Wow Clare your asparagus is going to be brilliant next year - look at all of those fronds. I now feel sorry for mine not having a blanket over them like yours… I better get mulching! What a winter wonderland! Absolutely loved the scene with your gorgeous horsies 🐴 🤎 Poly is looking so fantastic! Lovely video 😊
Thank you so much, Dora. I enjoyed the challenge to see what I could get done before the snow, and to see if it even happened! Was so excited when I opened the blinds in the morning. ❤️ The asparagus do look toasty don’t they? I really hope they survive winter ok. 🙏🏻 Everything seems alive still in the tunnel… a bit of slug nibbling on the green lettuces mainly. I should have brought the horses in. Felt guilty when it had snowed as much as it did 🙈
I was so sure the forecast was over exaggerating it. Was pretty shocked when I woke up to so much snow, Mal. Magical isn’t it? ❤️ Sadly it’s all mud and rain now 😅😭
Oh Sue…. Next week FOR SURE! The hats are coming back out! I love hat season… no need to worry about my straggly, fly away hair 😂🙈 Have a fabulous week x
Oh that’s a lovely suggestion, thank you. I’ll remember for next year. Funnily enough, I saw some amaranth Christmas decorations last week, so I’ve bought those to add to my tree this year. Couldn’t resist when I saw them. ☺️
What beautiful scenery, Clare. You work so hard protecting your crops and doing your farmyard duties 😊 I covered everything in my kitchen garden but didn't brush the snow from my small greenhouse roof. It's taken days to melt because of the frost! Lesson learnt. As always, a lovely video and very informative 😊
Aww thank you Linda. I have to admit I do secretly avoid certain farmyard duties. 😂😅 I can imagine it took ages for the snow to melt too. It’s only just thawed from that sides of the polytunnel, where it had slid off the roof. What a lot of snow … yet here we are back to 14°c and rain! Glad you enjoyed the video. Have a lovely gardening week. I believe the sun is going to shine tomorrow ❤️
Morning Claire! Well done on preparing for the snow ❄️! We had the same too the other day. I ended up cleaning the snow off the polycarbonate tunnel with the back of an old handmade wooden rake that I inherited with the farm. I'm not QUITE tall enough... It all melted by us yesterday, but I went a walk a bit further north and there was still plenty snow, even on the beach! Today 11C and rain, tomorrow 13, who knows what afterwards, it keeps going back and forth. Greenhouse stuff today I think, out of the rain! I have a physalis plant outside that's survived 2 nights of -2 and it not going above freezing for those 2 days either! I MUST take a cutting. Ooooh Black Night pepper. I need that to go with my Deep Purple Potatoes! (Old rock fans will understand...).
Morning Kirsty.. snow on the beach is a rare thing normally isn’t it? Always hear people say they don’t get snow very often if they live on the coast. I love that you inherited an old wooden rake. Perfect tool for the job. The snow has thawed now and we’ve had a couple of days on monsoon level rainfall. Everywhere is very soggy, on top of the thaw. It’s jumped back to 14°c today here too.. positively tropical after the -6.4° in the polytunnel Tuesday night! You definitely MUST take a cutting of that plant. Hope you have a good week. Forecast suggests a bit drier early next week.. hope so. I have so many bulbs to plant out 😅
Good morning! I collected some amaranth seeds for growing again and left the rest to the birds, but it seems no birds here are interested. They willingly seed themselves in warmer areas, not sure it will happen here or where you are. Wow, you got a lot of things done, and a nice chili harvest too! Hope it all goes well over winter. ☺
Morning Trude. Yes, I’ve noticed the birds haven’t shown any interest in any wind fallen seeds, or the plants themselves. I’m thinking you’d need a field of amaranth to get enough grain to make it worthwhile… so I’ll focus on them being “edimentals” next year I think. I’m not sure if they’ll self seed, as you say, due to the weather here. We shall have to see 😅 I have so much clearing to do now. -6.4° c Tuesday night certainly saw many sensitive plants finished for the season and in need of removing. All the chillies have well and truly succumbed. Has snowy season started for you yet, over there? I imagine a white Christmas is pretty much the norm in Norway?
@@TheFarmyardGarden First heavy snow-day today, but it's getting milder so it will melt luckily. My greenhouse thermometer says -7,2 °C last night. I wish for no more snow but on Christmas eve (which is the most important x-mas day here). Last winter was long, freezing and with lots of snow, so I'm hoping this one gets easier. Yeah, I think it's easier to buy whatever amaranth I want to use for cooking/baking. As a coeliac it's a nutritious addition to my diet, but sorting the seeds from the husk was tedious and impossible to get perfect. I was a little late finishing my last pots, they were frozen and hard to get the stakes out, but it's all done and covered up now. I have the last really sad calendulas in a glass in front of me. I do want to grow lots of vegs and flowers in my future garden, but it's nice to be reminded on how much work there is to do at the end of the season, and I will try not to maximize. Clearing and preparing for winter outside is one thing, then there is all the harvest too that need processing.
Not finished watching the video yet but you just reminded me about the phacelia. I sowed mine the day after you and they all started to appear pretty quickly but because of babysitting duties I’ve not been down to the plot for over a week and we’ve had some pretty bad snow and frost here this week. It’s now torrential rain but I’ll definitely be popping down to see what, if anything, has survived!
I hope it’s survived for you, Debra. I did have another little patch of it that wasn’t covered and that seems relatively ok, if a bit flattened. Will see if that bounces back. Shame we didn’t get to sow it a few weeks earlier, it would have been significantly stronger. Oh well.. fingers crossed for us both 🤗
Hi Clare, I saw you on Danny live and thought I would subscribe. I just love horses! Wow! What a beautiful place you have! When did you plant your cauliflowers? Never thought of having any planted. I love cauliflower. Lovely snow! A lovely video. Thanks for sharing and take care 😊
Hi Christine. I do see you pop up on Danny’s channel, you’re so knowledgeable and such an active participant. Lovely to see you stop by here too. Thank you for subscribing ❤️ I am very lucky to live where I do, even if there’s a motorway running through the farm. I was not allowed pets as a child. My parents always said I could have as many pets as I wanted when I left home. I certainly must have kept that in mind when I met Duncan, a farmer, and ended up moving here in 2001 ( during the Foot & Mouth epidemic). I am really experimenting with the brassicas this winter, as I didn’t do too well with them over summer. Not sure what on earth happened to the cauliflower seedlings I had. The variety I’ve got planted is All Year Round. As the name suggests, you can sow it anytime. I sowed mine at the beginning of September but also bought a few extra plug plants from a local nursery, as they were on sale. I’m really hoping to be able to freeze store a lot of brassicas for summer eating, in case of being unsuccessful in the changeable summer weather with them again next year. Hope you have a fabulous week in the garden ☺️
@TheFarmyardGarden thank you for your lovely response. I think everyone has suffered this season with this very strange weather we have been having. Mine was sweetpeas, never had a problem before, sown them 3 times & all munched. Sunflowers grew to a certain height & quickly died off 🤔 i currently have sweetpea seedlings growing lovely in my polytunnel, hopefully they will find their way outside and flourish. Fingers crossed for next season 🤞🙂
@christinebrooks6364 ooo how sad to have missed out on the sweetpeas especially. They bring so much joy for so many months to a garden. I hope they are successful and you get a wonderful floral display next year. It was beetroot for me this year, oh and spring onions. Not much luck with either. 🙃
Looks chilly but pretty with the snow. Bit blustery down here in London. Only snowed for 5 mins the other day. Did you build a snowman? Hope you are not affected much by the wind and rain there and have a lovely week!
You know what.. I totally didn’t! I was so cold after clearing all the snow (waterproof gloves apparently not waterproof after all) that I just decided to get warm. Didn’t occur to me. I wanted to sledge but it wasn’t the right kind of snow.. too wet. 😭 We have had nothing by biblical rain and strong winds for the last two days. It’s so warm today too. 14°. Bit of a change again. Hope you’re not suffering with the wind/rain either. I think it was forecast more north than south of the country. Have a fantastic week too. December next Sunday… oooo the Christmas hats will be out in force!
@@TheFarmyardGarden Ahh don't blame you. My sister (from the Netherlands) gave me a couple of her children's sleighs and i laughed. It's more likely to be used as a mud sleigh! lol Apparently will be 18c today but it is very windy and noisy. We have 8 - 15 storey block of flats being built near us and there are 3 massive cranes that are swaying in the wind. scaffolding is clanging, alarms sounding. Driving to my Dad's in Surrey so will have to take it easy. We have had rain but it is more the wind that is the problem, with low lying cloud. Yes it is meant to be worse in the North but we have wind in the south west, south too but not as bad. Hate to think of what the NW is going through. We've already got a lot of Christmas decorations out... Got to have some light cheery things to do in this weather!
Just found your lovely channel. The Met Office got it a bit wrong for the Wolverhampton area this week. Only Hard Frosts apparently 🙄. Oh, and and manilla paper carrier bags with seed heads inverted might cut down the amount of husk, just the occasional gentle shake to disperse the seeds into the bag (from a well-known online outlet some might think originates from the South American rainforests - can't say the name lol)
Hello Darren, lovely to see new viewers appear in the comment section. Thank you for joining us 😊 You got a lot of snow in Wolverhampton, didn’t you? Saw your area featuring in the news. I genuinely thought the forecast was over exaggerating and was shocked when I woke up to it. Seems you had the opposite experience if you weren’t forecast snow. 😂😅😅 I think I might just have to order something from the place so happy it puts a smile on their boxes.. although I do have some brown paper bags, but thought they’d tear with my wet hands and the damp seed heads too. Thank you though.. .. I’ll remember to cut them off in the dry next year in to paper bags. Hope you have better weather than we’ve had over the weekend. Strong winds and biblical rainfall. One extreme to the other .. 14°c today too
@TheFarmyardGarden Same here with the rain, the wind helped it to batter my windows early hours and wake me up! I did think about the paper carrier bags from another well-known outlet (Sausage Rolls and Steakbakes, lol) but I don't think they're deep enough.
The reality of horses in winter is most definitely mud! Tilly (the dark horse) looks like a swamp donkey at the moment. She’s certainly been enjoying the odd mud bath. Think I’m going to have to admit defeat and bring them in overnight. Pablo, my skewbald, box walks, so I try to keep them out as much as possible.
Good morning Clare. Wow, snow! I'm north east here in Ireland and we dont get much snow at all, i mean last year my daughter made a snowman that sat on her hand 😂 i would love it for the children to be able to go out and play in it! Although we are going to Lapland in December for 3 nights and cant wait to see their faces 😁 Question for you, what way do you cook your beans, i want to grow them next year to try out, last time i had them i think i cooked them in butter on the pan, just looking for another way to introduce them to my family
Morning Sinéad. That little snowman sounds so cute! Such a shame you don’t get much snow there, although you do live in such a beautiful country. Lapland will be amazing! What an experience for your children (and you). How wonderful!! For the beans.. I’ve not grown them before but I intend to add the butter beans in to stews and soups, so they’ll mostly be cooked in stock. Butter in the pan sounds yummy too! Thanks for that suggestion in return ❤️❤️
@TheFarmyardGarden oh I've been to lapland twice already but it'll be my husbands first time.and childrens too, he looking forward to it too 😊 oh soup,how have I not thought of that! Although it'll be just 2 of us eating it, the other 3.arent fans
It's certainly been a week of weather hasn't it! Not too bad here in Herts, a bit cold, a bit windy and a smattering of snow, but nothing to write home about. Feel for those further north, who've had a right old battering! Fun clearing the fruit cage lol! I take my roof off in winter, but haven't done it yet so a timely reminder to do it, I need to get in there and have a good sort out too! Have you got a favourite Blueberry Clare? I had to ditch mine they just weren't happy with their lot and then got a heavy scale infestation, but I'm toying with giving them another go as I love blueberries!. Have a good week! 🙂
Smattering.. there’s a word I don’t hear very often anymore. I love that word. ❤️ We’re back to biblical rain, flooding and strong winds now. I really wish we could go back to the winter wonderland already 😂🙈 My favourite blueberry is the centre one of the three. The outside two are pink lemonade. Unfortunately they flowered earlier, so were caught by a late frost and didn’t produce much. The centre one came from a Blue Diamond garden centre and was simply labelled “garden inspirations”. It was so prolific and super tasty, with tender skins. I’ve sourced another one to add in over winter, but I’m thinking of extending the fruit cage first. 🙈 Looks like we have a drier week forecast, so hoping to get back in the garden and sort out everything that’s turned to mush 😅 Have a fab week ❤️
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Le potager magnifique avec toute cette neige 😊
Merci ce partage
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Merci. La neige rend tout si joli, n'est-ce pas ?
Est-ce qu'il neige souvent chez vous ?
Wow Clare your asparagus is going to be brilliant next year - look at all of those fronds. I now feel sorry for mine not having a blanket over them like yours… I better get mulching!
What a winter wonderland! Absolutely loved the scene with your gorgeous horsies 🐴 🤎
Poly is looking so fantastic!
Lovely video 😊
Thank you so much, Dora. I enjoyed the challenge to see what I could get done before the snow, and to see if it even happened! Was so excited when I opened the blinds in the morning. ❤️
The asparagus do look toasty don’t they? I really hope they survive winter ok. 🙏🏻
Everything seems alive still in the tunnel… a bit of slug nibbling on the green lettuces mainly.
I should have brought the horses in. Felt guilty when it had snowed as much as it did 🙈
Hi Clare, it was lovely to see the winter scenes, good usage of the asparagus foliage.
Thanks Ady. I imagine you also had a good dumping of snow there too? Was so pretty. Shame it’s been biblical rain and strong winds all weekend 😅😭
best part of my sunday checking in on the garden with you 🥰
Thank you so much Allison. I love our Sunday check ins. Did you get much snow? 🤗
@ no nothing here 😒
@ oh no! If you’re a snow lover, like me, I hope you get some festive winter wonderland scenery soon 🙏🏻🙏🏻❄️
Wow you got much more of the white stuff than we did here 😮Great video again 🙏😊👍
I was so sure the forecast was over exaggerating it. Was pretty shocked when I woke up to so much snow, Mal. Magical isn’t it? ❤️
Sadly it’s all mud and rain now 😅😭
Love seeing the snow, almost time to get your Christmas hats out 😊
Oh Sue…. Next week FOR SURE! The hats are coming back out! I love hat season… no need to worry about my straggly, fly away hair 😂🙈
Have a fabulous week x
@@TheFarmyardGarden yay you too 👍🏻
🐝 Thanks for the great video 🌻
Thank you so much xx
Happy to see so much still growing! Amaranth is pretty in flower bouquets as an accent. 🌸
Oh that’s a lovely suggestion, thank you. I’ll remember for next year. Funnily enough, I saw some amaranth Christmas decorations last week, so I’ve bought those to add to my tree this year. Couldn’t resist when I saw them. ☺️
What beautiful scenery, Clare. You work so hard protecting your crops and doing your farmyard duties 😊
I covered everything in my kitchen garden but didn't brush the snow from my small greenhouse roof. It's taken days to melt because of the frost! Lesson learnt.
As always, a lovely video and very informative 😊
Aww thank you Linda. I have to admit I do secretly avoid certain farmyard duties. 😂😅
I can imagine it took ages for the snow to melt too. It’s only just thawed from that sides of the polytunnel, where it had slid off the roof. What a lot of snow … yet here we are back to 14°c and rain!
Glad you enjoyed the video. Have a lovely gardening week. I believe the sun is going to shine tomorrow ❤️
The asparagus bed looked really cosy, think I wouldn't mind snuggling up in it 😁
I remember thinking the same, Sarah, whilst I was chopping it down. So toasty. I hope the crowns will be ok 🙏🏻
Did you get much snow?
😄 Only a sprinkling here in Lincolnshire 😊@@TheFarmyardGarden
I don’t mind the snow but I detest a rapid thaw, especially followed by so much rain. Everywhere is very, very soggy now 🙃
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Morning Claire! Well done on preparing for the snow ❄️! We had the same too the other day. I ended up cleaning the snow off the polycarbonate tunnel with the back of an old handmade wooden rake that I inherited with the farm. I'm not QUITE tall enough... It all melted by us yesterday, but I went a walk a bit further north and there was still plenty snow, even on the beach!
Today 11C and rain, tomorrow 13, who knows what afterwards, it keeps going back and forth. Greenhouse stuff today I think, out of the rain!
I have a physalis plant outside that's survived 2 nights of -2 and it not going above freezing for those 2 days either! I MUST take a cutting.
Ooooh Black Night pepper. I need that to go with my Deep Purple Potatoes! (Old rock fans will understand...).
Morning Kirsty.. snow on the beach is a rare thing normally isn’t it? Always hear people say they don’t get snow very often if they live on the coast. I love that you inherited an old wooden rake. Perfect tool for the job.
The snow has thawed now and we’ve had a couple of days on monsoon level rainfall. Everywhere is very soggy, on top of the thaw. It’s jumped back to 14°c today here too.. positively tropical after the -6.4° in the polytunnel Tuesday night!
You definitely MUST take a cutting of that plant. Hope you have a good week. Forecast suggests a bit drier early next week.. hope so. I have so many bulbs to plant out 😅
Good morning! I collected some amaranth seeds for growing again and left the rest to the birds, but it seems no birds here are interested. They willingly seed themselves in warmer areas, not sure it will happen here or where you are. Wow, you got a lot of things done, and a nice chili harvest too! Hope it all goes well over winter. ☺
Morning Trude.
Yes, I’ve noticed the birds haven’t shown any interest in any wind fallen seeds, or the plants themselves. I’m thinking you’d need a field of amaranth to get enough grain to make it worthwhile… so I’ll focus on them being “edimentals” next year I think. I’m not sure if they’ll self seed, as you say, due to the weather here. We shall have to see 😅
I have so much clearing to do now. -6.4° c Tuesday night certainly saw many sensitive plants finished for the season and in need of removing. All the chillies have well and truly succumbed.
Has snowy season started for you yet, over there? I imagine a white Christmas is pretty much the norm in Norway?
@@TheFarmyardGarden First heavy snow-day today, but it's getting milder so it will melt luckily. My greenhouse thermometer says -7,2 °C last night. I wish for no more snow but on Christmas eve (which is the most important x-mas day here). Last winter was long, freezing and with lots of snow, so I'm hoping this one gets easier.
Yeah, I think it's easier to buy whatever amaranth I want to use for cooking/baking. As a coeliac it's a nutritious addition to my diet, but sorting the seeds from the husk was tedious and impossible to get perfect.
I was a little late finishing my last pots, they were frozen and hard to get the stakes out, but it's all done and covered up now. I have the last really sad calendulas in a glass in front of me.
I do want to grow lots of vegs and flowers in my future garden, but it's nice to be reminded on how much work there is to do at the end of the season, and I will try not to maximize. Clearing and preparing for winter outside is one thing, then there is all the harvest too that need processing.
Not finished watching the video yet but you just reminded me about the phacelia. I sowed mine the day after you and they all started to appear pretty quickly but because of babysitting duties I’ve not been down to the plot for over a week and we’ve had some pretty bad snow and frost here this week. It’s now torrential rain but I’ll definitely be popping down to see what, if anything, has survived!
I hope it’s survived for you, Debra. I did have another little patch of it that wasn’t covered and that seems relatively ok, if a bit flattened. Will see if that bounces back.
Shame we didn’t get to sow it a few weeks earlier, it would have been significantly stronger. Oh well.. fingers crossed for us both 🤗
@ I’ve been down to the plot and most of it looks like it’s survived!!
Yay!! That’s excellent news ❤️
Hi Clare, I saw you on Danny live and thought I would subscribe. I just love horses! Wow! What a beautiful place you have! When did you plant your cauliflowers? Never thought of having any planted. I love cauliflower. Lovely snow! A lovely video. Thanks for sharing and take care 😊
Hi Christine. I do see you pop up on Danny’s channel, you’re so knowledgeable and such an active participant. Lovely to see you stop by here too. Thank you for subscribing ❤️
I am very lucky to live where I do, even if there’s a motorway running through the farm. I was not allowed pets as a child. My parents always said I could have as many pets as I wanted when I left home. I certainly must have kept that in mind when I met Duncan, a farmer, and ended up moving here in 2001 ( during the Foot & Mouth epidemic).
I am really experimenting with the brassicas this winter, as I didn’t do too well with them over summer. Not sure what on earth happened to the cauliflower seedlings I had.
The variety I’ve got planted is All Year Round. As the name suggests, you can sow it anytime. I sowed mine at the beginning of September but also bought a few extra plug plants from a local nursery, as they were on sale.
I’m really hoping to be able to freeze store a lot of brassicas for summer eating, in case of being unsuccessful in the changeable summer weather with them again next year.
Hope you have a fabulous week in the garden ☺️
@TheFarmyardGarden thank you for your lovely response. I think everyone has suffered this season with this very strange weather we have been having. Mine was sweetpeas, never had a problem before, sown them 3 times & all munched. Sunflowers grew to a certain height & quickly died off 🤔 i currently have sweetpea seedlings growing lovely in my polytunnel, hopefully they will find their way outside and flourish. Fingers crossed for next season 🤞🙂
@christinebrooks6364 ooo how sad to have missed out on the sweetpeas especially. They bring so much joy for so many months to a garden. I hope they are successful and you get a wonderful floral display next year.
It was beetroot for me this year, oh and spring onions. Not much luck with either. 🙃
Looks chilly but pretty with the snow. Bit blustery down here in London. Only snowed for 5 mins the other day. Did you build a snowman? Hope you are not affected much by the wind and rain there and have a lovely week!
You know what.. I totally didn’t! I was so cold after clearing all the snow (waterproof gloves apparently not waterproof after all) that I just decided to get warm.
Didn’t occur to me. I wanted to sledge but it wasn’t the right kind of snow.. too wet. 😭
We have had nothing by biblical rain and strong winds for the last two days. It’s so warm today too. 14°. Bit of a change again.
Hope you’re not suffering with the wind/rain either. I think it was forecast more north than south of the country.
Have a fantastic week too. December next Sunday… oooo the Christmas hats will be out in force!
@@TheFarmyardGarden Ahh don't blame you. My sister (from the Netherlands) gave me a couple of her children's sleighs and i laughed. It's more likely to be used as a mud sleigh! lol
Apparently will be 18c today but it is very windy and noisy. We have 8 - 15 storey block of flats being built near us and there are 3 massive cranes that are swaying in the wind. scaffolding is clanging, alarms sounding. Driving to my Dad's in Surrey so will have to take it easy. We have had rain but it is more the wind that is the problem, with low lying cloud.
Yes it is meant to be worse in the North but we have wind in the south west, south too but not as bad. Hate to think of what the NW is going through.
We've already got a lot of Christmas decorations out... Got to have some light cheery things to do in this weather!
Just found your lovely channel. The Met Office got it a bit wrong for the Wolverhampton area this week. Only Hard Frosts apparently 🙄. Oh, and and manilla paper carrier bags with seed heads inverted might cut down the amount of husk, just the occasional gentle shake to disperse the seeds into the bag (from a well-known online outlet some might think originates from the South American rainforests - can't say the name lol)
Hello Darren, lovely to see new viewers appear in the comment section. Thank you for joining us 😊
You got a lot of snow in Wolverhampton, didn’t you? Saw your area featuring in the news. I genuinely thought the forecast was over exaggerating and was shocked when I woke up to it. Seems you had the opposite experience if you weren’t forecast snow. 😂😅😅
I think I might just have to order something from the place so happy it puts a smile on their boxes.. although I do have some brown paper bags, but thought they’d tear with my wet hands and the damp seed heads too. Thank you though.. .. I’ll remember to cut them off in the dry next year in to paper bags.
Hope you have better weather than we’ve had over the weekend. Strong winds and biblical rainfall. One extreme to the other .. 14°c today too
@TheFarmyardGarden Same here with the rain, the wind helped it to batter my windows early hours and wake me up! I did think about the paper carrier bags from another well-known outlet (Sausage Rolls and Steakbakes, lol) but I don't think they're deep enough.
@DarrenGill-g5e oh yes. It made sure I didn’t oversleep for the F1 coverage in Las Vegas 😆
Snow makes everything look magical, but the reality of horses in winter isn't magical. Its just mud 😆
The reality of horses in winter is most definitely mud! Tilly (the dark horse) looks like a swamp donkey at the moment. She’s certainly been enjoying the odd mud bath. Think I’m going to have to admit defeat and bring them in overnight. Pablo, my skewbald, box walks, so I try to keep them out as much as possible.
Good morning Clare. Wow, snow! I'm north east here in Ireland and we dont get much snow at all, i mean last year my daughter made a snowman that sat on her hand 😂 i would love it for the children to be able to go out and play in it! Although we are going to Lapland in December for 3 nights and cant wait to see their faces 😁
Question for you, what way do you cook your beans, i want to grow them next year to try out, last time i had them i think i cooked them in butter on the pan, just looking for another way to introduce them to my family
Morning Sinéad. That little snowman sounds so cute! Such a shame you don’t get much snow there, although you do live in such a beautiful country. Lapland will be amazing! What an experience for your children (and you). How wonderful!!
For the beans.. I’ve not grown them before but I intend to add the butter beans in to stews and soups, so they’ll mostly be cooked in stock. Butter in the pan sounds yummy too! Thanks for that suggestion in return ❤️❤️
@TheFarmyardGarden oh I've been to lapland twice already but it'll be my husbands first time.and childrens too, he looking forward to it too 😊 oh soup,how have I not thought of that! Although it'll be just 2 of us eating it, the other 3.arent fans
It's certainly been a week of weather hasn't it! Not too bad here in Herts, a bit cold, a bit windy and a smattering of snow, but nothing to write home about. Feel for those further north, who've had a right old battering! Fun clearing the fruit cage lol! I take my roof off in winter, but haven't done it yet so a timely reminder to do it, I need to get in there and have a good sort out too! Have you got a favourite Blueberry Clare? I had to ditch mine they just weren't happy with their lot and then got a heavy scale infestation, but I'm toying with giving them another go as I love blueberries!. Have a good week! 🙂
Smattering.. there’s a word I don’t hear very often anymore. I love that word. ❤️
We’re back to biblical rain, flooding and strong winds now. I really wish we could go back to the winter wonderland already 😂🙈
My favourite blueberry is the centre one of the three. The outside two are pink lemonade. Unfortunately they flowered earlier, so were caught by a late frost and didn’t produce much. The centre one came from a Blue Diamond garden centre and was simply labelled “garden inspirations”. It was so prolific and super tasty, with tender skins. I’ve sourced another one to add in over winter, but I’m thinking of extending the fruit cage first. 🙈
Looks like we have a drier week forecast, so hoping to get back in the garden and sort out everything that’s turned to mush 😅
Have a fab week ❤️