While we’re still willing-on all of our summer veg, today I fancied trying some of this year’s parsnips so off I went to dig up a couple...
Nothing else quite compares to the sweet smell of freshly lifted parsnips, and if these first ones are anything to go by we’ll have a really good crop this year. It’s a good job they’re so tasty!
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The plants were starting to look a little laden down, so I took a few off for drying: “I hear you’re a chicken lady,” one of my colleagues said to me today. Of course, I agreed, but it has got me [...] It seems I’ve made rather a reputation for myself, with all my online chattering about chickens. We went to a family funeral last week, and virtually everyone came up to me and asked “How are the chickens?” Given we’ve had a few changes, I thought I’d show you our current flock… Well, it’s definitely summer now here in the mountains of Mid-Wales. The roses are coming out, we’ve picked our first maincrop strawberries from the greenhouse and alpine ones from the garden, and there’s so many radishes and lettuces spilling over between our rows of parsnips and potatoes that half of what we harvest is going to the chickens! After my last post about April showers, we had another dry-ish spell, but May has been making [...] …are most welcome indeed, given we’ve had quite a dry March this year. Lucky for us though, the weather disagreed with our expectations so instead of a day getting on with indoor jobs after a morning’s heavy rain we were able to get out & continue with our springtime preparations. Tom’s now planted out all our broad bean seedlings and filled in the spaces with the remaining seeds. Sadly, there’s nothing to show from [...] Our first daffodils of the year are just about open so I think spring must’ve finally reached us up here in the mountains. The currants, gooseberries and raspberries are coming into leaf too so the garden’s changing on a daily basis. I’m even quietly hopeful that we might get some blossom on our apricot tree this year. Thankfully the weather’s been good so we’re also making good progress with all the jobs that need doing at [...] I just finished planting the bulbs we’ve had waiting since we bought them on a cheap end-of-season deal. Yeah, I know, you’re supposed to plant them in autumn not spring! Past experience says we may not get much of a show this year, but they’ll sort themselves for next year :-) We did have rather a lot of them though, as well as two hibiscuses (hibisci? or is the plural just ‘hibiscus’ like [...] We collected our chickens today – 3 point-of-lay Light Sussex pullets. They seem pretty chilled out (considering) but haven’t yet ventured down from their house into their run. We got them from the people at The Wernlas Collection who were good enough to let us have a look round while we were there. Saw a couple of breeds that I’ve not really fancied from seeing pictures/photos but I may be quite tempted now… [...] We told my family the day after we bought the hen house. Reactions varied. |
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