Tag: Spuds
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Watch “Digging Early Crop Spuds – on wheels!” on YouTube
My first attempt at using a GoPro – well, a cheaper version of same, to be truthful – so please be kind! Here, you get a steering-eye view as I dig and wash two thirds of our Early Crop spuds. Sown on March 13th, harvested on July 14th, yielding 56 potatoes in total, with the…
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Wheelchair, Weeds And Different Types Of Work
Filming on location today. Waiting on new batteries for the wheelchair, but there’s still plenty of work to be done, both inside and out. Early crop spuds are nearly ready for harvesting, there are winter crops to go in and an ever increasing pile of weeds to be dealt with. On top of all that,…
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Sowing Early Crop Spuds
The first proper bit of outdoor work of 2022, two lots of early crop spuds gone in this week so far. Hopefully the first of a bagful of hands-on projects to come to fruition. Will they all happen? Who knows, but the day I can’t dream close the door and knock off the light on…
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Machinery Preparation and What’s In The Pipeline
As many of you will know by now, life has improved immeasurably since acquiring the assistance of a new care company earlier this year. It’s not just in terms of the ‘normal’ issues Personal Assistants usually offer help with. As evidenced by today’s afternoon call which saw very useful modifications carried out in the shed…
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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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We Are Sowing
A day I have longed for, honestly since we closed up the shed last winter, crop sowing for 2021 has begun. While I was in Rehab yesterday, Susie was busily getting my escape hatch ready for me to get stuck straight into bagging, sowing and fertilising our first crop of Kerr Pinks. It’s not the…