elderflower season
15 May 2008 by colouritgreen
Yesterday, just before the thunderstorm arrived, we found one solitary elderflower head open. With excitement we searched the hedgerows and managed to find the only four heads out. Picked.. and elderflower champagne is now brewing. Oh, I do long for that first glass of ice cold fizzy elderflower champagne. The true taste of summer.
Not.. that it seems very summery at the mo, the heavens truly opened and finally my parched vegetable garden got a drink. The water butts filled up yay! and the slugs and snails that had largely been leaving us alone emerged, not so yay.. Still, himself did the ’slug run’ making a breakfast snack for the hens.
The rains also give us a chance to do some indoorsy things.. like the on going kitchen destruction. I think we have got to the worst part, and now things are improving. Have a corgi (clever dogs those corgis) coming to plumb in the ‘modern’ gas cooker, tomorrow and we have been cutting up and rebuilding kitchen units… recycling them into something useful.
In between showers.. and other tedious events like.. jobs, we have been planting out yet more plants,.. and earthing up the spuds. If only someone could give a definite answer on when the last frost will be… despite holding off planting until the begining of May.. they are all outgrowing their pots and wanting in the garden…
Quote - “Still, himself did the ’slug run’ making a breakfast snack for the hens.”
Brilliant - I wouldn never of thought of feeding the blighters to the hens - do they relish them?
well, I had read that you should not feed snails to your hens as they pick up parasites this way.. but ours have a large run and eat what they want anyway.. so I figure that one is out of hte window. Himself goes out ’slugging’ at night - protecting our plants from the slugs and snails, and bungs them in a pot.. which he chucks down in the morning. hens rush over and scoff.
ducks are better.. particularly at snails.. but we dont have any. Tempting to get some just for the snail disposable…