It's Sunday evening... the end of another beautiful weekend.  Sadly, the cooler, drier air that we enjoyed last week has left us, temporarily, replaced...

 Thursday morning cup of hot tea here as I listen to thunder rumble in the distance. Rain is forecasted for the next 2 days so I will put the garden away and concentrate on some housework and cooking. Thought I would share some more pictures of the gardens. The gooseberries above are swelling now and all the 8 bushes have berries on them now. Yesterday I got all my broccoli and cabbage plants in the boxes. They were the perfect size and ready for their permanent homes in the garden. Planting them right before rain will allow them to acclimate for the next two raiy days and not even wilt. Also got some romaine plants in...

    farmingGeorge’s Fobbing Farm UpdatePregnancy DetectingOctober has happened, and actually contained some timely farming for once. The start of the month is deemed the best time of year to sow winter wheat, but the weather hasn’t played ball the past couple of years. So it was very pleasing to get 50 hectares of wheat established pretty nicely in the second week of the month. What’s more, nearly half of that is now my heritage wheats. It feels super exciting to have established decent areas of these varieties to have a genuine quantity of wheat to put through my flour mill next year. Our seed drill performing really nicely in the second week of OctoberI've never been...