After recent events with the foxes visit life around the smallholding is getting back to normal, we are being extra careful making sure all the livestock are locked up to prevent any further mishaps.
With the recent warm weather everything in the polytunnel is coming on leaps and bounds, and today Sharon picked a lot of courgettes, cucumbers, lettuce and peppers and very shortly will be picking a host of tomatoes.
Sharon will be making some Cucumber Relish and some Piccalili and I will give you the recipies for them shortly. Our runner beans are also doing very well and it looks like the best crop we have had since we've been here.
I spoke to my Mum today who told me an interesting story. A while back I gave her a couple of Sungold Tomato plants, she has lovingly cared for them and they have been doing very well, however everytime some of them turned red they would vanish into thin air. Mum who was eager to taste the fruits of her labour started a covert survellance operation, after days of watching, the culprit was finally unearthed, a Squirrel no less was seen troting accross the lawn got up on its back legs and swiftly despached a couple of nice red tomatos, Mum could harldly believe her eyes but the plants are now covered up and she is eagerly awaiting the next red tomato.
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