Greetings! And welcome to the Garden of Earthly Delights! Courgette, Hawthorne, Aquilegia and Clematis all early and beautiful! While the squash "Crown Prince" flourishes on the Pig Poo Pile. Ah, the Romance!
Did you enjoy the Summer? It was lovely while it lasted, wasn't it? However, here we are, back in the English Weather zone. We have a weatherstationette in the garden and it registered an inch of rain last week. You would not believe how long the grass is on the back lawn!
Everything else is doing quite well, now the soil is really damped down things will take off like rockets once the sun comes out again. There is one cabbage that is getting really huge - I'm going to let it set seed and use that for next year because it seems, from more experienced gardeners than I, that particular plant likes our conditions. This means that you can selectively "breed" a cabbage for your own garden! Genetic Modification for the Home!
Chickens are not doing their job very well at the moment. "Wet Legs; No Eggs" is the name of the game. We only have 7 hens and three of those are banties since the blinkin' Bernard Matthews Avian Flu Importation. I'm having to BUY eggs! Saving up now for some POL (Point Of Lay) pullets (young hens) of the Welsummer breed who lay beautiful chocolate-brown eggies.
Piggies are also growing. More pictures follow. Winston a bit hen-pecked, but is fighting back with a well aimed nose at the trough, and seems to own all the best scratching posts. They are moving tomorrow - Hubby is enlarging their enclosure so they can destroy more of the grazing and grow more pork for the freezer! As you will see, there is plenty of mud for a sun-protecting wallow and so they are looking forward to a more grassy few months.
Oh, and, by the way, if there is anything you would like me to post a picture of that's not here today, either leave a comment or drop me an email. 'k?
Everything else is doing quite well, now the soil is really damped down things will take off like rockets once the sun comes out again. There is one cabbage that is getting really huge - I'm going to let it set seed and use that for next year because it seems, from more experienced gardeners than I, that particular plant likes our conditions. This means that you can selectively "breed" a cabbage for your own garden! Genetic Modification for the Home!
Chickens are not doing their job very well at the moment. "Wet Legs; No Eggs" is the name of the game. We only have 7 hens and three of those are banties since the blinkin' Bernard Matthews Avian Flu Importation. I'm having to BUY eggs! Saving up now for some POL (Point Of Lay) pullets (young hens) of the Welsummer breed who lay beautiful chocolate-brown eggies.
Piggies are also growing. More pictures follow. Winston a bit hen-pecked, but is fighting back with a well aimed nose at the trough, and seems to own all the best scratching posts. They are moving tomorrow - Hubby is enlarging their enclosure so they can destroy more of the grazing and grow more pork for the freezer! As you will see, there is plenty of mud for a sun-protecting wallow and so they are looking forward to a more grassy few months.
Oh, and, by the way, if there is anything you would like me to post a picture of that's not here today, either leave a comment or drop me an email. 'k?
As you can see, Winston is starting to show an interest in Lilly - Dirty Boy! I think he's just checking out who's scratching at his place. My goodness they've made a mess of the grass!
Anyway, as a PS, I have written to Bob Blizzard, Lab. MP for Waveney (my MP), Bernard Matthews CEO and DEFRA to complain that, although £600,000 is to be paid to the factory that caused the "outbreak" of Avian Flu, those of us who kept to the letter of the law have been offered Zilch, Nada, Nowt, Nothin', Zero, not one iota of compensation for the two-thirds of my flock that I had to destroy due to their greed. I have received a reply from Good Ol' Bob, but, strangely, none from BM! I'll keep you posted!
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