Our New Life in the Country: Holding Fire .... but Tempted

Sunday, 22 March 2015

Holding Fire .... but Tempted

You can only imagine how much this picture means to me. To see the polytunnel filling up with all my growing accoutrements is good for my soul.

Little by little everything is being cleaned and moved over ready for action.

And believe me it is taking all my strength not to plunge in and get planting. We have had a couple of mornings of really hard frost on this patch of hillside, so I am holding fire for another week before I tempt fate and begin putting those defenceless little seeds into compost.

Although I have just treated myself to a couple of propagator lids to fit my large green trays, so I will be in action very soon. Then at last these green fingers will stop twitching. :-)

Sue xx

14 comments:

The Quirky Bird Gardener22 March 2015 at 17:06
Looking great and you are all ready to go as soon as it warms up. I've got some seedlings coming on in the greenhouse, but only because it's heated. Its so good to finally get on with things in the garden :)
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Dawn22 March 2015 at 17:53
I have plenty of seedlings o the go, they are growing in a col greenhouse, the tomatoes are in there as well although I do put some protection over the toms and peppers at night. what are you planning to grow in your tunnels?
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Alison22 March 2015 at 19:59
Looking great Sue, do you listen to Gardener's Question Time? on today's repeat I heard what sounded like a good tip for catching the condensation from the inside of PTs into a water butt for re-use.
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Julie 22 March 2015 at 20:14
It's all looking good Sue.. I have a few seedlings and some more seeds sown.. still plenty to do :o)
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TrishWish22 March 2015 at 22:15
Jealous. My poly tunnel is awaiting its cover. Meanwhile cant move in conservatory for early seedlings!
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e22 March 2015 at 23:44
How wonderful that it is coming together...can't wait to see things sprouting!
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Kev Alviti23 March 2015 at 08:08
Looks really good! Much better than my messy greenhouse!
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Pam23 March 2015 at 09:03
You are a fair bit North of me, we have had a few light frosts, but none for several days. My seeds are well on their way and some will be pricked out into 3"pots today.
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Sandies' Patch23 March 2015 at 09:17
Not long now Sue!
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Anna of Mutton Style and Years23 March 2015 at 12:42
Exciting. It's always tempting to start something new a little too early. Better sit on those twitching fingers.
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Jo@awholeplotoflove23 March 2015 at 13:40
It looks fab Sue, there has been quite a bit of frost lately hasn't there?
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Linda Kay23 March 2015 at 14:19
Sue, so happy for you to have this finally working for you. I'm sure you will spend many hours there working with your plantings.
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Compostwoman25 March 2015 at 12:07
So pleased you finally have them up and running :) Mine is tidy at the moment ( because I have just tidied it and moved overwintering hen and guinea pig runs outside) but it won't be like that for long. I love the look of a new polytunnel :)
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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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