weed wars
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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!! 😁
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All around the holding….
So….. deep breath and here goes….. Back at the end of April…. the Polytunnel finally had its skin put on!! We almost immediately started planting and moving some of the seed across that we had started in the house off into the tunnel…. Spring finally arrived after the seemingly relentless winter!! The small boy found…
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Planting planting and more planting
So now the Polytunnel has been skinned we have been able to get in and plant!! So far now we have planted mangetout, beans, beetroot, carrots, spinach, leeks, rocket, spring onions and salads…. Then James has moved our two new grapevines into the corners, one red one white… He has also moved all the baby…
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More weed wars and path building
We couldn’t just go to the farm without some sort of weed wars or work!! So last Saturday James continued work on building the path down to the orchard from the yard, by hand… No digger in sight, well with a little help from his gator! I on the other hand got out my trusty…
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Starting to look like we are winning
Over the weekend we were back at the farm and I went hell for leather with the hedge cutters (although I am paying for it now with a poorly bad hand and wrist) The orchard field is basically now cleared other than some brambles which Mum is coming to help pick clean next weekend!! I…
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We’ve cleared another path…..
Well sort of!!! We have cleared the weed mountain in the pathway and moved out the hideously bent and destroyed gate and the one that was just propped up for good measure!!! This path when levelled and properly excavated will lead from the yard to orchard field, as it will be!!!! Eventually we hope this…