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admin | May 31, 2007
Today has been a lovely sunny day, so I took the opportunity to plant out some of my vegetable seedlings and plants that are now ready to be planted out.
Jobs completed so far today include;
Planting out a row of butternut squash plants.
Planting out a row of purple sprouting broccoli plants.
Planting out a row of cauliflower plants.
Planting out a row [...]
admin | May 31, 2007
After a day out yesterday, I arrived home in time to get my guinea fowl and Hatty the Hen in for the night. Once locked up safely in their hut I did my usual hunt for guinea fowl eggs.
When I entered the garden I noticed the lid to the nest box was on the floor. I quickly [...]
admin | May 31, 2007
I can highly recommend a Pampered Chef muffin tin.
Pampered Chef is an American company that hosts parties to demonstrate their cookware merchandise. The company was first set up in 1980 and has now extended to the British and German marketplace.
I bought the fabulous stoneware muffin tin from a Pampered Chef party back in October 2006 and [...]
admin | May 31, 2007
Well actually on Sunday it was not so much a cat on a hot tin roof as a guinea fowl on a cold tin roof!
Something must have spooked this male guinea fowl making it fly onto the roof of the barn to take refuge until it was safe to return to the ground. It did later [...]
admin | May 30, 2007
A tractor is a very important machine on a farm today as it is able to turn it’s engine to many jobs!
Crop Spraying
The crop sprayer can be attached to the tractor and allows the farmer to spray the crops with herbicides, fungicides or insecticides.
Planting Crops – Seed Potatoes
The potato planter can be attached [...]
admin | May 30, 2007
A comment left on my site the other day got me thinking about starting an Adopt A Farm Animal scheme on the farm.
In an article about my guinea pig called Guiness, I mentioned the fact that, “My nephew has adopted Guiness as a birthday gift and although Guiness still lives on the farm my nephew can tell his friends that he [...]
admin | May 29, 2007
I have five cats that live on the farm – Snowy, Fluffy, Snowball, Spot and Stripe. They have been brought up to live outside and can therefore easily pick up parasites from their environment.
Parasitic worms are easily picked up from the farm environment because cats instinctively hunt and eat infected prey. Although my cats are fed twice daily, [...]
admin | May 29, 2007
Kite flying is a great way to spend the bank holiday.
My family were staying this weekend and my sister has a 3 year old. They brought the kite so we all had a go at flying it in the paddock. My nephew thought it was great fun and secretly so did all the adults! Three [...]
admin | May 28, 2007
Last week I noticed that the bird box had a blue tit nesting in it with 10 blue tit eggs inside.
Today when the family and I were playing football with my 3 year old nephew, we saw alot of movement around the nest box. I carefully climbed onto a chair and peered through the hole [...]
admin | May 28, 2007
On Sunday morning we got up bright and early to start on the list of jobs before the rain set in. Rain stopped work at midday. We managed to complete another 7 jobs in the short amount of time we had available.
Deweed border infront of kitchen.
Plant sunflower seedlings opposite kitchen.
Plant marigolds in between the sunflowers.
Dig [...]
