Peas.

I did a good hour of weeding in the garden today. That's quite impressive as I hate weeding. I've also picked all of my giant peas, I've podded them and they are having a couple of minutes in boiling water before I freeze um.

By gum they took a long time to pod. 

That's half of my crop (the stuff that made it to the house) should be 5 or 6 feeds. :)

Giant spuds.

I dug up some potatoes today. I pulled a turnip and carrot on my way back to the house too. This is the second lot of tatoes and I've only just finished the first row. I ate the carrot just a second ago. It was pretty nice but not the best carrot ever. This was the first time I've grown caracus carrots. Not sure what I'm going to do with the turnip but I'm baking the biggest spuds. 

Those are some massive first early potatoes.

Better in the morning.

I've been exhausted for months now. I'm really, really struggling to work two jobs, do the garden and sort out the chickens. At the moment I've got three groups of chickens. The ex-batts, two of the babies that went to live at the school (here for a holiday) and two 9 day old chicks. 2 chicks from 6 I might add. I've never had such unhealthy little chicks. The constant attempts, seemingly in vain, to keep the house clean, and keeping the house stocked up with food, toothpaste etc. And all of the other chores like baking the bread, getting keys cut and cleaning out the snakes/snails etc. It's just really, really hard and repetitive, especially as I can't drive or afford buses, and I'm struggling and I'm just so fed up of it all. I'm really considering selling my chickens and putting all of the garden to lawn.

Hopefully I'll feel better tomorrow.

CHICKS!

Blah.

Well, Other than topping up the chickens water and filling up lots of little containers with water for them I've just not left the house since getting back from work at 8:30 AM . The concrete burns your feet! I took a step outside the back door to fill up the spare dog water bowl in the garden and I couldn't stand to keep my feet on the path. I guess the dogs won't be going out until the evening then.

We had a rather nasty thunder storm at about lunch time. It was the puppy's first ever. I don't think she liked it very much. She hide behind the door with half her body on the TV stand shelf.

Being trapped inside has meant I've been able to catch up on my sleep though. I didn't sleep well at all last night due to the heat. So I had a couple of hours kip on the sofa.

Home-made pizza.

I made the bases out of sour-dough and they turned out so GOOD!

The top one was mine. Its BBQ sauce, with squash, onion scapes and like 6 different cheeses.

The second one is the BFs, its BBQ sauce, six different cheeses and kebab. 

First new potatoes of the year picked and eaten 27th June.

And boy were they good. :) I had new potatoes, freshly picked cut and come again lettuce, Wensleydale cheese, and home-made bread with garlicky cream cheese. It was totally delicious.


If you haven't noticed I'm back from my holiday and I feel really refreshed. The garden has gone mad and it looks more like i was gone a month not a week. I'm trying not to feel overwhelmed by it all but its kinda difficult.

The first plant I dug up only had four potatoes but it only needed to feed me.

It was so nice. >_<