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Title: Hello! Mid Wales
Post by: jjones on May 05, 2011, 04:58:49 pm

Hi there :) just made my first post in the thinner&slimmer subforum, a bit of a dense one. Thought I'd compensate here.

I don't spend much time online so I might not be very active on here but it appears there's a lot of info to be had. I'm a young man from mid-Wales. Not a smallholder, not even an accidental one, but I'd like to get more involved. Live at home on a small farm, some 70 acres mostly woodland, but not a productive one. I'd like to get some chickens, maybe some other livestock. I experimented with keeping bees a few years ago and am hoping to get back to it this year, I have paid for a colony, I'm just waiting to see them... :)

I started a very small garden this year, mostly a failure but I'll persevere - my potatoes, onions, radish and spinach have all come up, but not a sign of a brassica! Oh well :D

I think that's all I need to say for now. Cheerio

Title: Re: Hello! Mid Wales
Post by: Hilarysmum on May 05, 2011, 05:30:40 pm

Hi and welcome.  I am not much of a veg gardener either, but that may be because my keenest helper a large black pig, has a preference for following behind me and digging up whatever I have just planted. 

Just thinking that on 70 acres of woodland you could grow an awful lot of pigs. 

Title: Re: Hello! Mid Wales
Post by: Rosemary on May 05, 2011, 07:16:08 pm

Hi and welcome from cool and cloudy Carnoustie  :wave:

Title: Re: Hello! Mid Wales
Post by: Beewyched on May 05, 2011, 07:48:57 pm

Hiya again JJ  :wave:

I would sooo love all that woodland - yep my pigs would love it.  The tree pollen's great for the bees too - hope you get the new lot soon to take advantage of it.

I always start my brassicas off indoors, in trays on the windowsill, plant them up into cardboard pots & plant them out when the frosts have stopped. 

HM - the pigs are supposed to prepare the ground BEFORE the planting  ;) ;D

Title: Re: Hello! Mid Wales
Post by: piggy on May 05, 2011, 11:43:43 pm

Hi and welcome from Suffolk. :wave:

Title: Re: Hello! Mid Wales
Post by: Hilarysmum on May 06, 2011, 08:12:56 am

Quote from: Beewyched on May 05, 2011, 07:48:57 pm

HM - the pigs are supposed to prepare the ground BEFORE the planting  ;) ;D

Digby is more of a follower on than a leader.  He is great at pruning trees though. 

Title: Re: Hello! Mid Wales
Post by: jjones on May 10, 2011, 06:49:35 pm

I now have some brassica seedlings on my windowsill. We shall see if I end up with anything of worth... although even a failure is worthwhile learning for next year I suppose :P

I'd like to get pigs, and I have contemplated it. As I said, I live on family land so I would have to negotiate terms with my pa :P although I'm sure he'd be in it for some chops and bacon...

I shall peruse the forums, but if anyone has any suggestions as to where to start, that'd be great :) thanks!

Cheerio

Title: Re: Hello! Mid Wales
Post by: Hilarysmum on May 11, 2011, 07:39:59 am

Start by getting a couple of good books, then peruse the pig forum here.

Title: Re: Hello! Mid Wales
Post by: darkbrowneggs on May 15, 2011, 01:05:42 pm

Hi there and welcome  :wave:  from Sue in Worcestershire   70 acres of woodland - Lucky you  :o

Title: Re: Hello! Mid Wales
Post by: lill on May 17, 2011, 09:05:33 am

hi and welcome to this forum, from central scotland :wave: