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Chicks Chicks Chicks!

Posted on May 3, 2014 by Bidders

I keep hens because they lay lovely eggs. I love that I have beautiful yellow yolked eggs whenever I want them, I never need to worry about the condition of the hens producing them, because I can look out the … Continue reading →

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Quail chicks!

Posted on April 25, 2012 by Bidders

When I told people I’d bought 12 quail eggs off ebay to hatch they laughed. As I signed for the little (heavily wrapped) package the postman actually told me it would never work. To an extent I could understand them … Continue reading →

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Preparing the raised beds

Posted on March 4, 2012 by Bidders

It’s a sunny day, its March and the time has come to really make an impression on the garden. I’ve had all sorts of plans coming and going about what I’m going to do with the place but now its … Continue reading →

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My new “garden guests”

Posted on February 2, 2012 by Bidders

This morning I filled the birdys nuts. Since we moved to the new house we’ve had the usual visitors, robins, blackbirds, chaffinch, blue tits, great tits and dunnocks, yesterday we had our first woodpecker, (I was so excited and he … Continue reading →

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Bee Mix Bees

Posted on July 11, 2011 by Bidders

During the planting season I took a small square of the garden to plant for bees, a couple of packs of mixed seed ‘bee mix’ and that was about all it needed. The ‘bee corner’ is now dappled in colour … Continue reading →

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Baby garden birds

Posted on June 22, 2011 by Bidders

As well as the fruit and veg beginning to show in abundance so too are our little feathered guests. Sparrows have colonised the roof, great tits have begun flying in flocks and the incessant cheeping is enough to make the … Continue reading →

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Posted on May 12, 2011 by Bidders

Its taken a few months for it to look like this and even now nothing is quite ready to harvest and eat. Despite that I can’t helping feeling incredibly proud of our little veg patch. I’ve grown herbs intermittently for … Continue reading →

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