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Potato production line
There are lots of different opinions over what you should do next, once you have blight on your potatoes. Given that we opt not to use bordeaux mixture - part of our chemical free gardening policy, an… more »
colour it green diary
potato production line
colouritgreen wrote 1 day ago: There are lots of different opinions over what you should do next, once you have blight on your pota … more »
making hay..
colouritgreen wrote 2 days ago: … while the sun shines After a week of hot weather, the grass that himself cut with the scythe … more »
potato blight
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colouritgreen wrote 4 days ago: Yup, we have blight on our potatoes. Not really a surprise, we have been watching, and getting suspi … more »
homity pie
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colouritgreen wrote 1 week ago: When we used to get most of our veg from a delivered veg box, often the main meal of the day would b … more »
rats
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colouritgreen wrote 2 weeks ago: I hate rats Nasty dirty creatures, that carry nasty diseases. And they are stealing our eggs. At t … more »
planting and harvesting
colouritgreen wrote 2 weeks ago: Finally the rain has let up, so I dried a little washing, and got out into the garden. Well, as I … more »
rain and rats
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colouritgreen wrote 2 weeks ago: yesterday evening, the sun popped out and was surprisingly warm.. as though it was July or something … more »
peg looming and spinning
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colouritgreen wrote 2 weeks ago: More fun at the hobbies, crafting weekend. We (himself and I) used the peg loom for the first time … more »
egg theft
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colouritgreen wrote 3 weeks ago: the eggs under our broody hen are due to hatch tomorrow. She’s a good girl, sits tight, and … more »
chick pics
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colouritgreen wrote 3 weeks ago: as promised, here are pictures of our ‘chicks’ - they are about 3/4 size of the other he … more »
home grown on a plate
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colouritgreen wrote 1 month ago: Himself was working from home today, and we sat in the garden eating lunch, when I looked down and r … more »
win some lose some
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colouritgreen wrote 1 month ago: Last year we had to fight the slugs off the beetroot, this year the slugs are not as big a problem, … more »
first spuds, first strawbs
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colouritgreen wrote 1 month ago: couldn’t resist any longer and dug our first potatoes today. Little on the small side, had t … more »
loving the lamb and the meat
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colouritgreen wrote 1 month ago: A peasant becomes fond of his pig and is glad to salt away its pork. What is significant, and is … more »
volunteer pumpkin
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colouritgreen wrote 1 month ago: We have a volunteer. That is a pumpkin seed that did its own thing in the greenhouse border. We st … more »
elderflower fritters
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colouritgreen wrote 1 month ago: Not that I am becoming obsessed with elderflowers. well ok I am. Had our first elderflower fritter … more »
eggs by post
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colouritgreen wrote 1 month ago: ‘eggs eh?’ said postie this morning ‘yeh’ I said, broody hen you know’ … more »
broody again
colouritgreen wrote 1 month ago: no not me- but our buff leghorn hen has given us an egg every day for the past three weeks, once she … more »
blue tongue vaccination
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colouritgreen wrote 1 month ago: The vaccination has arrived in our area and our three girls and ram lamb have all been injected. S … more »
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