Pine BarrowDiary

An occasional record of jobs on the holding and walks off it. Mostly written in the evening, mostly about the weather.

This year's allotment plan

Four beds in rotation: brassicas where the beans were, roots where the brassicas were, potatoes in the manured bed, and legumes in the bed the potatoes cleaned.

An old map of the parish

Found a tithe map from the 1840s in the county archive, with every field named.

Pressing the apples

A good year for the old Bramley and the two unnamed eaters by the wall.

A dry stone wall, one course at a time

Part of the boundary wall slumped after the wet winter.

Keeping hens through the winter

Laying drops with the light and there is nothing to be done about it short of a bulb in the house, which I do not do.

Firewood: a year ahead

The stack felled last winter has dried to under twenty percent on the meter, which is what the stove wants.