Tree Planting – Day 4
Today was a good day. When is a day standing in a muddy field in the pouring rain not a good day? Well, today … I got in the zone! I only found out on Saturday that Lisa had half-term […]
Category: Up the Land
Trees and snow at dawn
By getting up on the hill by sunrise, Lisa and I mananged to get 120 trees planted before we decided to retreat from the snow and get home while we could! That’s 2720 so far, 3280 to go.
Bryn Helyg Coed – Planting Plan
After much paper work, book learning, investigations, converstations and “OMG, what am I taking on here!” Lisa and I are on the verge of planting up Bryn Helyg Coed! I’ve just finished the planting plan: 6000 native broadleaves planted over […]
Willow season hotting up
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 […]
Garlic Graves
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 […]
Willow harvest, garlic tops and hedge laying
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 […]
Vegetable gate
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 […]
Rabbits
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! […]
First snapes and rabbits spotted
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. […]
Lisa’s Birthday
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.