Fowl Play
Posted: Wed 31 October, 2007 Filed under: Animals, Domestic, Green Garden Leave a comment »I know, it’s a clichéd title – but hey ho. Live with it.
Anyway, we’ve had contact from the person supplying us with our chickens, coop, and all the guff for starting us off with three chickens. We pick them up on Sunday – just in time for my birthday. The coop is fuckin’ huge – 3′ x 2′ x 8′, so I’m hiring a van for the day to pick everything up.
In a bizarre way I’m actually looking forward to getting them – it’s going to make for some interesting times, having three chickens as well as Hound and Psycho Cat…
Garden Organisation
Posted: Sat 6 October, 2007 Filed under: Domestic, Getting Organised, Green Garden, Plots & Green Stuff Leave a comment »Currently, we’re looking at what we’re going to be doing next year in the garden. Yes, I know, getting scarily organised. We’re going to be doing a lot of work in there during ’08, so we need to have a plan.
There’s going to be a fair amount of veg growing, for sure – we’ve already bought sweet and chilli peppers, sweetcorn, onions, garlic, as well as a couple of others, and we’ve still got some other stuff to buy – as well as generally sorting out more of the layout, getting rid of some (most) of the roses, putting in some more structure, and putting in a decking area around the already-existing pergola thingy.
So we’re starting to plan what’s going to be done when, and how, and why. And by who, of course.
It’s a bit odd to be planning some of the stuff for 2008 already, but there’s going to be so much going on at the time, it’s going to be better to know beforehand what we’re up to, rather than getting to Saturday morning and wondering what needs doing next…
Got Wood?
Posted: Sun 23 September, 2007 Filed under: Domestic, Green Garden Leave a comment »Not content with the amount we cut up earlier this week for the woodpile, I’ve been cutting up the remaining bits today. Once that’s done, I’ll be able to use the tarpaulin it’s all laid on (well, one of the two tarps – one’s for ‘big wood’, one’s for ‘kindling wood’) to use as a cover for the front of the woodpile, and protect it all a bit from rain/damp. (There’s plenty of ventilation round the sides and bottom of the woodpile, so it’s not going to get damp inside anyway)
So far it’s taken four hours. And there’s still the stuff for kindling to go. I suspect that lot may wait ’til one evening this week, because it has to be said, I’m right bored with it now.
Still, it’ll be good to have the job completed and done…
Wood Pile
Posted: Thu 20 September, 2007 Filed under: Domestic, Green Garden, Photography 1 Comment »So, all the wood from the delivery on Monday is now stored in the wood pile. Twenty wheelbarrow loads, and this is what it looks like. (Apologies for the ropy cameraphone image, but there we go)
I have to say, I’m really quite pleased with it. And yes, I so need to get out more…
Fuel to the pyre
Posted: Sat 15 September, 2007 Filed under: Domestic, Getting Organised, Green Garden 1 Comment »This weekend, it looks like we’re getting prepared for winter.
We’ve made an order for oil through Boiler Juice, which seems to get a decent price for purchases of heating oil, so that’ll arrive next week.
In addition, we’ve also ordered a load of logs from a local supplier, which’ll turn up on Monday. Not bad – £75 for a full load, which can then be stuck onto our wood pile while the stuff we’ve already received (from a number of sources) and chopped, which is slowly seasoning on the pile already. With luck it’ll keep us going through the winter, but if not well, we can always get another load delivered. Happy day.
And before the delivery of logs, we need to chop up the remaining wood to go on the pile first. Joy. That’s most of tomorrow sorted out then…
Fowl Play
Posted: Sun 9 September, 2007 Filed under: Domestic, Green Garden 2 Comments »Today, we’re off to look at chickens.
We won’t be buying any (not today, anyway) but it seems like as good a time as any to start doing the research. We found a place that looks promising, they do all the necessary gubbins as well as the birds, so it seems like a good place to get some information.
This could be interesting…
New Seeds
Posted: Sun 2 September, 2007 Filed under: Domestic, Green Garden, House Work 1 Comment »We’re already getting organised for next year when it comes to the veg garden, greenhouse, and the decision about getting chickens.
Last week I went to the Real Seed Company, and ordered (among other things) some chocolate brown sweet peppers and some fluorescent purple chilli peppers. They should both be interesting – this year we’ve had massive success with normal chillis, and did OK on the bell peppers, although they weren’t great, and had a nasty reaction to sporadic watering.
Over the winter, we’re going to be making some additions and alterations to the greenhouse we inherited from the previous owners. It needs new shading put up, the automatic vent openers need replacing, and all that kind of general maintenance guff. Should be fun.
And yes, we’re even thinking of getting some chickens. It won’t be ’til Spring now, but that gives us some time to do some planning, get things in place, and all that kind of thing. We got a couple of books this week, so it should be interesting to see how things go.