Andrew Roberts

Another clear, warm day, chilly at night though.

I was up bright and early this morning and when I wondered down to the willow plots with my first cup of tea there were the rabbits, gamboling in the morning dew! Now where is my air-rifle. To be honest they weren’t in the willow but under the [...]

I’ve seen my first snapes (the emerging flower stalks from the garlic)! Now we have to make the contentious decision about whether to pull them off or not: delicious they may be, or will it shock the garlic too much. The self-seeded garlic was the first, but the rounds we planted weren’t far behind.

Another gloriously [...]

Lisa’s birthday today so not much work done, just a few drinks around the first fire of the year. There was an amazing, almost full moon that came up about 1am, to see us off to bed.

Nursery Bed: The big event of the day was finally clearing the working areas in the Nursery of branches from the winter’s hedge laying, and getting it all reclaimed and covered in mulch mat. A lot of garlic had self seeded, and when we dug all of this up it gave us a delicious batch [...]