I'll start off with hedgerow photos. Outside my house starts a bridlepath. There's a multitude of things along the bridleway however at the start of it, where my fence is, are bramble bushes. Now I was mightily excited about these when I moved here, thinking we'd have hoards of brambles coming out of our ears and planning all I could do with them. So I was disappointed to say the least when we got none! They looked like they were starting to develop but just never did. So I am wondering if we should cut them back down to the ground and let them start a fresh?
I think we will strim the whole area and see what's what. I think there's room to plant some small fruit trees/bushes out there. I'll chat with Steven about it this weekend. We do have enough on our plates already, but my brain doesn't switch off it seems!
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| Poor quality, my hands were freezing and wet. The area I'm talking about is on the left. Hi Rodney :) |
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| More of a close up |
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| My gorgeous girl, she could run this place single handed, she is so good. |
Seen as though Rodney snuck into the top photo I thought I'd show you the dogs (I still call them puppies a year on) playing in the barn the other morning, whilst I was doing the horses.
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| Obviously something has been here, but what? 15 mins then were here for. |
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| Rodney got bored before Buster |
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| He realised he may be there for some time, waiting for his brother |
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| We didn't find anything Mum |
Finally to the yukky bit. My veg box arrived on Wednesday as expected so I used some of it to go with tea. Jack, my son, love cauliflower at the moment so I was pleased to see one in the box. Cutting into it, the flesh seemed a strange texture and on investigation it looks like slugs have been enjoying their winter in there. I rescued some of it but as you can see in the yellower coloured photo on the top middle floret, there was lots of slug slime (?) all over. I think I stabbed the slug when splitting it down. Ooops.
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| The joys of growing your own (even if I didn't grow this one) |
Happy Friday everyone and have a fabulous weekend. We're hoping to start our next project this weekend, more soon.
Tracy :)
