Posted in grow your own food, self-sufficiency, sheep, vegetables, tagged nettles on 14 May 2008 | No Comments »
According to these people anyway. I’m not sure if picking nettles for processing as they suggest is actually being ‘nice’ to them… but I don’t feel like being nice to them at all, as I managed to get stung on the back of my ankle whilst trimming the sheeps’ feet, and it still hurts! *whine*
anyway, [...]
Posted in being greener, general wittering, grow your own food, house and home, self-sufficiency, vegetables on 10 May 2008 | No Comments »
very hot here today - which actually got in the way a tad, of all the things I wanted to get done - as wilting was not on the list! I burn so easily that I mostly avoid the mid day sun.. perhaps I should take to siestas!
By 4 it was just perfect - and [...]
Posted in grow your own food, house and home, self-sufficiency, vegetables, tagged vermin on 6 May 2008 | No Comments »
Caught in one of the instant death traps this morning. Let’s hope he was working alone. I feel no remorse.. it was him or our food.
Posted in chickens, grow your own food, self-sufficiency, vegetables, tagged eggs on 1 May 2008 | 3 Comments »
One of the best things about growing your own food, is that you get the truth about food, not the perfect unblemished versions the shops would have you believe in. I thought of this today when I collected the eggs, and found a very long and pointy egg. The hen that was not laying has [...]
Posted in grow your own food, self-sufficiency, vegetables, tagged vegetables on 28 April 2008 | No Comments »
Having officially given up on my plans to grow parsnips in toilet roll tubes due to birds, probably jackdaws, ripping them out of the ground again, the parsnip experiments continue, and this time I have chitted them.
I placed them in kitchen towel, kept the paper wet, and folded over the seeds and in a tray [...]
Posted in general wittering, grow your own food, house and home, self-sufficiency, vegetables, tagged butterflies, scything, vegetables on 26 April 2008 | No Comments »
Lots of flowers out in the garden now, the bluebells are out in force, and we have white and pink ones in the garden, as well as ordinary blue ones in the lane and under the trees. Also see a surprisingly large number of butterflies.. are they early or am I just mis-remembering when they [...]
Posted in grow your own food, self-sufficiency, vegetables, tagged sowing; seeds on 21 April 2008 | 2 Comments »
is mostly what I have been doing lately. We have a big slug problem, it being a damp and mild place to live, and so I try to start most things off in the greenhouse, and give them a head start. Of course a lot of plants have to be sown in frost free conditions [...]
Posted in grow your own food, house and home, livestock, self-sufficiency, sheep, vegetables, tagged sowing, vegetables on 18 April 2008 | 2 Comments »
We found a jackdaw in our bedroom. Most odd. Not, that is, finding a jackdaw inside.. that has been a fairly regular occurrence in our lives, in our last house and this. The jackdaws build their nests on the chimney pots, and when the junior jackdaws start to take their first steps, they often fall [...]
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