First sun, then rain, then sun, then....

2014 Violet Garlic crop

   Then the grass grows. The weeds grow. So off we go onto, so it seems, the never ending roundabout of cutting grass, weeding beds and generally wondering how the dickens does everything grow so fast! 
   This years garlic is looking good. I need to get it dried out and then stored away for the winter. Not so happy with my shallots which I grew from my crop I grew last year. I think it is more to do with the soil condition of the bed that they are in but they have not done as well as I would have liked. Mind you, I could say that about most of the onions this year. A row of carrots has been thinned and I am now thinking of what to sow for the winter! The pea crop is all but over and I am toying with sowing more. I took a look at last years pea sowing time and I did not sow my Champion of England peas until mid July and here we are this year with them just about finished. The vine growing up and along the back side of the barn has been pruned for the second time and I daresay not the last.
   On the animal side we have lost a ram lamb to an unknown cause and our lovely Cuckoo de Renne chicken took it upon herself to die. Probably some sort of respiratory disease but she was just starting to lay some wonderful eggs! One was 93g, about twice the size of then "normal" hen egg. A number of our "meat" hens need to be culled as they are getting rather large. The geese and turkeys are doing just fine.
    So, its on with the weeding, the grass cutting, drying and getting seeds sown for the winter in the mean time dodging the rain! Bring back the sun. No don't, everything will grow again.