Last week we started cutting the pumpkins and lying them out.

Pumpkins cut straight of the plant are usually green, and if you are wanting them to eat and not carve, they wouldn’t be the...

 It’s come round to the time of the year for squash plants.

It was a very warm year for them which they love, but pretty much zero rain for most of the summer.

This week we started our carrots, first time we have ever sown them.

They are a wee bit later than carrots would usually be ready.

But two things are the reason for that, one it was such...

With all the weeding in the field finished, and the Schools back.                                          ...

It is a sure sign of summer finishing and the start of Autumn, when the squash crops are ready

The squash crops are one crop,  that you cannot see how the crop is doing without walking through...

At the beginning of this year I bought an air drill carrot machine.

I have been looking for one for a few years, as carrot seed is very fine, and can only be sown with an air seeder.

 

It’s the last week of the school holidays. And there are a few jobs that I have been waiting to finish of when Erin and Calum were back at school.

One was to finish of the...

 

Last week was a wee bit better for the plants, the field got the rain we were desperately needing.

Its amazing to see the growth in the Leeks and onions with the downpours we had.

The...

 

That’s the courgettes in full production now, last weeks warm temperatures really brought them on.

Usually after we take the fleece of and do the first harvesting, it then...

Apologies I haven’t done a newsletter for two weeks.

School holidays to blame, to much going away with Erin and Calum then having to do weeding with the tractor at nights and time gets...