Kitchen Garden

The garden was overgrown with dock leaves, nettles, cleavers and another unknown weed, it took us two hours to complete the job; then we set about sowing seeds.

Several potato plants from last year are growing again, and carrot, turnip and parsnip have flowered and will be shortly going to seed.

This year we're planting beetroot, runner beans, onion, broccoli, and potatoes, allotting space to grow spinach and a culinary herb garden. BTW we've a Common rider scarecrow.

The cade lambs were cooling down within the shadow of Woodburn farm house.

With our Kitchen garden weeded and seeds sown, we pulled out and lit our barbecue; and enjoyed sizzling chicken, mushroom, pepper and bacon roast spits.

I am not used to cooking barbecues, a steep learning curve for me having been vegetarian / vegan for thirty years; but Charlie seems to like my outdoor cooking.

During the evening we visited a friend, Charlie sheared one of his Hebridean sheep and two of our sheep, Teeswater and Zwartble Mother ewes.

Charlie taught our friend how to shear, he was eager to learn; despite being bothered by an onslaught of midges; the breeze is a blessing this time of year within the Craik Forest.