I was eager to cut down as many dock leaves with the new strimmer, two fully charged batteries ahead.
Charlie started the tractor and cleared the paddock and surrounding areas with the topper. I ripped out many patches of nettles, mostly around two rhubarb patches, that have grown huge! I found wild life and then a strange oddity on the stem of one nettle.
Pulling out nettles, I'm wondering about habitat, but there are plenty of places for that here. This was figured to be a growth developing from the nettle, rather than a parasite.
I noticed a bright orange powdery substance on a rose bush, I researched then suspected this to be a fungal infection known as rose rust. This rose bush is located to the North West side of the farmhouse, which led me to believe this to be fungal (shady area of poor sunlight).
I took these pictures to a garden centre, they said the orange was too bright to be rose rust. My phone camera had not adjusted the contrast at all, this fungal substance was really this vivid.
After a cooked breakfast we picked up a generator and visited both grass keeps; we were dismayed to find another lamb suffering from scold; I believe this to be caused by them not being late introduced onto grass from dry straw.
The second flock were rounded up into the pen, wary of our presence we used the car to block them off.
Charlie sheared a large ewe thoroughly in seven minutes, which isn't bad for a man with health problems in his mid-fifties. We finished nine ewes a couple of hours before sundown; we drove to the farmhouse with four and a half bags of fleece which I plan to spin on a wheel. On the A699, nearing Selkirk we were aggressively tail gated, and dangerously over taken.
Charlie started the tractor and cleared the paddock and surrounding areas with the topper. I ripped out many patches of nettles, mostly around two rhubarb patches, that have grown huge! I found wild life and then a strange oddity on the stem of one nettle.
Pulling out nettles, I'm wondering about habitat, but there are plenty of places for that here. This was figured to be a growth developing from the nettle, rather than a parasite.
I noticed a bright orange powdery substance on a rose bush, I researched then suspected this to be a fungal infection known as rose rust. This rose bush is located to the North West side of the farmhouse, which led me to believe this to be fungal (shady area of poor sunlight).
I took these pictures to a garden centre, they said the orange was too bright to be rose rust. My phone camera had not adjusted the contrast at all, this fungal substance was really this vivid.
After a cooked breakfast we picked up a generator and visited both grass keeps; we were dismayed to find another lamb suffering from scold; I believe this to be caused by them not being late introduced onto grass from dry straw.
The second flock were rounded up into the pen, wary of our presence we used the car to block them off.
Charlie sheared a large ewe thoroughly in seven minutes, which isn't bad for a man with health problems in his mid-fifties. We finished nine ewes a couple of hours before sundown; we drove to the farmhouse with four and a half bags of fleece which I plan to spin on a wheel. On the A699, nearing Selkirk we were aggressively tail gated, and dangerously over taken.
Our cade lambs.
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