Tag: Grow Your Own
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Harvesting Early Crop Spuds 2023
Maybe not on the same scale as the big operators but proud as punch all the same. Planted Paddy’s Day, lifted and washed today. Three lots still in the ground, along with: Carrots, Peas, Onions, Beetroot, Broccoli, Leaks, Courgettes, Lettuce, Cabbage and Rhubarb.
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Upcycling A Calf Trough
To my utmost heartache, farming is off the agenda for the minute because I’m waiting on an upgrade to my wheelchair so can’t really venture too far. But with the weather half decent I want and need to be at something outdoors. Here’s step one. Power washing one of our calf feeding troughs as it…
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Watch “The Grand Old Dukes Of York” on YouTube
So much of farming – no matter what sector thereof you’re in or to what level – depends on the weather playing ball with you. Today, that meant getting a crop of Duke Of York sown before the predicted rainfall of the weekend comes in.
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Watch “Every Journey Has To Start Somewhere” on YouTube
Into the shed for the first time in earnest this year. Starting to give it a good clean up as preparations begin for this year’s farming journey. Wherever it may lead…
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All cards on the table
In today’s video, we have a mixture of what has got me through this strangest of winters and a glimpse of what lies ahead going forward. We have our first unboxing of the new year as preparations for Spring sowing begin in earnest. And there’s also a look at a new pass time, which has…
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Cabbage Packed And Crops Wrapped Up
And so we arrive at the end of the first season working with vegetable crops. I say season rather than year as it was, after all, midsummer before we got going. From then, there’s been ups, downs, a lot of learning and an even greater amount of therapy.
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Indoor Vegetable Harvest
Unfortunately, I have to admit to being a little bit under the black cloud again over the last while, but my beautiful lady is not only guiding me back to a more peaceful place in mind but gently coaxed and persuaded me back out to the vegetable crops again. Now, naturally, as has always been…