Posted in grow your own food, self-sufficiency, smallholding, vegetables, wild foods, tagged fruit, vegetables on 20 June 2008 | 3 Comments »
Last year we had to fight the slugs off the beetroot, this year the slugs are not as big a problem, so the birds have been pecking and eating them instead. Solution - netting. But we practically lost a whole row of beetroot before the nets went down. On the other upside, the wild rocket [...]
Posted in grow your own food, self-sufficiency, smallholding, vegetables, wild foods, tagged blight, vegetables on 17 June 2008 | 2 Comments »
couldn’t resist any longer and dug our first potatoes today. Little on the small side, had to lift a couple to get a meals worth. Very nice. Valor - which also have very pretty pink flowers too. Heard of blight appearing in some gardens in Cornwall, which is only the next country over. So far [...]
Posted in grow your own food, livestock, self-sufficiency, sheep, smallholding, tagged lambs, sheep on 15 June 2008 | 3 Comments »
A peasant becomes fond of his pig and is glad to salt away its pork. What is significant, and is so difficult for the urban stranger to understand, is that the two statements are connected by an and not by a but.
John Berger
I first read this quote in John Seymours Self Sufficiency (although haven’t come across [...]
Posted in grow your own food, self-sufficiency, smallholding, vegetables, tagged vegetables on 14 June 2008 | 1 Comment »
We have a volunteer. That is a pumpkin seed that did its own thing in the greenhouse border. We stripped the soil out last autumn and replaced with compost, and in it were some seeds from the giant pumpkin we grew a couple of years ago. It benefited from the watering of a nearby tomato [...]
Posted in frugal living, grow your own food, recipes, self-sufficiency, smallholding, wild foods on 13 June 2008 | 2 Comments »
Not that I am becoming obsessed with elderflowers. well ok I am.
Had our first elderflower fritters of the season. Ohhhh so good. sweet and scented. yum.
Made yet more cordial, and champagne, and started another batch of elderflower wine. I have not yet published my recipe for the wine, as the 2007 batch has not finished [...]
Posted in chickens, grow your own food, livestock, self-sufficiency, smallholding on 12 June 2008 | 2 Comments »
‘eggs eh?’ said postie this morning ‘yeh’ I said, broody hen you know’ . knowing look from postie… ‘ahhh….’ and a nod
Eggs arrived safe and sound.. well they look it, and after letting them settle for a bit, we slipped them under our broody, who wriggled about and carried on sitting. Fingers crossed.
Funny thing since [...]
Posted in chickens, grow your own food, livestock, self-sufficiency, smallholding, tagged chickens, eggs on 7 June 2008 | No Comments »
no not me- but our buff leghorn hen has given us an egg every day for the past three weeks, once she started laying again after rearing her brood, and is now sitting again. Is it too soon after the last batch? I am inclined to think not, as she has regained her health, and [...]
Posted in grow your own food, livestock, self-sufficiency, sheep, smallholding, tagged blue tongue, sheep on 3 June 2008 | 2 Comments »
The vaccination has arrived in our area and our three girls and ram lamb have all been injected. Should have immunity within a few weeks, apparently. We shared a bottle with a neighbour, and she gave us a hand with the stabbing bit, which went pretty well, although it was interesting to notice how less [...]
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