The weather does seem to be a major topic these days. This last week has seen the weather get cooler and wetter. Not that the vegetable garden minds (nor the weeds and grass). Everything is growing well including the colorado beetle and grubs which I look out for to squish every morning and evening and whenever I am walking through the garden. They are definately more prevalent.
The broad beans are now finished with around nine kilos in the freezer. Very pleased with the broad bean crop this year. Their bed has been forked and weeded and haricot vert sown, sanquine beetroot transplanted and the last three Black Mountain water melons put out more in hope than really expecting anything from them. They will have to take their chances as no special treatment has been given to them as I did with the other plants. Also put out were some probable chilli plants with some sweet peppers. They have not grown well in the pots and I believe the seed compost was rubbish. By now they should have been quite large plants. Cabbage cut, ANOE potatoes dug up and mangetout picked. Nothing quite like frying up a pan of cold new potatoes with a couple of scramble eggs! Champeau breakfast!!
On the chicken front we have chicks! Eight out of ten hatched. One did not make it completely out of the shell and one we had to rescue. We believe it was the last to hatch and did not get under the hen succcessfully and got cold. I rescued it and my daughter warmed it up with a hair drier and it recovered. Twenty four hours in the incubator to make sure it was ok and alert enough to rejoin the group. It is now back with mum who has accepted it without issue. An improvement of egg production this week with an average of 2.7 eggs a day. Still not as good as it should be!
Plenty to do and as always not enought time or decent weather to get it done! Hey ho!
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