The number of chicken you can keep and their relative chicken happiness is really determined by the space they have to run around in. While the Eglu provides ample sleeping quarters for up to about 8 hens, the standard 1m run really isn’t sufficient for any more than 2, and even then you’ll need to [...]
The weather has been horrendous in the UK this year. Normal growing seasons were pushed back, so everything has been a late starter – possibly too late for a lot of it. After a brief week of sunshine in June, another week of flood-level downpours meant anyone who was daring enough to actually plant stuff [...]
I haven’t posted in a while as things in the garden have been really busy. If you check out the sidebar, you’ll see we’ve been harvesting some terrible garlic, onions, and lots of lovely blackcurrants; but for the most part the constant rain has really messed with everything – stunting growth, triggering different phases, and [...]
For those of you who just time-travelled into 2012 from either the very far future or the fairly distant past, you may not have heard of FreeCycle. To put it bluntly, it’s a mailing list, with one for each major town. Try to keep your excitement contained there. People post stuff they don’t want to [...]
After a short respite, the ridiculous rainy weather is back again. A quick trip to the allotment when the rain stopped for a day, and I found out exactly why you should never leave the allotment for a whole month while it’s raining in Spring. Put simply: everything has grown back again. It’s sad to [...]
As research for an article on creative video projects you can do, I came across a site called Stupeflix. It’s really easy to upload your source videos or pictures, edit them online and add title screens etc – and there’s lots of themes to choose from. I made this in about 10 minutes from some [...]
Well, the winter slowed us down a bit, but we’ve back up the allotment a few weekends now so I thought I’d post a quick update on progress so far. We managed to turn over a good part of it that wasn’t too grown over first. We also burnt all the brambles we’d pulled out so [...]
This is by far my favourite bread recipe, ever, and can pretty much become an entire meal in itself. Fantastic accompanied by sour cream and chives dip, or just spreadable cheese! I don’t even want to think how many salaries might be in this. [Note: If you're viewing this is a feed somewhere, click through [...]
I had always gone on the assumption that allotments had a huge waiting list, and looking at the landshare site where you find like-minded individuals in your local area to petition the local council revealed one particular group of locals with the slogan “let’s beat the 30 year waiting lists in Sutton!” – so naturally, [...]
Over the last few months or so, I’ve been playing around with winemaking and just started a batch of ‘hard’ cider. We have a prolific vine running along the fence, so that’s mainly what prompted me to try it. That, and the idea that I could make my own alcohol, mostly for free, is something [...]
A box of grapes to make some wine, and some random stuff
Cleared out the poly tunnel today to make way for a greenhouse, an found a few monster cucumbers that had been hiding ;)
A nice little mix of things today :)
From the allotment. Despite getting blight, we’ve still had a ton of tomatoes; and the second bean harvest has begun just as the greenhouse ones die down.
Our first chill~ and some chinese lanterns. Dont really know how to each them, but whatever. Also: what happens when you have a few cucumbers hidden in foliage and left to grow. Oh dear.
