I had a quiet day to day and just sowed some annual flower seeds in the greenhouse. I had a good day on Sunday the weather was fine and I was able to plant some more rows of potatoes after rotavating the ground but felt very tired today. Good to read that Clive had seen a Red Kite, I still get excit...

Very windy here today so I took the opportunity to mow the lawns. The grass was very long and my rotary mower cannot cope with long wet grass but the strong winds helped dry the grass so I could take a cut with the mower set at its highest. I also thought it a good idea so sow another row of parsnip...

Well when I awoke this morning it was not raining, I wonder how long that will last. Yesterday I collected some compost and learnt the reason for my favourite compost not being available was due to everyone buying up stocks before the restrictions on peat use come into effect, they had mountains of ...

Let's hope the weather is kind for you Westie together with all forum members and some gardening progress can be made. I had a goodish day to-day, in between the showers, and was able to plant most of my onion sets out. When it was raining I nipped inside my lean to glass/green house and belatedly p...

All's well that ends well Westie. I sowed some parsnips this evening, ground was wet and not ideal and seedbed was a little rough but I have to sow something this year. Caught a couple of annoying moles in the fields yesterday but will leave traps set for another week or so until I receive ewes and ...

You are way ahead of me also Westie, I spent last week at St Ives and visited a couple of NT gardens which was very enjoyable and the weather was good. It was nice to see the fields of daffodils and cauliflowers. I managed to do a little rotavating yesterday when it was windy, dry and sunny but toda...

I cannot add anything to what Westie has wisely said. The important thing to remember (as Westie says) is that you should only cut them at planting time not before.

Keep chitting

Barney

Well I was a little disappointed today, I went into town and on course my old favourite Wilko is no more. I used to buy nets of many onion bulbs for next to nothing and they all grew into super onions that kept well and have loads left from last year's planting. I bought 100 bulbs from a local agric...

Oh Westie! You must be referring to my favourite pin-ups of the era, namely Barbara Woodhouse and Fanny Cradock.

If so they were certainly bossy, Barbara being plainly bossy but there was a little menace, in Fanny's bossiness.

You certainly did what you were told by these two.

Barney

I spent time today chopping down an over grown Laurel bush, it was huge and I have plenty more Laurel bushes to clear. The grass on my lawns have grown extremely long and I have moved some sheep on them to eat it down. It is not going very well, although they are eating the grass they keep getting t...

Well done oldherbaceous, I was beginning to think that I was the only one who remembered Jack Hargreaves. Don't forget to tune in and relive the times when you were a lad enjoying our rural past.

Best wishes

Barney

Well Westie, Jack lived in Dorset and was a legend to people interested in the countryside. My workmates and I used to spend our lunch times talking about his latest programme; we were all country people interested in fishing, hunting, shooting and farming. He was also a knowledgeable man on horses/...

At last some good news regarding a true countryside programme from the knowledgeable Jack Hargreaves, to be shown from 5th February at 6.30 pm, on Talking Pictures. https://www.oldtimereview.co.uk/out-of-town-talking-pictures/ He told it largely unscripted, with no irritating background muzak, as it...

Sorry to read of your losses Oldherbaceous, I think it is very sad when people we know well die. I especially feel sad when I read of people that I used to work alongside but then lost contact with have died. I just wish that I had made more of an effort to keep in contact with them when they were a...

Well, I moved my sheep yesterday morning and took the opportunity to walk around to see the extent of the flooding. I spotted the usual little egrets and herons and then noticed a whitish brown bird in the mist perched on a fence post, it then took off and it was clearly a Barn Owl quartering across...