Sunday, 7 August 2011

Urban Food Production Part 3

Wasp nest found in tire in front garden, it is so delicate made from bark pulp with hexagonal cells to lay brood
 My first crop of apples from the front garden yummy!
 The garden now is like a jungle, every time I go outside I am greeted with some thing wonderful
 More apples on a young tree
 Peas in pods cant wait fro a tasty green salad
 Strawberry's you have to beat the slugs!
 Carrots and spinach
 More and more beans!
 The pools had a little tidy
 Thorn less blackberrys

 Green tomatoes

 Melons needing support
 Cucumbers thriving
 Hazel 2 m tall!
 Raspberries of plenty... Raspberry vinegar!
 A jungle of plenty!
 Just let it grow...
 Blueberry... any spare blueberry vodka, ready for cold nights and roaring fires
 Potatoes washed dried and stored, now in goes the leeks and beetroot
 Stray Raspberry
 Marigolds great companion plant petals brighten any dish
 Cabbage growing slowly
 Swede hidden in the jungle
 Some apples left and the new chucks have arrived!
 Our recycled and self built chicken house for our Norfolk greys
 The mighty cockerel... well he will be as he grows and develops his voice at the break of dawn
 Chloes seating
 Up the garden where we find the chickens and bees
 Me and my daughter built this hen house all recycle apart from the mesh in total it cost £20.00 A bargain, not to mention the fun we had constructing it! happy days
 Our Black rock hens
 Behind the fence is the busy bees
 Wait a moment..
 I thought id show you the beginning of my wood stores for the winter months
 Heres the hive a traditional wbc


 Bee line, there is more to come in a few picks ill show you inside



 Jobs a good one
 Hazel and oak



 Fish feeding

 Grape vine on left
 Growing well
 Lilly's providing shelter and shade

 Busy bee 1
 Busy bee 2


 Rowan berries ready
 Hazel nuts

 Beetroot


 Wildflowers



 3rd crop of rhubarb
 More beans
 Chucks out!






 Kale
 Apples and Rhubarb


I am going preserves crazy!

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