Goji berries and blueberries had to wait today, instead I moved some hedging plants then replaced them with new buckthorn rootings /stems that had spread from our original plants. Never realized how buckthorn grew and propagated so the extras are a bonus and the spikes will make a good deterrent in ...

Finally finished sorting the breeze blocks today, applied a couple of coats of PVA glue then a couple of masonry paint. Looks tidier but may need to add some "graffiti" to break the solid wall colour up a bit. See how I feel after looking at it for a few days.

you have been busy - sounds like you'll have a lovely fruit harvest this year )t' One hopes so!! Today I rescued the blackberry plants we put in. I could only find three survivors and a may/may not survive twig. Still we shall see how they go...... Also cleared around all the bases of the fruit tre...

So tayberries and black raspberries sorted but still have the frames to make for them. Strawberry beds extended, plants separated and both beds now fully planted up. Rhubarb uncovered, most seems to have survived the winter. Now on with clearing all the debris from around the fruit trees a few days ...

Finally all the raspberries are sorted, they are self supporting so we are not going to put back all the supporting frames and wires. We shall see how it goes, if needed we can rig up something later. Garlic bed repaired and planted up also the peas are all planted and covered so things are moving a...

Our rescued Saanen is not pregnant as she is too large for our buck to reach but he just had to try and ended up causing himself a (hopefully not permanent) injury but that is another story. Can you build him a ramp. Though I suppose you'd have to hold her still or it might cause a worse injury We ...

So we have been studying the books and videos regarding how to tell if a goat is pregnant, as usual all the information conflicts and leaves you totally baffled. However, after saying that, from what we did glean from all the information we do suspect that two of our goats are pregnant, which would ...

We are now on with recreating the walkways through the raspberry bed. We have transplanted loads of rooted raspberry canes into newly dug beds by the perimeter fence but still have a lot more to move. If they take we are considering (next year) scrapping the current raspberry bed as we can utilize t...

Obviously doing something wrong but I have yet to figure out what >shrug< Maybe someone on https://mudcat.org// would be able to give you a hint. It's a site where people ask about folk and blues (and all sorts else, and just chat) Thanks for the link, I have had a quick look at the site and will j...

Not too bad thanks, another couple of lessons completed. I have settled into a practice routine where I recap/practice one lesson from the first five as a warm up/focus exercise then move on to the new lesson. I am currently learning to do small string slides (ONLY spanning up to five frets), but ha...

Warm weather today with some light rain so we moved all the currant bushes to their new location. Cleared up and extended the gooseberry bed, then cut and replanted some of last years newly propagated shoots. Several more to plant up so we are thinking of making another bed for them, gooseberry wine...

For these we just cut and stuck the canes in, they serve another purpose as well which is keeping the geese in the field as we let them roam at this time of year. I have to first move several currant bushes then thin out the actual raspberry bushes as they grew into such a dense thicket last year we...

80% of the raspberry canes cut back, lovely and warm here today.

Not sure if you know this but if a bear has shoes and socks on it still has bear feet! Boom! Boom!
Yes they get worse

Thought I would start a log of what, when and possibly how we do things here during the course of the year. I will try and update as we go along but I know sometimes life here will prevent that but here goes.... Today, after a couple of dry days and before the snow and frosts return next week we rot...