Displaying 91 to 100 of 216 results for John Lomax
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Soft fruit garden
We've identified the walled garden as the site for our eventual soft fruit garden. It's 12m x 9m, roughly and walled on three sides; the fourth side adjoins the barn and…
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First frost
We've had our first frost this morning. It's a beautiful day - clear blue sky and bright sunshine, but cold, so I had to root out the wooly hats and gloves. I've…
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More veggie gardening
It's been another glorious day - windy, though so I'm not sure if I'm sunburned or windburned. We have 5 beds in the vegetable garden; bed 1 now has garlic,…
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Wood storage
When we moved here, there were four tattie boxes in the barn. Stacked two on two, we've been storing cut firewood in them, but they are almost full and we haven't…
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Take care with leg rings
I leg rings my hens - I used to do individual hens, but now I do it by batch. I prefer the spiral type rings as I feel they have a bit of give in them. However, I have used the…
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Building progress report
It's been a pretty quiet week. The joiners have finished removing the floors and external wall linings. They have managed to work around the staircase and the cornice in the…
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Another lovely day
If it wasn't dark at 4.30pm, you'd have thought it was May here today. I was working in a T-shirt and fleece gilet (and jeans, of course). It wasn't sunny but it was…
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Fencing the orchard
Finally, Dan and John are starting the fencing in the orchard. We've had a few false starts and lots of planning but I think we're really underway. After a minor…
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Spring has sprung today
It's been lovely here today - I don't know what the temperature was but it was warm and sunny with a light breeze. John put up some hooks in the feed store for me,…
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Heifers out!
Well, we finally turned the Shetland heifers out this morning. We blocked off as many potential escape routes as possible, put the sheep in the south side of the field and the…
