Country things....

    Living in the depths of the french countryside has its advantages and disadvantages. One of the disadvantages is having bullocks living in the field next to yours and the "gate" between your field and them is nothing but three pieces of vertical wood connected by barbed wire and sheep fencing! It is very common here for entrances to a field that contain cows just have a piece of string across them. Seems to work most of the time, however, these bullocks decided that the grass was greener on the other side of the fence and they pushed the "gate" over and came into my field and ate my grass! This happened three days running and they destroyed one of my fence lines.I had got in touch with the farmer who came and got them out of my field. Pretty large animal a bullock! On the last occasion the farmer replaced the posts the bullocks had demolished and moved them to a field further away from mine. Oh what fun! In the past I would never have gone near a bullock but when you are mad and trying to get them off your grass ones fears goes out of the window! Alls well that ends well I guess.
    So, what else has been going on this last week or so. "Evie" sprouts, (seed was given to me by my youngest grand daughter for my birthday present) have been transplanted to an outside bed along with Precoce Louvier cabbage. They are now well established and looking good. Over eighty mixed variety tomato plants have also been  transplanted. I am trying a new idea this year. Instead of having one large bed of tomatoes I am planting nine or twelve plants at the ends of various beds. The idea is to avoid blight. If one batch of plants get it hopefully the others may not. In the poly tunnel early purple spouting and a winter savoy type cabbage have been sown. I have also sowed another variety of cucumber, marketmore into pots.
    I have managed to break the handles on my mower again. I am obviously using it in a way it is not designed for! Lol! Fortunately my bush whacker will cut the grass to a reasonable level although not as short as the mower.
     On the animal front chickens are being chickens. The ducks are being ducks and the female continues to lay. The sheep are looking fed up with their fleeces and need to be sheared. The rat population has taken a major hit with our new neighbours cat catching a good number of them.