Chicken Predators
So, we have chickens right, for about 4 years now. Just for personal use, between a few households here. The number was pretty consistent, except for when we'd pick up a few more, or one would succumb to sickness or similar, but we kept building until had about 8....
Turning Compost
I eventually built up the courage and decided to turn my heap of compost that I made and covered in early August. I had this job built up so much in my head, that every other task in the world was getting done first. After all of it (with a little help from my other...
October 2020 – Wildflower Seeds Have Arrived
After digging the potatoes, the ideal opportunity to apportion some land to a wildflower meadow arose. I've messed with various methods of wildflowers before, in a very small way, to some limited success.This has mostly been due to: quality of starting seed - having...
Spuds, Spuds and More Spuds … and Some Apples
After too many distractions over the past few weeks, last weekend saw a welcome return to gardening again, with thankfully more of the harvesting jobs and less of the mundane tasks like weeding. They are probably as difficult as each other, but a bucket of Spuds, a...