Tag: garlic
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Garlic Planting Day
Today is garlic planting day! The first week of October is the best time to plant garlic in Zone 5. As an aside: In November 2023, the USDA updated its Plant Hardiness Zone Map for the first time since 2012, reflecting warmer conditions in many areas. About half of the USA has shifted up half…
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You sure?
BooBoo comes with me every evening to put the cows through to their evening field. We have to move Lady Astor far away from the barn where her big calf sleeps or she opens the door and lets him out. He is stood here looking at me for the “bring ’em up” instruction. When I…
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Put on your jacket, Mum is cold.
Do you remember that saying? Something like ‘jackets are things for kids to wear when their mothers are cold’. Well when The Matriarch came out to the farm yesterday (and it was awfully cold yesterday – snow flurries even), she saw that The Big Dog’s coat had been removed last week when we all thought…
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A rare sighting of miss c and Broccoli with Garlic Soup
I have begun to investigate slow cooking. With the arrival of Daisy’s calf fast approaching, and Sheila the Babe (hopefully this week), then the milking and the cheese making, I will have at least another two hours work a day and that does not include the clean up. The barn I can clean with a…
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