Tag: Sweetcorn
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A busy week, harvesting and processing & the reason for the busy week 🥰
Thursday: Yes it’s Thursday before I even realised I hadn’t written a single thing for the blog 🤣 Thats because I ha e been so busy I haven’t even had time to think about it at all. Most of the early week was wall to wall blue sky and it was pretty hot so that…
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A bank holiday, more of the harvest & the sun finally came out!
Monday 30th August 2021: Bank Holiday Monday, it’s nice having an extra day at the weekend, shame we can’t do it every weekend. We set the alarm for 6.30 this morning even though it’s a holiday, better start practising for the working week ahead, John has jobs to go to and I have plenty to…
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Harvest time, home grown flowers & plenty of jobs to do 😝
Monday 22nd August 2021: Well we had the best weeks holiday 😁 the weather was just right for me, the sea was as calm as a lake all week long, the food was out of this world good and we rested and relaxed a lot, job done now back on with the work 😂 Shelley…
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Funny weather, lots of picking and slugfest in the greenhouse.
Monday 2nd August 2021: It is actually Wednesday morning as I type this, I have missed a couple of days due to external matters that needed my time. On those days I have done only the necessary basics here, feeding and watering animals, picking and sorting veg and household bits so there was not much…
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Herbs, Hazel Hedges & Hens
Monday 24th May 2021: Starting the week after being out last night and a beer sounds like a recipe for disaster luckily it was at The Harry Potter Studios and it was Butterbeer 😁 so I am ok this morning 😂 All I can say was it is epic! I didn’t really know what to…
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Surprise! Mid week interlude 😀
I thought I would do a quick round up of the photos of produce I took over the 2020 growing season in date order so you can see how the year progressed. I love how vibrant the colours all are and can’t wait to start harvesting again this year. What I really should do is…
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Autumn pickings, a smack in the eye and a house of horrors (bit dramatic Dawn) 😝
Monday 7th September: We’ll here we are again back round at Monday, the children have either gone back or are going back this week. Seems like life is returning to normal except the daily reports of the virus numbers which in some countries are scarily huge 🙄 Cases are rising here, well they are going…
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Rain, Dads funeral & getting on with it.
Monday again! 27th April 2020, not a year we will forget in a hurry, a worldwide pandemic that has had massive impact on the way we live. There have been negatives but I’m hoping there will be some real positives that will change the way we do things both for the benefit of the environment…
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Water!
The topic this week has to be water in its different forms, firstly because we spent a lovely weekend by the sea, courtesy of our daughters for our Pearl wedding anniversary. We went to the Cary Arms in Babbacombe, Devon, a five star boutique hotel and if you ever get the chance or the inclination…
