Tyddyn Bryn

garden

• The Slugs are Coming!!!

  

  But please don’t get out the slug pellets!! As they have such a detrimental effect on our wildlife, for example poisoning our now at risk hedgehogs!! Using wool in the garden can be an effective way to deter slugs. Here’s how you can utilise it: Besides deterring slugs, wool has the added benefits of retaining…

  Ellie

  May 22, 2024

  Garden, Sustainability, Wildlife, wool, Working the land

  garden, gardening, Livestock, plants, self sufficiency, sheep, smallholding, weed wars, Wildlife, wool

• Smallholding update!

  

  Living the dream!!! So many people say this to us!! And it always makes me laugh a little, yes in so very many ways we are living the dream, but I really don’t think a lot of people realise how much hard work the dream is!! Take this week for example!! All the rain and…

  Ellie

  November 15, 2020

  animals, Building work, News, Plans, The tin hut, Wanderings, Working the land

  building, building work, clearing, fields, flooding, garden, gardening, grow your own, grow your own food, Livestock, ponies, sheep, smallholding, tin hut, vegetables, water, weeds, willow

• What’s doing??

  We have been busy as bees round the holding still, but since the start of lockdown in March we have not had any significant rainfall!!! 10 weeks!! Things are tinder dry outside…. we are having to regularly water everywhere and currently just the other side of our nearest village there is a forestry and field…

  Ellie

  June 3, 2020

  animals, Building work, Food and drink, Sustainability, Working the land

  Big Field, building work, cordial, digging, elderflower, fields, garden, gardening, gates, hedgerows, hedges, horses, Livestock, nettles, Orchard, orchard field, plants, ponies, Rough Pasture, self sufficiency, sheep, Small field, smallholding, vegetables, water, weed wars, weeds, wine, Yard

• All go round here!!

  So over the past few days we have been working hard to get things sorted, built, planted, weeded and moved!! We have weeded both large raised beds, and I have started to plant seeds for veg in there, using my scaffolding plank as a bridge across to stop me from stomping all over the bed!…

  Ellie

  March 26, 2020

  Fruit and vegetables, Garden, Uncategorized, Working the land

  digging, garden, gardening, muck, muck spreading, plants, self sufficiency, smallholding, vegetables

• So plans for Tyddynbryn!!

  Social distancing smallholding style!! We have an absolute load of work to get on with here on the smallholding and with the nice dry weather that has started we have made a start!! Moving the chickens and ducks to new turf. Wood chipping paths and flower beds and around new raised beds! Having cleared the…

  Ellie

  March 22, 2020

  Fruit and vegetables, Garden, journal, News, The tin hut, Working the land, yarn

  building, building work, crafting, digging, fruit, fruit cage, garden, gardening, log pile, logs, path, plants, self sufficiency, smallholding, tin hut, vegetables, weed wars, yarn

• Weekend waffle

  A new episode of Weekend Waffle is live on the YouTube channel A withybed built and you can see what we have be up to in the Polytunnel!! It’s all rather exciting!! 😁

  Ellie

  February 10, 2019

  Building work, Fruit and vegetables, Garden, Podcast, Sustainability, Working the land

  building work, fruit, garden, gardening, hedges, plants, Podcast, smallholding, vegetables, views, willow, Woodland, woodlands, woodwork

• A week’s worth of vlogs!!

  I promised myself I’d be better at Blogging as well as Vlogging…. but life kinda happens!! Anyway here are the links for the blogs this week Something new Sunday Makers Monday What we do Wednesday Sustainable Saturday Also I’ve managed a load of baking this week!! 😁

  Ellie

  February 9, 2019

  Children, Craftiness, Garden, Life with a toddler, Podcast, Sustainability, Working the land

  building, building work, chimney sweep, chimneys, crafting, Esse, flues, garden, gardening, knitting, Podcast, Polytunnel, self sufficiency, slurry pit, smallholding, socks, sweeping, vegetables, weed wars

• Weekend waffle

  So summation Saturday and Sunday wasn’t working for me as a title for the weekend chat/catch up vlogs…. it didn’t sit right…. So I was up feeding the smallest boy a few nights ago and a Title came to me for these vlogs!! Weekend waffle!!! Hurrah!!! Any way the next instalment is up on the…

  Ellie

  January 19, 2019

  Building work, Firewood, Fruit and vegetables, Garden, Podcast, The tin hut, Working the land

  building work, demolition, digger, Firewood, garden, gardening, logs, path, plants, Podcast, Rough Pasture, self sufficiency, smallholding, tin hut, trees, willow

• A few little videos

  I’ve added a few new videos to the YouTube Channel!!! Some tours of the animals and I’m planning a weekly ish….. vlog about the happenings on the smallholding!! Here is Episode one!!

  Ellie

  July 29, 2018

  Food and drink, Fruit and vegetables, Garden, Life with a toddler, Livestock, News, Plans, Podcast, Wanderings, Wildlife, Woodland, Working the land

  barns, Big Field, building work, clearing, digging, fencing, fields, fruit, fruit cage, garden, gardening, gates, hedgerows, hedges, Holding Field, Livestock, nettles, Orchard, orchard field, plants, Podcast, rocks, Rough Pasture, self sufficiency, sheep, slurry pit, Small field, smallholding, stream, trees, vegetables, views, water, Waterways, weed wars, weeds, willow, wood, Woodland, woodlands

• Day tripping!!

  We originally made a pledge to go out and learn something new about our local area or visit somewhere each month…. well we missed a few, time got away from us, jobs came up, regular chores took over…. and oh yes we had a beautiful new baby!! So we have made up for it recently…

  Ellie

  June 10, 2018

  Day tripping, Garden, Wanderings, Wildlife

  bees, day trip, garden, gardening, orchard field, planting, plants, Rough Pasture, smallholding, trees, Wildlife, willow