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Withybeds Cottage: April 2009
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Withybeds Cottage is in the beautiful county of Worcestershire. I am in my first year of setting up the one acre garden as a project in permaculture and forest farming. With the project at the very earliest stages now, this blog is to be a diary of progress. Monday, April 20, 2009. I was walking through the fields a couple of mornings ago when I saw two of the buzzards overhead. Nothing unusual in that. I see as many as six sometimes all soaring and circling together. Links to this post. I've been workin...
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Withybeds Cottage: Views from Withybeds
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Withybeds Cottage is in the beautiful county of Worcestershire. I am in my first year of setting up the one acre garden as a project in permaculture and forest farming. With the project at the very earliest stages now, this blog is to be a diary of progress. Sunday, February 5, 2012. Dawn Over Smithmoor Common. Withybeds Through the Buttercups. Shannon Helping to Clear the Garden. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom). Planting Time - Well, Not Quite Yet. Permaculture Planning - Part 1. Build a Food Forest.
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Withybeds Cottage: January 2012
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Withybeds Cottage is in the beautiful county of Worcestershire. I am in my first year of setting up the one acre garden as a project in permaculture and forest farming. With the project at the very earliest stages now, this blog is to be a diary of progress. Monday, January 30, 2012. Intend to have a rooster. You don't need them for the girls to lay and roosters are famously noisy. Instead of the open warfare I had been expecting, some of the girls seemed quite charmed by the new arrival. Of the eigh...
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Withybeds Cottage: May 2009
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Withybeds Cottage is in the beautiful county of Worcestershire. I am in my first year of setting up the one acre garden as a project in permaculture and forest farming. With the project at the very earliest stages now, this blog is to be a diary of progress. Sunday, May 10, 2009. We bought a polytunnel a couple of weeks ago, and I thought "Hey, dead easy to put up. nothing to it.". Noise and you have to start again. I don't think we're in Kansas any more Toto.". Memo to self: purchase more grounds pegs.
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Withybeds Cottage: Permaculture Planning - Part 1
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Withybeds Cottage is in the beautiful county of Worcestershire. I am in my first year of setting up the one acre garden as a project in permaculture and forest farming. With the project at the very earliest stages now, this blog is to be a diary of progress. Sunday, February 5, 2012. Permaculture Planning - Part 1. I am trying hard to get the basics of the planting in atWithybeds this year. There is also a greengage which did not seem happy at all last year and a peach which seemed healthy enough but sho...
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Withybeds Cottage: Dog days
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Withybeds Cottage is in the beautiful county of Worcestershire. I am in my first year of setting up the one acre garden as a project in permaculture and forest farming. With the project at the very earliest stages now, this blog is to be a diary of progress. Thursday, February 9, 2012. Picked up "Oliver" from the dog shelter about today. Up until a few weeks before Christmas we had four dogs. In the space of six weeks I lost Shannon to cancer and Minnie and my beloved Seamus to old age. In Grave Danger o...
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Withybeds Cottage: Snow and Chickens
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Withybeds Cottage is in the beautiful county of Worcestershire. I am in my first year of setting up the one acre garden as a project in permaculture and forest farming. With the project at the very earliest stages now, this blog is to be a diary of progress. Saturday, February 4, 2012. Poor chucks. Some never seen snow before. No idea what to make of it. Definitely unhappy about going out in it. Winter Garden and Winter Chickens (no-where in view). Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom). Build a Food Forest.
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Withybeds Cottage: Chickens and Vegetable Beds
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Withybeds Cottage is in the beautiful county of Worcestershire. I am in my first year of setting up the one acre garden as a project in permaculture and forest farming. With the project at the very earliest stages now, this blog is to be a diary of progress. Saturday, March 10, 2012. Chickens and Vegetable Beds. First I planted out a bed with my perennial onions, sea kale and assorted herbs. They lasted a day before the girls scratched them all up again. And as an experiment, I'm going to try planting ru...
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Daughter of the Soil: Potato blessings
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Daughter of the Soil. Adventures in experimental horticulture. Sunday, 22 May 2011. An unnamed/unidentified South American andigena potato. The carmine-red splodges in the leaf axils give a clue to the deep red tubers it will produce. So here's some positive stuff I've been getting on with. I've had some very generous potato donations from Rhizowen. And Frank Van Keirsbilck. It's going to be a fun year for bizarre-coloured mash in the Rebsie household. This is Pastusa Amarilla. They put on a second flush...
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Withybeds Cottage: February 2012
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Withybeds Cottage is in the beautiful county of Worcestershire. I am in my first year of setting up the one acre garden as a project in permaculture and forest farming. With the project at the very earliest stages now, this blog is to be a diary of progress. Thursday, February 9, 2012. Picked up "Oliver" from the dog shelter about today. Up until a few weeks before Christmas we had four dogs. In the space of six weeks I lost Shannon to cancer and Minnie and my beloved Seamus to old age. Links to this post.