The Good Life?????

Friday, January 12, 2007

Planning the garden

Been in the house nearly a year now and it's time to plan the veg garden for the year, want to be a bit more organised this time, grow a lot of things that I know I'll eat, rather than a bit of this and a bit of that.
I've started to turn over the bit of turf that is remaining, so I've got a fair bit more growing space this season. The potatoes will be going in the bit I've turned over, heard they are supposed to break up the soil well... not sure how true this is, but sounds good to me!
Still no greenhouse and due to lack of funds, not likely to have one this year.

Planning on growing;
Potatoes
Peas
Carrots
Celeriac
Parsnips
Runner Beans
Mange Tout
Lettuce
Garlic
Spring Onion
Chard
Spinach
Butternut Squash
Broccoli
Cauliflower
Leeks
Cabbage

Monday, January 01, 2007


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Originally uploaded by Owen Rhys Williams.
Well it's taken me a while, but after months of shooting cans in the back garden, I finally managed to get out on New Years eve to go looking for Rabbits.

We were staying in a cottage down the Gower, which was owned by a farmer, who was happy for us to go and shoot on his land.

We found an area full of warrens and sat and waited. It was a clean head shot. The paunching and skinning was fairly easy. It's in the freezer now, can't decide what recipe to use....