Our New Life in the Country: Shhhhh......the sun's shining......

Thursday, 30 September 2010

Shhhhh......the sun's shining......

...and I'm off the harvest the last of the Aubergines in the polytunnel. This is the first year I have successfully grown Aubergines and they have been delicious, added to all sorts of dishes either to eat straight away or to store for Winter.

Also the last of the tomatoes are being picked today and the plants fed to the chickens. The Courgettes although still fruiting are turning to mush as soon as they reach any size, so they are for the chop later on too, with the pigs being the recipients of the greenery (they love the leaves and stems because they are so crunchy). It's nice to watch a happy pig chomping away.

Sue xx

5 comments:

mrsnesbitt30 September 2010 at 11:12
The sun is out here too Sue - sadly I am house sitting but I would have loved a day in the garden! (sigh) Oh well - there is always tomorrow - rain forecast! xx
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Knittings Nice!30 September 2010 at 11:33
Not for long!!!! te he! x
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Vintage from the Village30 September 2010 at 14:44
Tell me something- is a marrow just a big courgette or not?
Sent Mr V down to see if we had any courgettes to pick of our one plant and you ought to have seen the size of the monster he came back with !!
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Anonymous30 September 2010 at 17:43
Hi Sue -

Never thought of giving the pigs courgette plant trimmings. Great tip! Mine are busy getting tipsy on slightly gone over crab apples at present...
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Jim30 September 2010 at 20:30
Great photo. Love their colour but not to eat. But I can stare at them forever!
Jim
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This was my Blog, just me writing about our day to day life learning all about and then living the smallholding life. First we started on a farm in Oxfordshire, then we moved to a smaller place in Berkshire (both in England) and then we found a place of our very own at the bottom of a hillside in North Wales. Along for the ride were all our various animals, and we ended up with just our dogs, Suky and Mavis, our cat Ginger .... who secretly thinks he's one of the canine gang, a sheep called Ethel who wandered in off the road and stayed... and a roving band of egg laying chickens that live cheek by jowl with the local wildlife.

We grow our own fruit and vegetables, selling surplus plants and edibles at the gate. We sell the eggs the chickens lay, we reuse, recycle and rethink ... and life ticks over at a pace that suits us.

It was simply the wild and wacky ramblings of a 50 something townie turned country girl called Sue, who lost her heart to a sailor and started a new life in the country .... many years ago. On a path that took us from Cumbria to Oxfordshire, to Berkshire and then we found our home at the bottom of a wet and windy Welsh hillside by a busy main road.

Pull up a chair, grab a coffee and relax into a world of dogs, cats, chickens, polytunnels and veggies with the occasional grass munching sheep thrown in for good measure.

Sue xx

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