So after the party we had a big clean up job ahead but we soon got on top of it all. It's pretty difficult to keep chickens on fresh ground in the winter so we're allowing them to roam around the garden. This won't do the lawn any good but we can reseed it in the spring and it's really lovely having the girls follow you around the garden.
The wormery is going strong and I'm getting the first 'worm tea'. This is supposed to be a great fertilizer so we are using it on the last of the winter veg. It's taking a while for the worms to multiply and we still only have one level of the wormery in action but they seem happy enough.
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| The first of the 'worm tea' |
We enjoyed the last of the parsnips and some leeks. We are definitely going to try both varieties again as they were delicious.
But at this time of year there isn't an awful lot to do so after the clear up we started to think about next year and clearing space for our next big project....a greenhouse. We picked a likely spot at the back of the garden near the hen enclosure. The beech hedges are beautiful but they take up nearly 4 ft around the edge of our garden so the plan was to take out a section of hedges to make way for a small greenhouse. It's just going to be a bog standard cold greenhouse but will increase our repertoire, lengthen the growing season and give us somewhere to work when the weather is awful...which has been most of the year in 2012! So it was out with the loppers!
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| The girls helped us pick out a spot. |
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