Slugs, mice or rats

We made a mistake in planting  4 courgette plants.
Courgettes hide amongst the foliage and turn into marrows.
large marrows.
The biggest we have  grew was 2.4 Kg.
So friends, neighbours and work colleagues have benefited

And marrows arew actually apretty uninspring vegetable, but there is marrow gratin  and marrow and carrot soup. The latter is actually  quite good.

But something has been getting at the escaped courgettes

Probably not rats- its diffuclt tos ee hoe they could get in but a  rat box will hopefully dissuade them form coming back .

Tree Hay

nd we have lots of bushes and small trees around ,that get regularly cut  back ( I hesitate to call it pruning)  .
So why not give it a go ?

A bush that has put on some growth throught the year

And after

And the products are tied together , put somewhere dry  with an even temperature . 

 adn watch this space !

not enough space

So even though we have 25 Acres or thereabouts, there isnt rally enough space for stuff.
And there is a land drain in an inconvenient place.

So a big pipe (600mm diameter ) in the bottom and quite a few barrel-loads of soil , and we have somewhere to put stuff.

And the soil came from the heap when we had the shed put up . It can't really stay as pile in the way and it has to go somewhere . And hopefully the overhang will collapse so its less shovelling  for the next bit

So who needs to go to a gym for an upper -body workout - you just shovel loads of soil for a couple of  afternoons !

A Delivery

And one of the fields has been cut and baled by a neighbour. And its dried and its time to bring it in , before the rain gets it damp and mouldy and unusable.

So Robbie comes along

Weve got 14 bales altogther  and 2 are going to a neighbour.  So with 4 per trip , its 3 trips

And a couple of hours later , we've got 12 rounds of hay , as well as some bales we got earlier in the season  all in the shed.

And there is still room to get the trailer in.

Repairing the pond .

The new run for the Jemima Puddleduck  duckling was put up in July 

It needed a small dam across the burn. But we have had sow much heavy bursts of rain  ir has washed away some of the bank

And some nifty work ( and wet gloves) with the stones

 So we shall see if it survives the next load of rain

Vandalism.

We accidentally left on eof the gates open .
And the geese took advantage.
They found their way into the polycrub.

And enjoyed the kale

And enjoyed the carrots

And there is nothing left of the lettuce.

Ao we wont be leaving a gate open again .

The Weigh-in

Some routine FEC-testing of the lambs indicated that there may be a problem with intestinal infestation with worms, so they needed some treatment.
And the  amount they are given depends on their weight - so we need to weoight them before dosing them.
We have a weighing crate so we needed to construct the race to get them lined up to be wieghed

And once weve done that, we need to get some sheep. This lot have been grazing on  one of the more distant fields.  So to bring them down and get thm in the right place we put up some electric fencing, bu without the electricity.  They have (hopefully) learned  not to touch the fence.

And once brought down, they need to be penned to stop them wandering

And once penned , and 'encouraged' to go into the race, they got weighed.

We only needed to dose the lambs, but as all the sheep  were down  , they all got weighed.