We like carrots, eat them in abundance and plant many to meet our needs but, as with many vegetable crops, they can be a little tricky to grow in our conditions. Our topsoil is poor, stony and acidic, we have hard frosts from November through to April, the growing season is further curtailed because our [...]
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Tag Archives: Vegetables
Let the digging commence
20 February, 2011
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As I was growing increasingly fed up with a complete lack of progress on the vegetable garden, pruning and tidying apart, I decided to throw caution to the winds and start digging some of the beds. Normally, I aim to dig muck into a quarter of the beds in November and have another quarter forked [...]
Read moreEven the buildings have frozen
24 December, 2010
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After several weeks of temperatures where the temperature has seldom climbed above -7C and has even hit -20C, the outbuildings are now so cold the stonework is sprouting ice crystals. And those walls are four feet thick. I did try to continue making a new door for the byre but had to give up when [...]
Read moreLinks for the Big Lad’s P6/7 class
28 September, 2010
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The Big Lad’s P6/7 class are studying crofting at the moment, so they’ve been looking at the blog to find out what we do around our croft. I’ve pulled together a few links to make it easier for them. Some of the selected pages describe what we do, others are collections of photographs of the [...]
Read more“Euch, Pa, you’re reekin’!”
20 September, 2010
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The boys just arrived home from school. They jumped down from the bus, came over to say hello and suddenly screwed up their faces as if to avoid vomiting. “Euch, Pa, you’re reekin’!”
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