Mud! Glorious mud!

   I have bought my seed potatoes, onions and shallots. I had a nice surprise in that I did not have to pay anything! My fidelity card paid for the lot.
   The wet and miserable weather has given me an opportunity to clear the cobbles from grass and mud outside the front of the house. Normal maintenance work done despite the weather, that is, clean out the coops! As well as that the ram lambs have been moved from the neighbours garden to my garden! Also the adult rams who were living in a paddock at the back of the main chicken coop have been moved to a fresh paddock where they have taken great delight is having some grass to eat! This means I have two big piles of dirty, wet and smelly hay to move to a compost site in my garden. The chickens are also very happy as they are being allowed to wander the garden and they have already found my spinach. No great loss as far as I am concern! 
   In the garden carrots are being pulled, as are swede and sprouts are being picked. The sprouts are coming to an end now and I will probably give most of what is left to the sheep. I had  left my tree onions in the ground over winter to see what result I would get. I have weeded and gently forked their bed. They look ok so far! My over wintering peas are still thriving but I fear the next week will test them. The weather forecast is for several nights of below zero and so I expect there will be a frost. I have pruned the japonica. Probably the wrong time to it as it is starting to produce flowers and leafs. Needs must! I need to have a bonfire!!
   Nothing to say on the animal front that has not already been stated. All continue to thrive but the darn chickens are not laying as many eggs as they should be. Spring is just around the corner. I have daffs in flower and the snow drops on the ditch bank are out in full splendour.

Snow drops 24/01/18

Daffs in flower 29/01/18

2017 Ram lambs in my garden