Rabbit Proof Vegetable Patch
We are very excited that at last we have the start of our vegetable patch! If you regularly follow out blog you will know that the Wildlife likes to strike back, so we have had to create Fort Knox to stop the fluffy bunnies (!) thinking we have created them a handy larder-cum-restaurant.
Ditch Levelling
Well the last part of the weekend in August that we spent transforming the drive, and to some degree the garden, was spent levelling in the ditch. It is not clear from the pics, but there was a drop of over two feet from the level of the garden, and it is in this space that we plan to put our fruit cage, vegetable plot and chicken run. So this has all been on hold until we could level this off.
Sloe Gin Recipe Progress
As reported in this post on of me trying to follow my first sloe gin recipe, I wanted to give you a progress report! I have been shaking the sloe gin every day since it was bottled, and it has now turned a very impressive colour.
The sugar took quite a few days to dissolve, and to start with there was this incredible shimmering within the bottle where the alcohol was increasing in strength due to the sugar.
One of the things we are most excited about living at Waterloo Farm is being able to grow our own fruit and veg. On our garden design we know exactly where our ‘kitchen garden’ is going and we have plans for fruit trees and a fruit cage, so hopefully at some stage in the future we will be able to grow plenty of different fruit and veg. However, at the moment, where the veg patch will be needs a lot of work – it was once a redundant ditch which we have had to fill in and is covered in nettles and other weeds, so a lot of preparation is going to be required before we can grow anything on it! So the irony is, with a 2 acre garden, we currently don’t have anywhere prepared for growing vegetables! (more…)
OK, maybe the title is a little mis-leading as I guess strictly speaking we didn’t actually ‘grow’ the crop ourselves, but the food came off our land so in a sense it is ‘home-grown’ 
. I’m referring of course to blackberries! The kids had a great time at the weekend picking some blackberries from the garden. Fortunately they didn’t have to go very far as there is a large bramble just by the patio, and another one just next to the stable (before it got cut down anyway!).
