Spring Additions

It’s so glorious you wouldn’t believe it’s only April, I do wonder if the fantastic weather is the result of lower pollution levels with the lock down or is it just coincidence.
We had a lovely new arrival 

Lavender presented us with a son, 
This is Boris son of Johnny and what a little smasher he is.
As he was arriving into the world on the other side of the fence we had a ewe delivering twins.

We still have four more ewes to deliver, we have had lots of lambs this week.

The garden shed got an unplanned spring clean,  I was looking for an attachment that eluded me in the shed and in desperation the whole shed got emptied

It gave me chance to go through everything, de clutter pass on to others what I didn’t need.

Then re organise the whole shed making it easier to negotiate and find things

Plenty of space and the tools are easy to get to, the old wooden units that were damp and warped gone on the bonfire replaced with plastic storage units that have been in storage.
And yes I found what I was looking for.

I have been de cluttering seed packets as well, I have sold a lot on my little stand at the end of the drive, I have been mixing up seeds with some wild flower seeds I have and they have been scattered in a cleared strip in the field it will be lovely if some of them come up.

On the little stand Alpaca poo and herb plants have been this weeks best sellers, we did end up with a wait list for Alpaca poo.

In the veg garden growing area I am setting up new additional grow beds 

A couple of the beds are for growing on natural dye plants,

I have started som Japanese Indigo from seed and bought in. Madder and Woad plant to start things off.

Other new beds as for growing on herbs I have been asked by a local restaurant to supply them with fresh herbs and edible flowers.

Last Year I had a go at growing Gourds for crafting with.

They grew really well in the poly tunnel and the whole effect of them growing up the supports and hanging down was fantastic.

They were harvested in Autumn when the leaves started dying off, 

Everything I read about the drying off said to just leave them a mould will grow over them and the skins would harden, 

Winter is damp in wales and I had doubts they would dry off, above the log store Martin put in a mezzanine floor for me to store fleeces up there, so I laid out the gourds and left them for the winter

 Got them down the other day, all covered in mould and yes under all that mould is a nice hard skin.

Now I am just cleaning them up ready for decorating, I am so impressed with them, I have now got more seeds sown for growing on this year.

We have enjoyed a few treats this week

Home made cream teas, 

Lots of BBQ

Hope you are all staying safe and have managed to enjoy some of the good weather