(laughter). The Rat House paddock is starting to show its green though the ground is still so cold it is taking its time coming up.
I have had to let the stock out on the fields before they are quite ready, (I would say the grass is three weeks behind normal growth) this is bad pasture management but I am almost out of hay. I need to save the last few bales for Daisy’s milking treat and the pigs eat a fair bit.
Below is the Dairy Mistress paddock (sown last year) and when it is about three inches higher, I shall start to graze it using the electric fence.
It is also very slow to start this year but once the ground warms up it will spring into action. ‘Scuse the pun.
The Haymaker’s Field was left with good cover last year so it is way ahead of the rest. The dogs and I inspect each field on our morning and evening walks
The house is still a building site. The roofers keep setting new dates as the rain and wind hinder plans. The latest date is this Monday which is the date for the drywaller to come as well. So we shall see. The exterior cladding is ready to go on too. So once they all start work it will be full steam ahead (I hope).
Good morning. Today is Saturday here so I have help for the heavy stuff. We are going to open up the potato bed, clear the strawberry fields and try to recover the blueberries. I desperately want blueberries but along with the hazelnuts they just will not thrive. My soil is the wrong type. Too acidic or something. Compost and liquid worm fertiliser are my main additives so if these don’t work I might have to give up. Such a bore. But one of my garden rules is to grow what wants to grow in my environment. Difficult crops are frowned upon. Sad. I did want blueberries and hazelnuts.
Isn’t it just delightful about the moon? That last night we were all looking out our bedroom windows at the same moon. I know I knew this in some part of my brain but when I fully realised that you, (over in Australia and South Africa and France and England, and Scotland and Germany and Spain and Turkey and Georgia and all the other countries you come from that I don’t even know about) are all looking at the same moon that I am here in the US. Well. That gave me a warm fuzzy feeling.
Have a lovely warm day.
love your fuzzy friend, celi
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64 responses to “green, the good stuff”
My friends have grown blueberries in a big pot on their deck. That’s just one plant, but it gave a lot of blueberries. Maybe in a pot you can get the mix just right.
That was such a good moon! me and the dogs spent a good time watching it climb all golden thru the city sky, backlighting the clouds like some crick your neck in stately home stairwell, all painted with cherubim and glory… i love that we share the moon and so pleased to see you greening up over there. Two starlings are busy worming on our little pocket of lawn, now it’s been cut, I hope they find the chafer grubs too xxx joanna
So good to get reader working and catch up glad green has entered your world as well I left on March 27th with 3 to 4 foot high snow banks and came home to Forsythia I cut and placed in vase all open and snow hardly a trace left 🙂 Life is GOOD!!!
Nothing more exciting than spring green!