Spring Equinox = Lambing on the farm

Afternoon All,


What a busy few days it's been.  The sun has been shining, the birds have been tweeting and the trees are starting to bud.  Spring is officially here!




Spring Bulb Bouquet wrapped in hessian

 On the plot and in the polytunnels we have a mass of seedlings growing and waiting to be 'pricked out' and 'potted on' and more seeds waiting to be sown.  Some of our early spring bulbs that have been cosseted and looked after over winter have been flowering for a week or so now and it is nice to see a splash of colour about the place.  Fingers crossed we will have plenty of flowers in bloom for Mothering Sunday on April 3rd to make lots of lovely locally grown spring bulb bouquets.  Also, don't forget that we will be launching our flower bucket scheme in May this year for people that live in the Brecon, Powys area.  Drop us an email here if you'd like to receive further information closer to the time.


In amongst watering the polytunnel, pricking out, potting on and seed sowing it's also lambing time!  So besides trying to stop sheep from eating the tops off all our Spring bulbs, everyone has been busy seeing to the ever increasing number of lambs, moving sheep from field to shed to field again, feeding, and off course general sheepy maintenance. 


By the way.... did you know that sheep are rather partial to nibbling tasty stems off Rhubarb plants?!  I do.  Having gone to the veg plot one morning to find that something had eaten all the Rhubarb, Purple Sprouting Broccoli and then moved onto the flowers plots to start munching on the spring bulbs.


Rhubarb definitely seems to be the favourite snack for the sheep here judging by the way the crown was nibbled to below ground level.  Alliums and Anemone leaves apparently aren't quite as tasty to sheep.  Much to the annoyance of 'the farmer' who would rather he ate the Rhubarb in a crumble than have the sheep eat it.  He'd rather they ate the flower bulbs.

Also, the new polytunnel has finally been finished and got it's sheet on.  Wooohooo!  Pictures and polytunnel building escapades, will follow later on in the week once I've figured out how to bluetooth them from my phone.

Had better get on, the ewes will be wanting their tea soon.

Cheerio.

Cathy
www.breconblooms.com