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Overwintering veg

Overwintering veg

One of the real assets on our smallholding is our polytunnel. It came with the house when we bought it and, whilst we were initially unsure if we'd use it all year round, we've found it ideal for getting the growing season off to a good

Getting ready for spring

Getting ready for spring

The first day of March marks the official start of spring in the meteorological calendar but things have already started to get a little busier for us as we gear up in anticipation of longer days and warmer weather. After the long dark evenings of winter the lengthening days are

Autumn round-up

After the flurry of activity in September, the last few weeks have been relatively quiet for us. The shortening days are the biggest factor in our winding down as, once each weekend’s essential autumn jobs (mucking out, collecting windfalls, raking up leaves) are finished, there are only a few

Summer harvest

Whilst we’ve been having some much needed rain over the last couple of days, the weather since the start of the month has been mostly sunny and warm which has sent our vegetable patches and fruit cage into overdrive. Gillian has been spending a lot of her free hours

First sowings

The starting gun for our growing season officially fired a couple of weekends ago when our heated propagator was retrieved from the garage to take its place on our dining room windowsill. After rummaging through the seed packets that we ordered in the depths of winter we decided to use