So it’s that time of year again – it’s autumn and it’s TREE TIME! The popularity of the living willow structures are continuing and we’re starting to get the first calls of the season from the schools. We’re also getting interest from fetes, fairs and schools about doing displays. This doesn’t really work with the living [...]
Summer is coming on afoot now and it looks like we’re in for another warm spring – hopefully not the wet summer’s we’ve been having the last couple of years. So what have we been up to – agriculturally?
Garlic – The garlic is coming up nicely in the “graves” we built up at the land. [...]
Just rediscovered this blog I was so keen about last year. Events of the moment:
first shoots of music garlic popping up;
40m of very sexy hedge laying completed which my dad very helpfully came and lent a hand with (phew! 5m a day);
harvested bundled and sold the entire willow harvest (primary schools love em – [...]
Weather: A nice mix of weather up there at the moment. It’s gone back to more normal sunshine and showers, quite close though.
Willow: The willow is coming on well; some shoots are up to two feet long now. The solar molar – or whatever – is still keeping the rabbits off the willow plots inside [...]
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 [...]