Category Archives: Smallholding

Memory Lane, 21st December 2022: Winter salads

Posted on April 17, 2024 by james

Winter salads in the melon house and polytunnel, looking pretty healthy. With a bit of luck these should keep us going until Spring when we have salads growing out in the main plot once again.

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Feeling a bit low

Posted on April 16, 2024 by james

As I posted yesterday, this was how the current compost heap looked on Sunday evening. I threw a bit more stuff on and today buried a couple of dead rats in it, but having had forty-eight hours to get going, … Continue reading →

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An unexpected present

Posted on April 16, 2024 by james

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 →

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Get it while it’s hot!

Posted on April 16, 2024 by james

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 →

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A bit of sorting out in the apiary

Posted on April 15, 2024 by james

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 →

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Quick! Mow the grass!

Posted on April 15, 2024 by james

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 →

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New old strawberries

Posted on April 15, 2024 by james

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 →

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Is it Wimbledon already?

Posted on April 15, 2024 by james

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 →

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Memory Lane, 11th December 2022: Don’t they come from the sea?

Posted on April 11, 2024 by james

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 →

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Not sure I can repair these two…

Posted on April 11, 2024 by james

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 →

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