Category: Friesland Farm

I keep thinking I will give up writing my blog but to be honest it has become part of my routine and I find it quite therapeutic so for the time being I will carry on. Unless there is a specific job that has to be done inside a time frame, my days are generally…

After a fabulous but exhausting weekend of family celebrations and with the clocks going forward as well, I can hardly bring myself to get started on the farm this morning. Our daughters wedding was fabulous despite some thunder, lightening and rain, then we had lunch the next day with family, Mother’s Day on Sunday and…

I thought I would do a pictorial blog this week, I managed to photograph all but the cats who are nowhere to be seen, and the baby quail who hide every time you go near them. We are still being woken in the early hours everyday by the dog barking at the fox, I hope…

Luckily there was no one around at 4am on Sunday morning otherwise they would have seen me in the front paddock in my pyjamas trying to round up chickens. The dog began barking and so I opened to the window to see what was occurring, plenty of squeal from my chickens……fox, I grabbed the torch,…

Finally we have had a run of decent weather which makes life a lot easier and certainly a lot happier 🙂 I feel much more inclined to get on when the ground is dry and I am not trudging through mud, will still have some fairly wet areas especially where the horses have churned up…

I have had a fairly packed week this week and certainly an eventful one. They say everything comes in threes and I think that is true to an extent. The beginning of the week was a very productive one, I fixed the greenhouse back up so that it was useable again, no wind and rain…

It is quite cathartic writing a weekly blog, not that I ever go back and read what I have written previously, I suppose one day I will, when I am retired if that ever happens! Even though not much than the usual routine happens during the Winter month and the blog is sometime like a…

I sometimes wonder at what point I should just give up, after being on top of everything, or so I thought, it seems that I am to be tested or challenged to see if I am indeed worthy of calling myself a gardener. After getting ahead with the greenhouse preparations and snugly bubble wrapping it,…

The only topic of conversation across the whole country this week has been the weather, you could not avoid it or the coverage of it. We have had just about everything except snow thrown at us this Winter. Wild and wet is the description I have used this week, at one point I did wonder…

Quick one today as I have been away this weekend and got lots to catch up on plus it’s a lovely day so get busy while I can! I think we had one day of sunshine last week, I used that day to get out on the veg patch and do some work, I put…