Geoff rang this morning to tell us that Emily who had been sitting on eggs for the past three weeks had hatched! She had been sitting on fifteen eggs and managed to stay on them until they hatched. It was a great success that she hatched eight! So pleased that Emily has managed to hatch... Continue Reading →
Planting!
With my husband working from home and being on standby for the baby, I managed to sneak out for an hour and a half to the allotment. I managed to dig in two rows of our main crop potatoes, three rows of onions, a row of turnips and a row of cabbage before succumbing to... Continue Reading →
Chicks, Strawberries and Weeds
Wandered down to the allotment today with the other half and a small, grumpy and very hot baby. In the short time we were down there we collected a dozen eggs and checked the Warrens (Masie, Doris, Evie and Annie) whilst Emily continues to sit on eggs over on Chris' plot. According to him, there... Continue Reading →
Man vs weeds
Glorious weather continuing, we pottered down to the allotment this morning for a quick weeding session. With my husband uprooting enormous tufts of grass and the ever evil doc plants - I contributed to the proceedings by taking the grass and throwing it into the chicken coop whilst carrying a sleeping baby. So we are... Continue Reading →
Man vs weeds
Glorious weather continuing, we pottered down to the allotment this morning for a quick weeding session. With my husband uprooting enormous tufts of grass and the ever evil doc plants - I contributed to the proceedings by taking the grass and throwing it into the chicken coop whilst carrying a sleeping baby. So we are... Continue Reading →
More visitors!
We had the pleasure of having Lucy and little Freddie over to talk about slings (the many and varied styles and types) and to visit the free zoo aka the allotment! We had a wander around the site and stopped off at the clubhouse for a cuppa before heading back home. The glorious weather meant... Continue Reading →
An evening visit to the allotment
Having managed to coerce my long suffering friend Fiona to move up north, she has got herself an interview tomorrow. So as a supportive friend, I helped her burn off extra nervous energy by getting her to start digging over the bottom plot.... And here she is battling a beast of a doc plant -... Continue Reading →
Planting potatoes
After surviving church with a newborn (a new nail-biting sport where you spend every other second checking that the baby is still asleep and praying desperately she won't scream in the middle of the service!) - we decided to celebrate her sleeping through the entire thing by plodding down to the allotment in the glorious... Continue Reading →
And then there were nine…
So we made a triumphant return to our allotment after surviving a trip down south via a 4 hour train journey to visit my parents complete with half the contents of our house and the kitchen sink. Having survived that, it was time to crack on with real work! Not only are the trees starting... Continue Reading →
Hi-ho, hi-ho, it’s off to work we go!
Overcast though the weather might be, we set off armed with a renewed determination and vigor to get the top plot dug. Fortunately, the baby decided to sleep in the pram for an hour so we managed to get a large section of the top plot dug. The overgrown section will be tackled next week... Continue Reading →
Here we go again…
Due to adverse weather last weekend, our plans for commencing this year's work were delayed until today. Armed with more equipment than ever before (nappy changing bag bulging with bottles, thermos etc) and a small heavily wrapped and grumpy baby, we made a start. My long suffering husband managed to dig over a third of... Continue Reading →
RIP Peggie
The enforced hiatus from allotmenting due to our daughter deciding that sleep was unnecessary either day or night has meant we haven't managed to get on site for weeks. Geoff, bless him, has been on chicken and quail duty for the last two months while I desperately try to work out how I am supposed... Continue Reading →
Annie is a strange chicken…
Went down in the pouring rain two days a ago to feed the girls to find six of them sensibly staying in the shed away from the elements until the last possible moment when they made a concerted dash for their food. Annie however, has decided to take a different approach. Stay out at all... Continue Reading →
Coop plans take a step forward
Arrived down the allotment this morning to find Andrea (the landscape gardener) on site so I grabbed her quickly about our plans for the new chicken shed and base. Fortunately she is able to do it but probably not until February as she is fully booked. We can easily make sure the chickens are sorted... Continue Reading →
Egg production recommences!
So it appears that the chickens may be listening to my grumbling at the lack of eggs over the last month and have started to lay. Only one today and one yesterday but I hope this will carry on! The additional wooden planks which Geoff has put down have been invaluable as they cover the... Continue Reading →
Extracting chickens from the quagmire
Today I went down determined to rescue the chickens from the ever rising wall of mud in the coop. I arrived down, complete with a lettuce as a peace offering to find Geoff had put down pallets to keep them off the mud. He has even moved the food bins onto a separate pallet to... Continue Reading →
Hoeing in the autumn sunshine
Glorious autumnal weather has at last arrived with the start of November! The sun was out fully although the nip in the air reminds us that winter is approaching fast. Making full use of the wonderful weather, we walked down to the allotment determined to fully hoe the top plot as well as attending our... Continue Reading →
Concerning chickens
It has been a fairly slow couple of weeks down the allotment - work has been busy and the weather progressively getting worse have combined to minimise clearing and sorting of the allotment for a while. The last couple of days I have dashed to feed the chickens in the rain and have noticed that... Continue Reading →
Glorious autumn sunshine
After dashing out to feed the chickens in the dark yesterday morning before work, the walk to the allotment in the warm autumn sunshine with a hint of a cool breeze was just what was called for. As I was waiting for the boiler man to come and fix our leaking boiler, I decided that... Continue Reading →
A short visit to the allotment…
Earlier I went down to the allotment prepared to weed as much as I could of the bottom plot as well as feeding the birds. I arrived to find no eggs again - really need to have a word with these chickens! But on the plus side, Evie and Doris are showing plenty of new... Continue Reading →
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