Ravendale House

At the beginning of this week the weather forecasters warned of cold temperatures and a severe frost on Wednesday night, time for action then.

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Here’s a question. What can you buy for 48p these days? (That’s just short of 10 bob for those of you happier pre-decimal)

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I wrote some time ago of how I’d given up on my brassicas, my cauliflowers have been a disaster for the second year running, but today I’m pleased to report I harvested a cabbage.

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Todays tally . . . . . .

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It’s becoming a daily routine, walk around the field and see what bizarre or grizzly thing you can find that wasn’t there yesterday, and so it was today.

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As the title suggests, this post is all about getting the garden ready for winter, which, if it’s anything like last year, came early and severely, long before Xmas.

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The other day I wrote about the strange goings-on in our field, well today it got stranger and grizzlier.

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Having a big garden means that as well as producing fruit, veg and flowers, we also produce a lot of rubbish. By this I mean weeds, prunings, hedge trimmings and the like, most of which we compost, but some we have to burn. On average we have a bonfire twice a year.

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There isn’t much gardening getting done here at the moment, it’s far too hot, so here is a little conundrum for you to ponder.

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A few days ago I wrote about 30 sparrows on the lawn, well yesterday I think I had another sparrow record.

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