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The garlic is shooting… quickly

April 13, 2010
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It looks like the worst of the winter weather may be behind us, and the plants are certainly enjoying the warmer days. In some cases, though, that’s not entirely a good thing.

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Chickens in the ice and snow

January 10, 2010
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We’ve had snow and freezing temperatures for three weeks now, but the chickens don’t seem to have noticed. They’re lucky: they’re not the ones that have to head out with a kettle to defrost their waterer.

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Floods

February 10, 2009

A bit of a disaster last night: we got a month’s rain in 12 hours. You can imagine what that does. The nature reserve is completely flooded, about half of the allotment plots are gone, and the river has comprehensively burst its banks. The water is steadily creeping up towards us, and the chickens have spent their day in the greenhouse, where they can dry their feet and perch on the potting bench.

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Greenhouse protection

February 5, 2009

Snow on the greenhouse roofThis week’s heavy snow could have caused some serious damage to the greenhouse, had we not gone out to clear it down.

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The chickens and the cold

January 6, 2009

The chickens don’t seem to notice the cold at all. Every morning right now I have to go out with the kettle to defrost their water supply, which had a good inch and a half of ice in the top at the weekend. As far as they’re concerned, though, this is nothing…

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The cold and the beer

December 4, 2008

This is the first time we’ve brewed beer in the winter, and we’ve both been surprised how different it is to doing it in the warmer summer months.

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