willow
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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…
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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!! 😁
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Weekend waffle
A new episode of Weekend Waffle is live here A bit of tree planting, the starts of a Japanese inspired garden, snow and a puppy!!
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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…
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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We originally made a pledge to go out and learn something new about our local area or visit somewhere each month….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…
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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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Where has the willow gone…..
A while ago I planted a load of willow sticks to produce basketry willow….. Then the sticky bud weeds ate them…. So I went hunting…… With overalls and gloves….. Then replanted the willows temporarily in a trug from the barn!!! Ta da!!!!
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More wood collections
James has cut down a goat willow!! Here it is mid stream, and now here it isn’t, with another puppy photo bomb!!! We have loaded all the logs into Ally the gator…. And popped them in the barn ready for splitting and stacking!! All the branches are piled high in the fields, I think either…
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Meanwhile back at home!
My wonderful friend went to the RHS show in Cardiff recently and she bought me some basketry willow to start to grow for the farm!!! As the banks of the streams we want to plant it down are not at all ready for the willow I have planted them in pots in the garden here…