Surviving The Night
With all the rain, Saturday night was a test for the coop. Sunday morning its was still standing and our toy chicken who is temporarily residing within, came off only slighty damp. Well its not finished so at least we know theres a small problem before any real hens set up home there. It could just have been that the door was open whilst John was there, leading it to be damp by the time me and the Blur arrived to pick potatoes for our dinner. Hopefully we'll get another chance to test its weather durability before the hens arrive.
Always Time For A Walk About
Through the whole weekend theres not been much time for the veg, other than picking them, but theres always time for a quick walk about. The shallots are all bursting out of the ground, just waiting to be picked, which we did to go our sandwiches. Theres no sign of the purple carrots just yet, luckily we have two other patches which are doing well. Stopping by the rapberries is usually hit and miss, this time however couldnt have been better. After John picked one and announced they were ready I (dubiously, as they've been bitter in the past) picked one and popped it in my mouth. I was more than pleasantly surprised. In all honesty they were probably the two best raspberries ever. Now its just a case of finding a few more and attempting to make jam. After their spraying with the home made fly killer the beetroot leaves were looking a bit wilty, not for long though, they had recovered enough to pick some to accompany the onions in our sandwiches.
Greenhouses
The Blur planted cucumbers recently and after literally four days they are ready to be repotted. Her herbs are already the size of mine which were planted at least six weeks ago. Down in greenhouse two the peppers/chilis now have tiny little white flowers, which means hopefully the friuts wont be too far behind. One of the tomatoes in that same greenhouse couldnt be more perfect. I like to think its village show standard. Now all there is to do is find an actual village show.
With all the rain, Saturday night was a test for the coop. Sunday morning its was still standing and our toy chicken who is temporarily residing within, came off only slighty damp. Well its not finished so at least we know theres a small problem before any real hens set up home there. It could just have been that the door was open whilst John was there, leading it to be damp by the time me and the Blur arrived to pick potatoes for our dinner. Hopefully we'll get another chance to test its weather durability before the hens arrive.
Always Time For A Walk About
Through the whole weekend theres not been much time for the veg, other than picking them, but theres always time for a quick walk about. The shallots are all bursting out of the ground, just waiting to be picked, which we did to go our sandwiches. Theres no sign of the purple carrots just yet, luckily we have two other patches which are doing well. Stopping by the rapberries is usually hit and miss, this time however couldnt have been better. After John picked one and announced they were ready I (dubiously, as they've been bitter in the past) picked one and popped it in my mouth. I was more than pleasantly surprised. In all honesty they were probably the two best raspberries ever. Now its just a case of finding a few more and attempting to make jam. After their spraying with the home made fly killer the beetroot leaves were looking a bit wilty, not for long though, they had recovered enough to pick some to accompany the onions in our sandwiches.
Greenhouses
The Blur planted cucumbers recently and after literally four days they are ready to be repotted. Her herbs are already the size of mine which were planted at least six weeks ago. Down in greenhouse two the peppers/chilis now have tiny little white flowers, which means hopefully the friuts wont be too far behind. One of the tomatoes in that same greenhouse couldnt be more perfect. I like to think its village show standard. Now all there is to do is find an actual village show.
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