Broadbeans

I was planning on sewing the Broad beans today but I think I will give it a miss as it is raining here but seems to be clearing slowly,if it fines up I think I will go up to the allotment and sew them,first we are going to Chorley to collect a ton bag of stone chipping from my friend Ann who has kindly donated them to us for the allotment,I am going to use them on the paths around the beds and also around the duck pond...Thanks Ann.

Everything Chickeny....

At 12:04 Thursday night one little Black Araucana Chick hatched in the incubator...We didn't think it would survive but it has and it is eating and drinking well now, cuddled up in the box all cozy and warm.

Let's hope she will turn out to be a lovely little hen laying lovely little blue eggs for us....

MOLLY AND HER CHICKS

Is doing fine with her 9 chicks,eating a bit of porridge every morning with her chicks..they love it and can't wait to get out of the hutch to get at it,she starts clucking as I am walking up the backyard.The chicks are 2 weeks old today,I can't believe how much they have grown in a week and a half already,they can jump and fly really high now.

The Bird Table...

A Great Tit on the bird table,they are getting tamer those birds,they jump on the table when your stood right in front of it.

Planting,Digging,pea sticks and Chickens...

WELL....Things have been happening here....

We come back from a lovely week in Spain to visit our friends,and we though right we will get stuck into the allotment,so first thing was to manure the veg bed,I bought 4 bags of manure for £1 a bad well rotted I must say! they were from Only Foals and Horses animal sanctuary,were incidently Paul got attacked by a very grumpy looking Turkey,that will teach you not to put your hand through the bars of a turkey pen wont it? Then we went to Brookside Nursery a little further down the road to buy John Innes No3 to plant the Fig tree and the apple tree in the nature area at the bottom of the allotment.

Paul bought me my very own 2 stroke petrol strimmer for an easter present! bless him, its brilliant,strimmed the nature area in no time.

We packed up early Wednesday so we could have a look around Clitheroe auctions at the fur and feather auction,and came home with one broodie Silkie Hen and 10 tiny chicks,un beknown to Paul at the time, he was drinking his brew sat on one of the gates and I told him sheepishly "oh by the way Paul I just bid for that box of chickens"! I have named her MOLLY,she just looks like a MOLLY when I look at her,she is sooo calm and placid very friendly let's you pick her up and pick the chicks up.....So now Paul has to pull everything back a week and start making the run now,which we have been at the allotment for 9 hrs today sorting it all out.I planted Potatoes,Peas,and Parsnips,and made the most ace Pea twig frame ever! took ages and ages as every last piece of it had to be found in the woods and stipped and chopped and stuck in the ground and tied.

Potatoes went in....Maris Piper's 2nd Earlies

Then the Peas Kalvedon Wonder...

The Parnips went in too then the Chicken run was starting to take shape...

My old bench from the backyard,we took it up to the plot and stained it,came up a treat it's now in the nature area at the bottom facing the sun.

More Soon....

Seeds and a soil tester

This is a selection of seeds I am taking over to Spain tomorrow to give to Kay,she was telling me her soil over there is very dry and almost like an orange colour so I told her I had a soil testing kit and I would bring it,also I am taking some Kalvedon Wonder Peas,some Parsnips (tender and true) , Oinions (Brunswicker) ,and seeds for the poached egg plant (Limnanthes Douglasii) ,these flowers have lovely bright white flowers with bright yellow middles like a poached egg! Hence the name..

I am almost jealous of her shiny new seed packets!

PS: The blog won't be updated for a week now because we are off to sunnier climes...

More Soon B-J x

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The Bird Table

Today we went up to the allotment and made a bird table...this is in the area that is going to be for nature right down at the bottom of the allotment.