As I walked through to the back door at 6am, I noticed the house felt appreciably colder than it has for the past few mornings so I wasn’t surprised when I looked out the window and saw a light dusting of snow on the ground. When I went up the hill to feed the pigs [...]
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Sun makes for happy pigs
28 April, 2012
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The sun finally emerged this morning, bringing a brief end to a 12-day spell of continuous cloud cover, heavy rain, hail and sleet. It also brought out Delilah and her piglets for half an hour’s exploration and mischief. One of the three is a monster of a piglet. The others are about average in size. [...]
Read more Waiting to be planted out
16 April, 2012
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The continued frosts and occasional snowfalls are continuing to delay progress in vegetable patch. Outside, the garlic is off to a fine start but there’s still no sign of the broad beans coming through. Inside, we’re fast running out of space in the sunporch as the first lettuces (three varieties), spinach and cauliflower clamour to [...]
Read more Remaining chilly
15 April, 2012
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Harvey, our Border Terrier, was a little put out when he ventured outside this morning and found yet another dusting of snow over a hard frost. He wasn’t the only one: the pigs and the chickens also had their noses out joint over the chill. The first chickens out of the big house turned and [...]
Read more Gardening in the snow
5 April, 2012
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Snow on the ground doesn’t mean the work stops. The new vegetable beds still need to be dug so we all went out to do what we could this morning. Fortunately, the warm spell a fortnight ago ensured the ground wasn’t frozen beneath the snow, which meant the soil was workable.
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