Small-Scale Smallholding, A Tiny Farm In A Big Garden
Yesterday we planted new fruit trees in the orchard, much later than we'd planned due to weather conditions making the ground too boggy to dig. There are 9 mature fruit trees that make our orchard so enchanting (especially now, as the blossom starts to show), but we wanted to add a few trees of our own. We planted Granny … Continue reading Planting Fruit Trees
Chilly evenings and dewy mornings, my favourite time of year is fast approaching. The mature fruit trees in our garden were planted many years ago in rows, giving the appearance of an orchard. We've always wanted our very own orchard and that's how we refer to our wonderful old trees. Dripping with fruit in shades of green, purple, red and yellow, the garden has never … Continue reading Our Very Own Orchard
It has been a month since we moved house, how time flies. We're more or less settled in the new house with just a few boxes left to unpack, just bits and pieces that we didn't really use before so they're sure to find their way to the loft space at some point. The weather has been bitterly … Continue reading Our New Garden
I'm so pleased with our vegetable garden now, particular because it was such hard graft to get anything growing in the first place. The whole plot was a jungle only a few months ago, you could barely access any of it let alone dig it. All the hard work has paid off and now we … Continue reading Growing Our Own
Not a nice surprise at that. On attempting to get our mini orchard off to a flying start by planting some of the fruit trees recently purchased, (including our rather lovely Scrumptious apple) we hit something hard with our spades, lurking just below the lawn. "Oh, it's just a large stone" I said in hope. Surely … Continue reading An Underground Surprise
We have been looking around for more apple trees to join our young Cox's Orange Pippin. After some research we decided on Discovery, still debating on a few others. Discovery was proving difficult to get on the rootstock that we wanted, so we had a chat with the fruit buyer at our local garden centre. … Continue reading Apple Scrumptious
