I couldn’t write about this yesterday, it was too stressful! I mentioned on Tuesday’s post that the weather was blustery. It turned out that it was the windiest day we had had in a very long time! So much so, that our wonderful new DIY chook pen blew over. I couldn’t believe it. I was […]
It is a blustery, wintery day here today. Cold, wet and windy! Our winter equinox was on the weekend, so I guess I shouldn’t be surprised that we are getting winter weather – but it makes going outside very unappealing! We crutched our rams on the weekend, which was a job we had been putting […]
After my vegie garden update, I had a number of questions regarding my recipe for Green Tomato Pickles, so I thought I would do a post about it today. I had actually never tried Green Tomato Pickles before, but we always have a jar in the fridge – that I buy – because Cam loves it on […]
We’ve been having some very wintery weather here these last few days. It’s been quite nice actually, because the first two weeks of winter were very mild. Today we have had almost non-stop drizzly rain and cold, cold winds. With lambing well and truly underway, the vegie garden has not got a lot of attention […]
Our ewes started lambing about three weeks ago. They are actually due to start on the 1st June ( because we put the rams in on New Years Day, and they have a 6 month gestation period). However they always seem to start about a week early. I try and get around the ewes at […]
Well I think everyone around here has pretty much finished their sowing, which I’m sure is a nice feeling for us all. I’ve been travelling around the district over the last week or so, collecting some photos of the sowing operations going on. Here’s a sample of some of my favourites…
All our crops and pasture is sown. It’s a good feeling to have it all in the ground. Now we just need lots of rain to germinate the seed, and then keep it growing. By all accounts we are in for another el niño so it could be a dry year. Here’s our tractor and […]
Our first lambs have been born. I know it happens every year, but its always very exciting to see those first ones. After six weeks of checking them morning and night in the cold and wet, I’ll be over it, but right now, it’s exciting. These are a little set of twins. They were born […]
Last weekend we finished sowing our lupins. Lupins are a legume and are a large round seed, as you can see below. They originated from the Mediterranean region and are quite high in both protein and energy so make a good stock feed, and in some countries are quite popular as a snack for humans. […]
I picked the first of our broccoli last night. They are massive heads, and I think I picked them just in time as they will start spreading if I’d left them much longer. Obviously this is much more than we are likely to eat in the next week or so, so I cut them up […]