Bank Holiday weekend has been pretty busy at the Smallest Smallholding. With all the rain and mirth of the past few weeks and million gazillion other things that need doing around the place, parts of the Smallest Smallholding are looking very scrappy and unloved. But this weekend I’m trying to change that. We’ve [...]
Poor little Pattie Cake. She keeps laying soft eggs. I know it’s Pattie because they all have very distinctive eggs. We did have a spate a few weeks ago, but her soft eggs have been coming out almost daily now for over a good week and a half. I fear it is partly my [...]
I’m an avid feeder of animals. I just can’t help myself. Aside from the Smallest Smallholding’s resident cats and hens, I also feed hedgehogs (we occasionally release hedgehogs for Bedfordshire Wildlife Rescue too) and wild birds. As different wild birds prefer to eat different foods in different ways - for instance, goldfinches like to eat [...]
As far as I know, part of the Smallest Smallholding is sited on the remains of an old orchard, most of which has vanished in the intervening years. We have a very old, knarly Victoria plum tree, two damsons and crab apple. The crab apple, when uncovered after years of struggling to grow under 6ft [...]
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