Yet again the week has been busy. With the harsh winter and hot April many things are ahead of themselves, and many are not. Here the elderflowers are out about a week early, so I have my first batch of elderflower fizzy wine bottled. It looks like cloudy lemonade but usually is slightly alcoholic if you don't leave it too long.
I am also starting to pick blackcurrants, and if I can collect the harvest it will be huge. I'll dust the demi johns and jam jars off to make jam and wine along side pies, crumbles, sorbet and just to freeze.
I found a good crop of radishes that I had lost in among the potatoes. They are a crop I like, they grow quickly virtually anywhere as a catch crop the when I harvest them we eat the roots and the rabbits eat the tops - no waste.
Talking of rabbits, my husband was tidying up the garden this evening when he found a hedgehog caught in last years pea netting. We gently cut it free, fed and watered it and off it went. A salutory lesson though, a smaller hedgehog or if this one had been stuck longer it could have had a horrible death. I'll do a walk round tomorrow to check for other hazards. Nice to know that our garden is clean enough that the hedgehog visits.
My bike trailer hasn't arrived yet however, there is some progress with the greenhouse. As you may remember a month ago, six panels blew out of it requiring several hours of work to mend, and still they came out. We emailed the sellers and were contacted on Friday to discuss up lift. That will be another job for this weekend, to dismantle it, but hopefully we will get our money back. Another lesson, don't buy cheap things!
To finish on a good note our pup is coming on well and has a grasp of recall, sitting, lying and heal. Have a good week.
I am also starting to pick blackcurrants, and if I can collect the harvest it will be huge. I'll dust the demi johns and jam jars off to make jam and wine along side pies, crumbles, sorbet and just to freeze.
I found a good crop of radishes that I had lost in among the potatoes. They are a crop I like, they grow quickly virtually anywhere as a catch crop the when I harvest them we eat the roots and the rabbits eat the tops - no waste.
Talking of rabbits, my husband was tidying up the garden this evening when he found a hedgehog caught in last years pea netting. We gently cut it free, fed and watered it and off it went. A salutory lesson though, a smaller hedgehog or if this one had been stuck longer it could have had a horrible death. I'll do a walk round tomorrow to check for other hazards. Nice to know that our garden is clean enough that the hedgehog visits.
My bike trailer hasn't arrived yet however, there is some progress with the greenhouse. As you may remember a month ago, six panels blew out of it requiring several hours of work to mend, and still they came out. We emailed the sellers and were contacted on Friday to discuss up lift. That will be another job for this weekend, to dismantle it, but hopefully we will get our money back. Another lesson, don't buy cheap things!
To finish on a good note our pup is coming on well and has a grasp of recall, sitting, lying and heal. Have a good week.
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