Everything is starting to come through nicely now, the two rows of spring onions that I was worried weren’t going to do anything they had taken that long are through. The kale and the rocket are nice little plants now (or most of them are, there are a few that would be if it weren’t [...]
Archive for April, 2009
Counting shoots
Posted in Food, Garden, Home grown food, tagged Garden, seeds, vegetables on April 25, 2009 | 1 Comment »
Allotment
Posted in Food, Garden, Home grown food, tagged allotment, flickr, photoes on April 22, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
I’ve spent the last few days playing around with Flickr, trying to get it to load a side bar with three photos of the allotment on. My idea was to each week take a new photo and load it so as it showed how the allotment was growing from the start and through the seasons, [...]
In season this week #33
Posted in Food, Garden, Home grown food, Homemade on April 22, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
VEGETABLES
broccoli*, carrots, cauliflower, cucumber, jersey royal new potatoes*, leeks, lettuces & salad leaves, onions, potatoes (maincrop), purple sprouting broccoli, radishes*, rhubarb*, rocket*, samphire, spinach*, spring onions*, watercress*, wild nettles*
FRUIT
bananas*[i], kiwi fruit*[i], lemons[i], oranges[i], passion fruit[i]
HERBS, FLOWERS, FUNGHI, NUTS
basil, chervil, chives*, coriander, dill*, mint, mushrooms (cultivated), parsley (curly), parsley (flat-leaf), sorrel*
MEAT
beef, chicken, lamb, pork, rabbit, turkey, [...]
New Chooks
Posted in Chickens, tagged Chicken, egg, free range on April 20, 2009 | 1 Comment »
There are thirteen ex-free range hens now living where the meat chickens use to be. All of our other hens are starting to ‘get on’ a bit and so we need some new egg layers. And they are already laying eggs, one yesterday and five today.
Our first egg from them
I like the number thirteen, ‘a [...]
Birthday Girl
Posted in Day-to-day, tagged birthday, life on April 17, 2009 | 7 Comments »
Today is my birthday; I’m twenty-three years old but I somehow feel age-less, I feel like I have done a lot of things and that if tomorrow I had to stop I wouldn’t turn around and say “but I still haven’t…” or “I wish I could change…” but I also feel very young and like they’re [...]
In season this week #32
Posted in Food, Garden, Home grown food, Homemade on April 15, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
VEGETABLES
broccoli*, carrots, cauliflower, cucumber, jersey royal new potatoes*, leeks, lettuces & salad leaves, onions, potatoes (maincrop), purple sprouting broccoli, radishes*, rhubarb*, rocket*, samphire, spinach*, spring onions*, watercress*, wild nettles*
FRUIT
bananas*[i], kiwi fruit*[i], lemons[i], oranges[i], passion fruit[i]
HERBS, FLOWERS, FUNGHI, NUTS
basil, chervil, chives*, coriander, dill*, mint, mushrooms (cultivated), parsley (curly), parsley (flat-leaf), sorrel*
MEAT
beef, chicken, lamb, pork, rabbit, turkey, [...]
Lymes Disease
Posted in Sheep, tagged lamb, lymes disease, Sheep, tick on April 15, 2009 | 2 Comments »
To start with I have a couple of corrections to make, firstly, Flat Lamb who up until this year has always had twins (apart from the first year she lambed when she had a single black ram lamb, if I’m going to be completely correct) this year had a white ewe lamb and a black ram lamb, [...]
Growing season
Posted in Day-to-day, Food, Garden, Home grown food on April 14, 2009 | 2 Comments »
Well, it was a lovely Bank Holiday but as normal I woke up this morning and wasn’t sure which day it was. What day it isn’t doesn’t really matter when I’m at home, animals still need taking care of, wood still needs collecting and ‘bigger’ house jobs depend more on the weather than what day of [...]
Well, he has finally moved out of the kitchen in with the other goat kids and lambs and is very lovely, it’s so nice to have baby goats of my own round.
And more are on the cards for the next few days…
Sheep up-date
Posted in Sheep, tagged lamb, newspaper, Sheep on April 10, 2009 | 1 Comment »
We have 18 lambs now, including 4 badger faced ewe lambs and some black ewe lambs as well.
Cobweb had triplets again but they were possibly premature, one was still born and another one just faded away after it was born. Her remaining one is doing well though.
Maizie had a giant lamb, it was so big [...]
