 2 top guys are making the place hell to work. They never hired the external guy they interviewed either by all accounts. Just a bunch of time waisting cunts who have probably thought, well she's doing the job the now so we might as well milk it and not pay her anything more. She hasn't had a pay rise in 6 years (not even an inflationary increase). It's quite incredible, and I could go on and on about it but will refrain from boring you to shreds, lol. She's in good spirits all the same Takes a lot to knock a South African woman down.

How romantic

Did she get the job?

 

[Mohican]

Hey DST - Tell her to quit. They will freak and give her the job - and she should then make them pay more than originally discussed. My Aunt worked at National Geographic and had a woman coworker that threatened to leave every six months and got a raise each time. Employers take advantage of women and their maternal desire to nurture and help.

My mom had like 20 jobs in 3 years dealing with this kind of bullshit. Got herself from bookkeeper to CFO doing this. Then she got a computer and started her own company. My wife and I started our own company when we saw that the business world did not accept the bright ideas of young people. We have been working from home writing computer guides and online help ever since.

I am sending out good vibes towards her success! RIU people join in and send some positive thoughts in her direction!

Cheers,
Mo

 

[DST]

I think if her bosses were normal people then her saying she is quitting might actually work. But hear this one. One point they are all busting their assess, doing like 60- 70 hour weeks while the agency tried to get more business. It's difficult to explain how her department deal with other departments in her work, but ultimately they are the ones that turn the ideas into Graphic form. Often creative ideas are quashed and revamped, or restarted, or messed around with. Now when you have 1 or 2 Creative Directors who basically say that they need to approve everything, it just becomes a nightmare. It is not strange to see her going to work in the morning and not getting back until the next morning, and at that time it was like every other day. Her and the other Stuidio Manager went to the Director to see if they could do something about it, he looked at my wife and said "if you don't like it, then leave". End of meeting. They are cunts! Simple as. Her next issue is actually getting someone in this day and age to match her current salary.
They told her that they are going to create some sort of specialist position for her, but I'll believe it when I see it.

So you are a Technical Writer? I work in IT and Telecommunications on the staffing side (I have a headhunting/contract recruitment company...among other things, lol.)
Thanks for the positive vibes, much appreciated.

Slainte, DST

 

[Don Gin and Ton]

rock and a hard place. your lady is totally undervalued by those tossers. I'm starting to come home angry at my job almost every day, so i'm looking at retraining. foundation degree in get this, counselling. then on to specialise in drugs probably. be a few years but should be a decent salary at the end. plenty of druggies in the uk.

being ones own boss as you are is the ultimate goal if you're driven enough. does your lady not fancy poaching the good staff and forming her own creative design works?

them telling Mrs D 'you don't like it leave' is a bluff imo. every case is diff obv but i've always known that i can walk from a job on friday interview monday and be in a job the next week. done it countless times. yeah so the pay won't be as good or whatever but the piece of mind of knowing your not their bitch is worth it. difficult if you got kids n a mortgage etc. kinda why i started growing. to prop up my intermittent work. i miss not working at all and just dealing but it doesn't last forever.

hope it changes for the good for you both bru.

 

[DST]

Cheers Don, you may be right on the bluff front, but you would not believe how little respect these dudes have for anyone. They are still living in the time of when Advertising people where Mad Men.

And go for the re-training!! Sounds like a winner.

As for the wife setting up on her own, I have suggested it to her (even going Freelance) which would ultimately fit in nicely with our (or should I say MY) dream of living here and in Cape Town and chasing the sun for the rest of my life.

We got our health, we both got jobs and cash, honestly, we can't complain a single bit. But hey, what would life be without a little grumble now and then about things....

EDIT: It's snowing here and the sun is shining. I feel if I stood at the balcony door I would get a sun tan....

 

[Don Gin and Ton]

mate i have the exact same feelings, right down to the tan at the window lol. and yeah there are a billion or more folks in a lot worse positions than us but it does you good to grumble now and then. i usually get bladdered or off my nut n forget about it for a few days but i know it doesn't help. hence me wanting to get into a gym n do bag work. lol.

had another go at skipping lmao i have the style and grace of a baby elephant taking it's first steps.

 

[DST]

had another go at skipping lmao i have the style and grace of a baby elephant taking it's first steps.

haha. oh it took me a while to get the hang of it, who would have thought throwing a rope over your head could be difficult.

 

[DST]

So here is the 1-9 of tomato seed I have planted. Sorry for the format, I copied it from an excel spreadsheet, lol.

1/16 oz tomato Homestead 24 Lot 24

1/16 oz Beefsteak Lot 54

1/16 oz Tomato Rutgers Select Lot 42

Tomato Arkansas Travel PK Lot68708

Tomato Marglobe PKG Lot797

Tomato Big Beef

Tomato Marion PKG Lot582

Celebrity

Better Boy

None of them have popped yet

Lollo blonde lettuce

What's called Veldsla here - Field Lettuce.

Brought the strawberry's in from outside and they started to flower....

these ones haven't started to flower yet, but they are a few years old now.

New growth on terminal avocado. This has been since adding the Micro wash and some Nitrogen.

I would have moved these spuds outdoors but we still had some snow flakes yesterday

Check the state of the tomato cutting I gave to my neighbour. Even I had to go out and water it a few weeks back, I also put in a little metal frame, but it looks really neglected.... sheesh, some peeps!

Here are mine, same clones from same plant taken at the same time (the Dolce Rosso)....shows what a bit of TLC can do.

Pumpkin

Babies in the making...

Tulips are hardy fukkers for sure. Survived the frost with some bubble wrap thrown over them. They do originate from cold mountainous areas (the Ottomon empire brought them into popularity)

Thanks for watching, peace, DST

 

[Xub420]

Lovin the selection DST! We got stuff goin ourselves!

 

[DST]

Thanks Xub! It would be nice to have more going but it's still snowing here, ffs. Not lying but it's toooo dam cold.

Some of the tom's are breaking ground!!! Sweet.