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admin | August 31, 2007
Butterflies seen in July and August on and around my farm are;
Peacock Butterfly
Comma Butterfly
Wall Brown
Red Admiral
Cabbage White
Small Tortoiseshell
Speckled Wood
Butterflies Farm WildlifeButterflies, Farm Wildlife
admin | August 30, 2007
TopVeg have started a name the tool competition, so can you name this tool?
If you know what this tool is used for or just fancy having a guess then click on this link to enter the name the tool competition.
I had two guesses and both were not correct and I have even tried searching for the [...]
admin | August 30, 2007
During the dog chasing my hen and guinea fowl incident on Tuesday, one of the offending dog walkers claimed that there was nothing to worry about when her dog chased my poultry as they were only hens and we were going to eat them anyway.
Although I do raise guinea fowl for the table, some of the birds are [...]
admin | August 29, 2007
Yesterday my guinea fowl and Hatty the hen were chased by dogs. By the time I arrived on the scene, as I had been recuperating in bed from a 24 hour sickness bug, 26 free ranging guinea fowl and Hatty the hen were scattered all over the farmyard.
An hour later all the guinea fowl were back [...]
admin | August 28, 2007
Pasting up on keets is when the keets droppings get attached to the vent area which if not dealt with can quickly form into large clumps. If the clumps are not removed the keets will not be able to pass their droppings from their body and this can result in the keets dying.
Three of the nine [...]
admin | August 27, 2007
In June I was lucky enough to visit the Farming Memories website written by John (Farmer Giles) where I was able to look at John’s old farming photographs, find out about traditional farming methods and read stories of John’s farming memories. The story you are about to read tells of the time when John was 16 years old and he and [...]
sara | August 26, 2007
Last year I started collecting seeds from my garden and have successfully grown sunflowers, marigolds and aquilegia from my own seeds. Over the last couple of weeks I have been busy collecting more seeds.
I have collected the seeds of the following plants;
Aquilegia (latin name) – Columbine. Purple and Pink varieties.
Dianthus (latin name) – Rockery pink. White [...]
admin | August 26, 2007
Last year I started collecting seeds from my garden and have successfully grown sunflowers, marigolds and aquilegia from my own seeds. Over the last couple of weeks I have been busy collecting more seeds.
I have collected the seeds of the following plants;
Aquilegia (latin name) – Columbine. Purple and Pink varieties.
Dianthus (latin name) – Rockery pink. White [...]
admin | August 25, 2007
Although I started seed collecting last year, I have recently been re-inspired by Colleen over at In The Garden Online who has come up with the idea of garden bloggers exchanging seeds they collect from the plants and flowers in their gardens. Colleen has been very busy and has created a fantastic seed exchange forum which [...]
admin | August 24, 2007
Happy Birthday to you,
Happy Birthday to you,
Happy Birthday dear Luke,
Happy Birthday to you!
Last week it was my nephew’s third birthday and I thought that I would share the cake that I made for him. Luke and I love Hatty the hen and she makes us both very happy. Luke has even adopted Hatty which was [...]
