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27-Sep-2024: Planting Garlic, So Much Mowing, Apiary Improvements
Garlic Prep and Planting It's that time of the year again - light till over new rows on west side of the 'veg' field, then a bit of...
Sep 28, 20243 min read


9-Sep-2024: Cutting, Chipping, Mowing, Mining?
Clearing Laurel Behind the tractor shed was a large cluster of English Laurel (prunus laurocerasus, also known as Cherry Laurel or Common...
Sep 11, 20245 min read


21-Aug-2024: Cabin Demolition, Mechanical Failures, Miniature Railway Planning
Cabin Demolition At our home we had an log cabin or seomra (Irish for 'room') in the back garden that was no longer structurally sound...
Aug 20, 202410 min read


9-Aug-2024: Onion and Garlic Braids, Making Bee Hives, Planting Herbs, Pillar Drill Base
Onion and Garlic Braids After drying the onions for 2-3 weeks (it's hasn't been very warm this summer), Marisa made several onion braids...
Aug 6, 20243 min read


21-Jul-2024: Compost Bins, New Electric Shredder (broken), Preparing for Horses
Compost Bins We cleared out part of the old slurry pit and built a composting bin frame using pallets and spare boards. Dimensions are...
Aug 5, 20246 min read


28-Jun-2024: New Hose Pipes, More Garlic, Kubota Woes, and Milking Parlour Storage
New Hose Pipes Back in 2022 we hired a trenching machine to install water lines at top and middle of the veg field to have water in all...
Aug 4, 20243 min read


13-Jun-2024: Garlic, Mowing Rushes, New Planter Boxes, Milking Parlour Cleaning
Starting Garlic Harvest We had a very wet May and the garlic stems developed rust - small yellow dots and patches - so we started harvest...
Aug 4, 20243 min read


3-Aug-2024: Apiary, Harvest Update, and Prepping New Beds
Starting on the Apiary Earlier in spring, a couple swarms of bees moved into hives that had been empty since last year. In one case the...
Aug 3, 20243 min read


8-May-2024: Sun, planting beans, more boxes
After months of rain and colder than usual weather, we had several days of sun - with showers from time to time of course. Nearly...
May 8, 20242 min read


Exponential 2
Bunkered down in self-quarantine as the world reacts to SARS-CoV-2, aka coronavirus - which causes the disease COVID-19 - I’ve been...
Mar 22, 20208 min read
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