From the chicken shed

Back at home in the chicken shed (bantams to be precise) we have had a broody hen sitting on eggs for the last 23 days and today was the day they decided to break free from their shells, as I write one is still in there but we can here it chirping from inside. Just wanted to share the photo's.

Time for another (overdue) catch up

Not a lot apart from sowing seeds and watering has been done for the last 4 or 5 weeks since the last blog. The hard work is done, just weeding, weeding, watering and weeding really right now. Lots of young seedlings and plants in the greenhouse which will go out in a couple of weeks when I return from holiday.

Did put some young brasica's out a couple of weeks ago unprotected, and guess what, the birds had a feast, so seeds sowed again, netting purchased and I'll try again in a couple of weeks, all part of the learning curve I suppose.

Also disappointed with my rhubarb as it spectacularly bolted and went to seed so looks like no rhubarb this year, oh well, two young crowns sown and also a packet of seed sown so plenty of rhubarb in the future.



You can begin to see that things are coming along now, slabs and sleepers obtained from family members are being put to good use, potatoes are coming through and the onioins and garlic are really pushing on, what can not be seen in these pics are the young seedlings pushing through.