08.08.09

8th August 2009

Harvest Time:

Despite the terrible weather it's time to harvest and we're happily eating baby carrots, courgettes, onions and shallots, cauliflower (only one), peas beans and radishes and lettuces. All eaten so no photos available!

Weed or no weed cont:

An exciting week of harvesting continued this week with the picking of all the onions. Of course those hidden by weeds and grass will make for very interesting peeling because they’re so small. Otherwise what a bumper crop! Now they’re drying off ready for storage- glad we have so many sheds we should find somewhere for them, probably beside the big deep freeze that will be full of pork soon.

Guess which ones were not weeded?

The Three little pigs:

Because it was a bank holiday week they have had a stay of execution this week but next Thursday will be D day. They have been taken for a little walk for the past 3 days with farmer J to the hops garden and they have rotavated the post spud patch nicely. Hooray for electric fencing so the precious hops were not in any danger. It was fun to bring them up and down the drive though. On the first occasion farmer J got a taste of a stubborn pig who at least did go home again jiggedy jig.

One man and his pig..

Follow the bucket or not..

Moo ving in:

4 lovely Angus cattle are currently grazing the front field. Unfortunately they are the neighbours but possibly next year? We’ve been sampling the delicious beef from the Armagh Dexter’s- definitely tasty.

How're ya horse?

New addition:

Kitty; found in the ditch by the guys who cut the grass around the village and outside our front! Farmer John was approached to see did he want it, how could he refuse? Well Kitty did turn out to be male but hasn’t been renamed really, not to worry I’m sure he doesn’t mind.

Kitty doing his own rotavating

Busy Bees:

And then there were 3. Three busy hives are now in the orchard with the bees apparently happy and doing all the things bees do.. makes for a happy beekeeper too J

Bzz can you spot the bee.

Meanwhile a certain little lady has taken to crawling and standing and pulling everything- makes for fun times. but this time in the workshop on a rainy day in July she is safe and sound.

Why does the rain turn everything on it's side?

TUNE IN NEXT MONTH :)