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No time to Spare here on the Smallholding

Today I had a call from Lincolnshire Pride Magazine, asking me to do a feature on Natural Beekeeping, but had to decline, as I haven’t time to spare. Everything needs doing yesterday, and after a weekend away with my son, I’m already behind.

Jobs that are behind include the start of my scything season, the cutting of comfrey and nettles for liquid feed, soaking bean seeds, potting on of trees, shrubs, and vegetables, putting out additional bait hives, planting Eucalyptus, and of course keeping up with posts on the blog.

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Another busy day growing plants

Today was another successful day, with all of the jobs that I set myself, completed. Admittedly, I try not to overextend myself too much, but even so, I’m pleased with what I achieved. Two more beds re-orientated North  to South, and Comfrey root cuttings taken, to propagate more Comfrey for creating Guilds next Winter More details, and some photographs follow.

I also have some pictures of my bamboo showing signs of growth, and some new pictures of the Sweetcorn seedlings, and tree seeds, from recent posts

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Growing Sweetcorn is Child’s Play

I have been taking pictures of a batch of Sweetcorn seeds that I have been growing this week, and it occurred to me that Sweetcorn would be an ideal plant to use to help to  get children interested in growing food. If kept warm, it germinates quickly, the root and shoot grow quickly, it can be planted on the  surface of your compost, where it is visible at all times. Sweetcorn grows into a nice big plant, which is quite exciting, and the taste is superb.

The pictures and details follow.

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More Seed Soaking

Perhaps it’s the time of year, but my little control panel is telling me that a lot of people are still finding The Sustainable Smallholding Blog, whilst searching for information about seed soaking. As I have had quite a lot of seeds soaking over the past week, I thought that I’d take some more pictures, and expand on the two earlier articles that I have posted.

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Sustainable Smallholding Pictures and Update

Hi everyone

A few of my recent posts have not had pictures. It’s difficult to take them when your hands are covered in soil/compost/muck, so today I did a quick walk around, before work, and again afterwards, to help keep you up to date with what our place looks like, and what we’ve been up to.

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