Everything has to start somewhere. Making Glass Cloches.
So why don't I just start at the beginning? Well to tell the truth I don't know where that is anymore! In which case all I can do is start with today and work my way outwards. Forwards into the plan...
View ArticleThoughts on Hand tools and Tractors.
It's been hedge laying time here and our hedges are a bit grown out. Too much to do mechanically so I've got out the bill hook and hand saw, sharpened them up and got stuck in. Working with hand tools,...
View ArticleWOOD BURNERS for a sustainable future!?
Well the snow came, almost went and then came back again. Hopefully the old adage about it waiting for some more to come along and take it away is true. The trouble is it feels colder out there now...
View ArticleThe tractor problem solved, or is it?
So even after I'd agonised about tractors and whether I should get a new/different one in an earlier post I still didn't know what to do. Should I get a new Chinese tractor or should I try and find a...
View ArticleRaised beds and Chicken Tractors
I've just been reading about 'no dig' on the Scilly Organics blog and as I've been out on the land today I got to thinking. I have tried no dig systems before and was disappointed. The soil became...
View ArticleCloches In The Spring
We seem to have gone back into winter again. It so often happens that February brings a false spring, the birds, the trees and I all feel it. Those days that make you sweat with the burden of winter...
View ArticleAnother wet summer, but look on the bright side.
Well I bet you thought that was the last you would hear from me. Another one post wonder! True I've not been blogging for a while, but other things have demanded my attention. In fact I cannot believe...
View ArticleArticle 9
Well I just looked at my last post (sound of bugle in background!) and another three months have gone by. Amazing!So to recap, the Cherry-Plum jam is gorgeous and sadly nearly all gone already,...
View ArticleDIY Apple Drier
So apple time is here again and having had success with the mark one DIY apple drier I decided to see if I could make it a bit more robust. It was, after all, only a cardboard box, some knitting...
View ArticleDried Apple - 36 hours later
The Mark 2 apple drier has completed it maiden voyage, or something like that. Anyway it's dried the apple we put in it in in 36 hours. I left it a bit longer than was absolutely necessary to make sure...
View ArticleCider Making
Heavy rain here in Wales today. I have to say that I'm not that sorry, we've had a dry year even if it's not been that warm a summer. More to the point I'm feeling a bit smug having completed the...
View ArticleIn praise of the wild corners.
Once again I return after such a long break. You may notice the change to the tag line in the title, 'Organic' has disappeared. That is because we have let our organic certification lapse. However that...
View ArticleDIY Potato Lifting Plough
It's just turned wet here again, but I'm feeling smug. Last week the potatoes were going down with blight, what's so good about that you may ask. This is the first year that we've grown a field scale...
View ArticleHow to assemble a Barn Cloche
I have noticed increased hits on the pages where I talk about cloches. On following up a few leads I find there is a lack of information about what is needed for a barn cloche and how to assemble them....
View ArticlePink Fir Apple potatoes from a new raised bed
This raised bed was one that took some filling, it was the last in the flight and at the bottom. There seemed to be nothing to fill it with when I levelled the path. So over a couple of years it...
View ArticleGrowing Apple Trees From Seeds
For us here in the northern hemisphere it's Autumn. A time of harvest, except there isn't much to harvest, at least not apples. There have always been poor years, but we seem to be seeing a very...
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