Waste Not, Want Not!

To Freecycle or not to Freecycle, that is the question...

And my answer is...To Freecycle!!

http://www.freecycle.org/

I joined the Freecycle network about a yr ago, but I must admit, have only been using it more frequently in the past six months.

Its a fab place to look for gardening stuff that someone no longer wants/needs, and it's not just garden stuff - people get rid of all sorts, from house items to broken down cars! Keeping more "junk" out of landfill!

Sometimes I'm even amazed at what people are giving away for free, I personally would try floggin it on Ebay first!!!!

You can either post an "offer" of an unwanted item or a "wanted" for something you need. I have posted a "wanted" for a shed and was given a lovely 5x7 shed, all I had to do was go pick it up! Simple!
I have also used it to get rid of various items, such as a box of old videos, bag of teddies, a chimney topper and even my top soil from our huge garden!

All you need to do is join your local groups and keep an eye on it every couple of days as it is first come first served!

Now Freecycle is not the only place - I have just discovered Freegle too, which is Yahoo based groups..

http://www.ilovefreegle.org/groups/

As the saying goes..

One Mans Rubbish Is Another Mans Treasue!!!!

Mel
@Honestlyitseasy
@Tikobear

So here we are!!

So we thought it may be nice for you to be able to put a face to the words on the screen!

So here we are

Claire is on the left and Mel on the right.

Please feel free to come and chat to us and add us up on our personal profiles as well as our Honestly It’s Easy profiles, here is all the information you should need!

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It’s all very exciting – enjoy the ride!

Claire and Mel

xxx

What to fill the raised beds with .....

When I went out to our area for raised beds the other evening I noticed a few of my carefully placed plant labels had been moved. I expect the culprit is Henrietta who is a Bantam Modern Game Chicken who insists that the coop area is not somewhere she should be and jumps up on the chicken house roof and over into the rest of the garden which since I have started sowing seeds is forbidden for the cheeky little chickens! She seems to be the only one that does this, what a rebel!

So before I forget what I’ve planted where I’ve drawn up a little plan!

Now I am by no means an expert in growing vegetables and this is the first lot of vegetables we are attempting at our new house (the ground was like clay when we first moved in we’ve been improving it with lots of chicken manure and stuff over the last 12 months).

I’ve also got some chillies and tomatoes started off in the house and now that the cold frame area is nearly finished (just some last minute touches to do should be fully operational by the weekend!), I can really start getting cracking on seedlings etc. We are going to try and grow our own ginger this year as well, never done it before so any tips would be very welcome!

All the best!

Claire
Xx

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@steelsyrockitup

The Cropredy Plan

Not to be out done by the other half of Honestly It’s Easy ;) I have created my own colourful plan of the garden!

There are a few changes that are going to be made over the coming months;

The chicken enclosure is going to be extended – reviewed plans will be blogged about in the coming weeks. The cold frame will get finished this week, nothing like recycling a bit of junk out of the garden! And the massive pile of rubble will be sorted out at some point hopefully.

The grass on this plan looks quite extensive but to be honest where half the lawn has been dug up etc it doesn’t look that green at the moment so we are going to try and sort that problem out as well.

I’ll get some more detailed plans of the raised beds sorted out as well – at least then I’ll be able to remember where I have sown things even if my little labels disappear or get moved!

All the best!

Claire
Xx

Twitter:
@CropredyChicken
@Honestlyitseasy
@steelsyrockitup

Blooming Thieves!!

Well I can't quite believe it, got home today to find our greenhouse frame gone! Yep, while we've been out, some little sniper decided to help themselves to our greenhouse from our back garden!!! The cheek of it!

I'm gathering from the fact that they left the kids toys, the tools and the bbq that all they were after was "scrap" metal. Well even if my greenhouse had no glass and hadn't been built, I wouldn't class it as "scrap"!!

To calm myself from this, I decided to plant some seeds, very therapeutic!

Those pesky pinchers won't dampen my spirits for home grown veg!!!!!

Mel
@honestlyitseasy
@Tikobear

The Plan....

So I finally converted my scribbles on paper into a more refined plan...more...well...professional (ish)

Phase One: Chicken Coop & Shed One - DONE
Phase Two: Raised Beds built and filled - Nearly Done
Phase Three: Second Shed & Greehouse - Currently looking!
Phase Four: Plant Seeds/plugs etc - Ongoing
Phase Five: Patio & Grass Seed play area for boys
Phase Six: Fire Pit
Phase Seven: ENJOY!!!!

Then it'll be the start on the front!!!! Driveway, and flower garden!
Busy few months ahead me thinks!!!

Mel
@honestlyitseasy
@Tikobear

Interested in submitting a guest blog?

Ok, so here at Honestly It’s Easy we want to get in contact and have connections with like minded people!

So we were wondering, is there any other bloggers or facebookers or tweeters who would be interested in submitting a guest blog to our page? We are also working on getting a website set up as well so it would also feature on that. More inforamtion on that when its up and running! How exciting!!

If you are interested then please either drop us a comment on this post or email us at the following email address

honestlyitseasy@gmail.com

Look forward to hearing from you and collaborating with you lovely people!!!

Best Love

Claire & Mel
Honestly Its Easy

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