winter has come

A bit late this year - but nevertheless .

Looking down the hill  .  We are clearly above the snowline !

  but the road is a bit dodgy

Job done

Cuthbert 

We think the ewes are  have all been tupped, so we take the rams out and they  go bak into the field all together. 

And we are putting the  varous pregnant ewes all together for a few weeks.

Polycrub in January

So it has withstood the 70mph winds - must be somthign to do with the 3.4tonne of concrete round the  posts.

And we had a fair bit of produce out of it last year , in spite of the late start.

And its January , so  there isnt much daylight at the moment , and anyway the polycrub (and house) dont get direct sunlight for another couple of weeks .

And stuff is still growing in the polycrub

Weve got purple sprouting brocolli  - this thing is almost 5' tall , but with no  purple heads yet

And a pea must have fallen from where they were growing last year .
And its sprouted, so ive put a few more alongside it and we'll see if we get some early peas.

And the artichokes are continuing to grow
















And the vine has picked up , after an initial stumble



















And i didnt think this was supposed to happen  in January .