FROST

    Four out of seven mornings this week has seen a frost on the ground. Tad cold in the morning! Another week slips by and not a lot done! Do not get it! Where does the time go? Carrots dug up and  repairs made the the two Hugelkultur beds made after chicken raids! I have been putting their dirty bedding on the beds and there is some grain/chicken food amongst it and chickens being chickens this food is far better than the stuff in their feeders! Also there is a layer of leaves on the beds and once they have been down for while the chickens love to scratch and look for bugs and worms. Finally managed to arrange for the three cockerels to be despatched. Two went in the freezer and a small one became the foxes dinner. Sorry to see them go but peace now reigns in the garden once more. Egg production is well up with an average of 6.1 eggs a day being laid. That is more like it!

   There will not be a blog next weekend! Its Christmas! Wish everyone a Merry Christmas and a Happy New. Lets hope 2022 is a lot better than 2021.

My Christmas tree 2021

Damp, just damp!

      What can I write? I look at my log and what do I see? Blank entries! Well, almost. On two separate days, clean out the wooden chicken coop and lifted some BF-15 potatoes! Talking of which nearly done with lifting them now. One more lot I reckon. But it has been a very quiet week. Why? Do not know. Have not been anyway, done anything in particular. Three days of morning frost but not really cold enough to stop doing stuff. Must have done something! Lol!

    So this blog will be more about the chickens than the vegetable plot. There are still cabbage, carrots and swede in the beds and there are onions, garlic, squash (butternut and another) and kilos of potatoes in the pantry! In the freezer broad beans, chili's,haricot vert and haricot buerre. The chickens. Well, they have come back into lay with a vengeance! Total of twenty four eggs this last seven days making a daily average lay of 3.4 eggs! Well done chickens! The excess cockerels will dealt with next week and readjusting of the flocks will need to be done incorporating the new hens into the other flocks. That is probably going to be a challange!

    Two weeks to Christmas day! 

Home made short bread

ANOTHER QUIET WEEK

    It  has been dark, damp, cloudy and miserable! Not a very good combination to try and do some work in the garden. Those conditions and short daylight days do not make to encourage one to get out and do some stuff. Very little done this last week. Some BF-15 potatoes lifted (another four kilograms!) and a little forking and weeding. There are now three chickens laying although not every day and the average daily total is now up to 1.6. A significant improvement!

   Yes there is lots to do but the conditions are not good and I am happy to get on with Christmas preparations/decorations. First batches of mince pies made and some short bread to accompany the glass of sherry while decorating the tree. Here is hoping for a drier week (I should be so lucky!) and being able to do some work in the garden.