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Category Archives: Smallholding
An unexpected present
My daughter arrived home yesterday with a car load of cardboard that her employer didn’t want. He’d told her to put it in the bin and she told him that I had a better use for it to make no … Continue reading
Get it while it’s hot!
As we put a lot of material into the compost heap this weekend I thought I’d check the temperature. I really ought to find some convenient way to use at least some of that heat, but this far I don’t … Continue reading
A bit of sorting out in the apiary
Despite the high winds and horizontal rain showers I decided that today would be a good day to sort through kit in the apiary and work out if there was anything more I needed as I got around my apiaries … Continue reading
Quick! Mow the grass!
The grass has been growing steadily this winter thanks to the relatively mild temperatures and it’s generally been way too wet to mow it, so the lawn and grass in the vegetable plot were starting to look like a jungle. … Continue reading
New old strawberries
Whilst on the topic of strawberries, I’ve also now dug all of the remaining plants out of the old raised strawberry bed. I think there are around fifty in total. They’ve all been put into individual pots and as many … Continue reading
Is it Wimbledon already?
I decided to remove the fleece that I’ve had over the new strawberry plants now the weather is a little warmer. Mostly it was there to keep the deer off whilst they got established anyhow. All the plants are looking … Continue reading
Memory Lane, 11th December 2022: Don’t they come from the sea?
Is what everyone I’ve shown these to says. I don’t know why. It seems to be a very common misconception, and one that I shared myself for a long time. Regardless I have now peeled and removed the flesh and … Continue reading
Not sure I can repair these two…
My last two wooden brood boxes that I’d put aside to repair — for the last few years they’ve been home to a colony that swarmed into them when they were stacked up full of frames that I was intending … Continue reading
Memory Lane, 9th December 2022: Overwintering tomatoes
In September I took cuttings from a number of tomato plants and left them in the greenhouse in jars of water. Those that produced roots were potted up and then moved indoors into a bay window when the weather became … Continue reading
Beehive repair thoughts
I have some old boxes that were either made the wrong size (depth) or have shrunk over the many years they’ve been out in the open. Some of them I’ve extended back to the intended size with pieces of timber … Continue reading