… while the sun shines
After a week of hot weather, the grass that himself cut with the scythe at the beginning of the week is lovely yellow and dry. This is only in the area that was previously our fruit patch, which will be made over to the sheep again in the autumn, once we have moved the gooseberries, blackcurrants and rhubarb. The sheep are up to their knees in lush grass at the moment, so this area can wait until the preferred time for moving fruit bushes. after a day or so, we turned the hay, by hand, and then today we gathered it, as the weather is set to turn tomorrow.
It’s amazing how much we made on just a small area, all by hand. We might end up feeding it to the sheep in winter if the grass gets disastrously short and even if we only use it to line the nest boxes for the hens, its all self sufficiency.
Hope the weather does change, as, nice though it’s been, and better for slowing down blight, the water butts on both greenhouses are empty, and carrying water from the large water butt is not much fun. The garden could do with a drink too.
Good job on the hay – we’re still waiting on ours, we need it small-baled so we can move it easily for the sheep – so at the hands of the contractor.
I know the feeling about the grass – at this time of year we’ve got too much grass, and in February we’ll have beggar all.
(Our ewes are so fat they are about to go on a two month drastic diet – otherwise they won’t get in lamb and the ram could do with losing a few pounds).
yeh I must admit the two ewes that failed to get into lamb last year are looking pretty fat – which does not bode well for this year….
last winter, when the grass was in short supply, we offered our sheep some hay.. but they ignored it… typical…