Farmhouse Garden
This morning I took some flower pictures of the farmhouse garden, the area feels much healthier now most of the dock leaves have been removed.
Woodburn Farm
Woodburn is a small hamlet in the area of Roberton, within the valley of Borthwick Water.
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Rose Rust
Have a terrible headache, sheep are shunning sopping rain, but the kitchen garden is enamoured with vibrancy.
Gate
Charlie fixed the gate onto the kitchen garden today, this completes the perimeter fence.
Nurture
Upset that a pretty Japanese vase got smashed from my window sill whilst attempting to squash a huge meat fly.
Fence mesh
We completed the perimeter fence around our kitchen garden today, the rear side had been open for almost two weeks (ran out of wire).
Honeysuckle
Every time I revisit Woodburn farmhouse garden I see beauty.
Partridge
Today the partridge eggs hatched in the farmhouse garden; I walked over to get a photograph but was immediately attacked by two partridge parents.
Bunting
Awoken late, with an aching stomach. We loaded two ewes (who have been bad mothers) onto the trailer, they are being sold for slaughter at the local livestock market today.
Scarecrow
Our common rider scarecrow appears to be scarring off birds that are eating the leaves from our cabbage plants. We took so much effort to keep the wild rabbits out we forgot all about the birds!
Wired
We have risen early, commenced work on the farmhouse kitchen garden. First we dug up huge clumps of nettles, then roughly levelled the soil.
Food to the heart
I fry a mean cooked breakfast, we enjoyed sausages, eggs on toast.
Topping
After shovelling the last of the muck [caked layers of rotting sheep poo and straw], enabling the tractor to gain clear access Charlie attached the topper to the rear of his ageing tractor and thus began vaporising hundreds of dock leaves between beds of nettles.