Thanks to my work commitments and the various chores and duties around the farm, with the exception of digging up several rows of potatoes, I managed to ignore my vegetable garden for a week. Possibly more. Well, definitely more. Call it ten days. This was, it turns out, a big mistake… Why? Because the last [...]
Posts Tagged ‘vegetables’
6 Sep
What a day!
As days go, yesterday was one of those… It started well enough, a bit chilly, but not enough to make me want to put a jumper on. Why would you, when the sun was shining bright in the sky for the first time in, well, ages?! I started feeding the pigs, but only made it [...]
28 Aug
Marrow-tastic!
I planted my courgettes quite late so I’m only just reaping the benefits of fresh, cut-that-day, home grown deliciousness. Judging by the way that the vines are creeping here, there and everywhere, all I can say is that it’s a damn good job I like courgettes! We decided to let one grow on and try [...]
6 Jul
The woes and lows of a first-time vegetable gardener
This is my first attempt at growing vegetables, and it sure ain’t easy! Not that I thought it would be, but I’m starting to understand why there are so many books and magazines on the subject. I’m also convinced that without human intervention, left to their own devices, vegetables would swiftly become extinct. In the [...]
11 Jun
Making hay while the sun shines!
Yesterday’s predicted rain never arrived so at lunch time I decided to tempt the weather gods and watered the vegetable garden, cursing the slugs who have attacked my courgette plants. Amazingly, this did not instigate a downpour and so I spent the afternoon cutting the long grass in the orchard. Thing is, I cut it [...]
26 May
Bank holiday sunshine
Ok, so maybe the sun didn’t shine yesterday, but boy, was it hot on Sunday!
8 May
Update on the lasagne garden
Last autumn, Jennie and I set about establishing a lasagne garden. I’ve been slowly adding to it all winter and spring so it’s very much in various stages of development and is what could honestly be described as a “work in progress”! However, having read Compostwoman’s excellent post about making compost, I realised that the [...]
22 Apr
When the pigs are moved, there’s time for snuggles
Hurrah! I’ve finally moved all eight pigs onto fresh ground, which is a massive relief for me and them. Ok, I’ve cheated a little with Tia and Bailey and have only moved the 100m of electric netting that makes up their enclosure, not the ark, but it means that 70% of their enclosure is now [...]
21 Apr
From climbing trees to the search for Doctor Who
Yesterday was another wonderfully sunny day and I spent some time doubling the size of the four pigs’ enclosure with their second electric net, giving them a circumference of 100m. No idea what the total area that makes – most of my GCSE maths has been absorbed into the unused dark matter of my brain! [...]
26 Mar
Feral garlic?
A while ago, there were some cloves of garlic in the fruit and veg I get for the pigs from my local greengrocer. Even though I knew the pigs don’t eat it, I still chucked the cloves into their buckets and thought no more about it. Until yesterday, when I saw something rather unexpected whilst [...]
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