But thats ok. I left the gate open for them.
Queenie is not amused, but in all honesty Queenie is very seldom amused. She is a solemn cow.
Have you ever looked up and realised your day is almost gone and you have not even Thought about dinner. Well Dinner was not my main concern yesterday there was too much to do, but this ability of time to speed up and slow down is definitely most unsettling.
Yesterday it just zoomed past and off it went into the distance, disappearing in a wee poof of cloud. 
And you are left thinking .. what just happened.
Until I put the Shush Sisters into Stalkers Garden. Then things got more exciting. This garden is designed to be cleaned up by the pigs. 
They eat all the greens, root out all the old vegetables and chomp on those, eat any bugs hanging about in the soil, dig into the dirt and generally get everything ready for next year. Sheila tends to pick up stalky debris and carry them away which is useful. 
They have a toilet in the adjacent field so they also leave the garden clean and sweet smelling. I will leave the gate open for a few days. They say it will be warm until Friday. Pigs are very useful little workers on the sustainable farm. They have also been hard at work turning over the turf in the rat house paddock, in the spring John will finish the job with the tiller and we will sow a good mix of grasses and legumes. As you know each field is re-sown every six years so this work is ongoing for the Shush Sisters.
And even better, now you can feel good about the state of your kitchen gardens, because I have get the pigs in to clean up mine! 
We seem to be in a warm wet weather pattern.
Good morning. I had better quickly post as we are in the midst of a lightening storm with heavy rain and thunder and the electricity is going on and off. Yikes!
I will pop in again later.
Love, love celi
The Kitchen's Garden 
74 responses to “The Pigs Are in the Vegetable Garden!”
Maybe I can borrow the pigs to come help out around here?! 🙂
Love Queenie’s expression!
They use goats around here to clear brush — they do a great job! I’m glad the pigs in the garden was your idea and not theirs…
I think the goats would have been a better idea, these piggies seem to sleep a lot! c
Oh, I think I could use some piggies! I can’t seem to get to some garden clean up. I have that same problem with time speeding up and slowing down…although lately, there’s not much of the slowing down! 🙂 Good observation…I thought it was just me! Hahahaha!
Those pigs are such good workers. When you put up an image of a chicken and then said you were thinking about dinner I was scared the next image was going to be a chicken in a pot! xx
Funny.. I have So Many chickens because I cannot put them in the pot! c
Ok: perhaps I had that extra glass of dry white [Oz not Kiwi, I’m afraid!] at lunch, but am trying to figure out how the darling Shush Sisters knew to do their ablutions ‘next door’? Huh, did I miss something? Sure happy I missed whatever that horrid cloud [#3 pic] brought, thunderstorms not being my ultimate idea of bliss!
I couldn’t help but notice the little tree to the left in the daily photo has shed most of its leaves already. Those Shush sisters do come in handy. What a great way to work the land.
I see that the leaves are falling, quite suddenly, and that your temperature is matching ours today. It must be a treat to have this extra bit of warmth. I’m impressed at the Shush sisters; they do such good work. I’ve learned so much about pigs since visiting your blog.
THANKS FOR THE EDUCATION ABOUT THE USEFULNESS OF PIGS; I HAD NO Idea.
Oh! The sisters must be soo happy with that arrangement 😉 Your farm looks great, all green.
Good morning!
How did Queenie’s head get so dirty? Has she been rolling in the mud with the pigs? I bet the Shush sisters are just thrilled to be able to root around in the vegetable garden and do what they like to do. 🙂
Loved the black and white image C…how about some more??
I do like black and white.. c
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