Sunny Saturday Afternoon

What a difference having the sun out makes, everything just seems so much easier when the weather is nice.

I’ve just come up from the goat pen where I’ve been watching baby goat kids feet kicking, they’re due on the 11th of June so getting close now.

This morning I went out for all the animal feed with mother, and then shopping for hutch repairs and lean-to building supplies. I was hopping to have finished the hutch today but can’t quite find the right sort of wood in our piles of it for finishing off the doors so that will have to wait.

Growing season is pressing, there are still a lot of seeds that need starting off but hopefully I will start that next week after work.

For now it’s just nice to be out in the sun.

Disappearing links

All of my links have disappeared, I don’t know what has happened to them. They were there when I looked the other morning and then not that afternoon, I have played round with my wordpress setting but can’t work it out.

They should be there!

In season this week #37

VEGETABLES

asparagus*, broad beans, aubergine*, broccoli*, carrots*, cucumber, jersey royal new potatoes*, kohlrabi, lettuces & salad leaves*, new potatoes*, peas, potatoes (maincrop), radishes*, rhubarb*, rocket*, spinach*, spring onions*, watercress*, wild nettles*

FRUIT

apricots^[i], bananas*^[i], cherries*, elderflowers*, kiwi fruit*^[i], lemons^[i], oranges^[i], passion fruit^[i], raspberries, strawberries*, tomatoes

HERBS, FLOWERS, FUNGHI, NUTS

basil*, coriander, chervil*, chives*, dill*, elderflowers*, mint*, nastartium*, oregano, parsley (curly)*, parsley (flat-leaf)*, rosemary, sage, sorrel*, tarragon, wild mushrooms

MEAT

beef, chicken, lamb*, rabbit, turkey, wood pigeon*

Stupid birds

It often amazes me how long birds have lasted when they so often seem to have a complete lack of common (or anything kind of) sence.

Mrs Goose’s eggs started to hatch yesterday, she has been sat very well on them for a month now and been doing what a mother goose should be, until the first gosling appeared damp and wet out from it’s shell, that is when she left the nest. She wouldn’t have anything to do with it or her other eggs, the chick didn’t survive and the other eggs have been put into the incubator.

It’s not just the geese though, the quail are being completely birded brained as well today. A few weeks ago I moved everyone around putting all the young hens in with a younger male and took out a pair that I’m going to sell. The male hasn’t been being the best with ‘his girls’ and is very rough and today I have had to take two of the females out as he has broken the skin on their heads and made them bleed. Quail have a horrible habit of just pecking at any wound and just keeping going, alot like turkeys.

A new lease of life

I’m really starting to feel the effects of the B12 injections, I haven’t had this much energy for ages.

I was working today but so far this evening I have weeded the vegetable garden, collected nettles for the goats, earthed up so potatoes and planted some more out. It doesn’t look as much as it feels like written down but I am please with myself.

I haven’t managed to go up to the allotment to day any work this week, just to look. Birds have pulled out all the peas again, and the garlic and some of the onion sets. At home the seedlings are doing very well, I potted on 56 cabbage seedlings the other evening. The courgette started coming through the other day, and the sweetcorn are very slowly coming through.

In season this week #36

VEGETABLES

asparagus*, broad beans, broccoli*, cauliflower, carrots*, cucumber, jersey royal new potatoes*, kohlrabi, lettuces & salad leaves*, new potatoes*, peas, potatoes (maincrop), radishes*, rhubarb*, rocket*, samphire*, spinach*, spring onions*, watercress*, wild nettles*

FRUIT

apricots^[i], bananas*^[i], cherries*, elderflowers*, kiwi fruit*^[i], lemons^[i], oranges^[i], passion fruit^[i], raspberries, strawberries*, tomatoes

HERBS, FLOWERS, FUNGHI, NUTS

basil*, coriander, chervil*, chives*, dill*, elderflowers*, mint*, nastartium*, oregano, parsley (curly)*, parsley (flat-leaf)*, rosemary, sage, sorrel*, tarragon, wild mushrooms

MEAT

beef, chicken, lamb*, rabbit, turkey, wood pigeon*

The part I hate

Hakin died on Thursday.

I guess the more animals you have, the more are going to die at some stage and for lots of different reasons. And some reasons you are going to know, and others you aren’t.

I can fully understand why some people won’t keep animals.

Up-dates to goat page

Well after over a year of blogging and many requests I have finally started a ‘my goat’ page, it is this far from finished and the photo’s aren’t great (I have very disobedient goats who don’t seem to understand that a camera isn’t food) but it is there is anyone would like to have a look.

The link is at the buttom of the ‘Goats’ page

In season this week #35

VEGETABLES

asparagus*, broad beans, broccoli*, carrots*, cauliflower, cucumber, jersey royal new potatoes*, kohlrabi, lettuces & salad leaves*, new potatoes*, onions, peas, potatoes (maincrop), radishes*, rhubarb*, rocket*, samphire*, spinach*, spring onions*, watercress*, wild nettles*

FRUIT

apricots^[i], bananas*^[i], cherries*, kiwi fruit*^[i], lemons^[i], oranges^[i], passion fruit^[i]

HERBS, FLOWERS, FUNGHI, NUTS

basil*, chervil*, chives*, coriander, dill*, elderflowers*, mint*, mushrooms (cultivated), mushrooms (wild), nasturtium*, oregano, parsley (curly)*, parsley (flat-leaf)*, rosemary, sage, sorrel*, tarragon

MEAT

beef, chicken, lamb*, pork, rabbit, turkey, wood pigeon*

Silver Dorking Hatch

I think it is almost time to give up on the Silver Dorking eggs that I have in my new incubator, something should of happened by now.

I’m disappointed, I was really looking forward to having chicks and the start of building up my flock