Category Archives: Smallholding

The compost bins will now start filling up

Despite the fact that it’s still more than a week to the start of April it’s become necessary to start cutting some of the grass which has grown ridiculously long over the mild Winter. During the same period the compost … Continue reading

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Memory Lane, 18th October 2022

Harvesting peppers today. Gorgeous selection of colours. Still a few more to come, perhaps, if the weather is good enough for them to ripen.

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Keeping on with the firewood

Tidying up some of the trees I’ve felled was first on the list of priorities for today. We’ll need to start cutting grass soon and it’s no good if we can’t get the mower out because it’s blocked by a … Continue reading

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Memory Lane, 16th October 2022: Has beans

Continuing the theme of “last harvests”, the very last of the climbing beans, which are the last of the borlotti beans…

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More firewood production

I spent most of today playing chainsaws in some quite awkward places. First to be felled was this tree, which I was hoping would fall a little more to the left, but as it would naturally have fallen entirely the … Continue reading

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Memory Lane, 11th October 2022: Pears going bananas

To prevent losses to the chickens (there have already been a few), today I picked all the remaining pears from the tree in their run (Concorde is the variety as far as I recall). Now I just have to work … Continue reading

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Firewood for next winter

Bit of a sluggish day today, in part thanks to drizzle on what was forecast to be a dry day. Tree work really needs to be getting done though as buds are breaking on some already. So, this morning I … Continue reading

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Memory Lane, 10th October 2022: Old bed, new frame(s)

My “double-decker xylophone” filled up rapidly and I needed more storage for beehive frames, but where? Pootling about the workshop my gazed fell upon the remains of the bed frames that I’d used to make the afore-mentioned xylophone — the … Continue reading

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No dig diary, 19th March 2024

This morning there was proof that slugs and/or snails have been at my lettuce seedlings. In a try next to the lettuces were some coriander seedlings. This morning I found one with the leaves on the compost, detached from the … Continue reading

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It’s getting very tempting to inspect

A few warm days and the bees at home are flying far more. I’ve seen a few visiting celandines, but I’ve no idea where most of them are going at the moment. I’d not be surprised if they’ve found willow … Continue reading

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