hedgerows
-
Smallholding Sunday
A goal setting post for the smallholding this year
-
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…
-
A few updates!!
Things are starting to grow in the Polytunnel and the fruit cage has a heap of green strawberries!! James has built the majority of the first long raised beds!! Just awaiting delivery of the blocks for the rest of this bed and the second now!! But we could wait and started to plant!!! Beans this…
-
Sheepy shenanigans
So…. back in February a Beulah speckled face sheep appeared on our yard…. we tried everything to find its owner, contacted ALL the agencies had animal health out, and the animal health lady checked her databases for us to try to trace the owner…. no avail… so we advertised on the gate post…. and fourteen…
-
Busy weeks!!
So the past two weeks have been filled with visitors and LOTS of outside work….. not much time for crafting except in between visitors and knitting of an evening!! We started with a few days with my sister and niece and nephew!! Someone was very pleased with his visitors!! And we had wall building round…
-
Escaping sheep….
The second sheep related mayhem….. I was stood surveying the brambles left to hack up and something caught my eye from the corner near where we buried Polly… A white fluffy something, standing staring back at me chewing happily away on a mouthful of contraband grass!!! Damn sheep have made it the through the gap…
-
Another weekend at the farm!
Last weekend we went to the farm with my Mum and Dad, so naturally we got a few jobs done!! Mum and I did some extreme sloe picking, meaning the hedgerow needed cutting back from the gate a smidge and we could reach some of the really good sloes so…. Stihl motor plus extendy chain…
-
Wildlife in the banks
I found a few lovely specimens of plant-life nestled in the banks of our hedgerows and borders on the May bank holiday!!! Any help identifying the unnamed hoots would be greatly appreciated!! I appear to have left the book on my newly made shelving unit in the hovel!!! Borage? Bluebells Red campion? More bluebells and…..…
-
My first jobs!!
Finally after fussing the baby St. Bernard next door and a bit of pootling about I gained possession of the spade!!!! Alleluiah!!!! I snatched up the spade, loaded it into my wheelbarrow and left the men folk mulling over their newly dug ditch and Mum cutting back the cotoneaster on the front of the building.…