Archive of Gardening
Vegetable Week: Pumpkin Bed
on June 29th, 2011 in Gardening, Vegetables by Dan | 7 CommentsI’m a bit behind already with my Vegetable Week here on the blog. This is due to a sever attack of the can’t be arsed. At this rate it may have to stray into next week – maybe even take over the whole of July. Which could only be a…
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Vegetable Week: Prologue
on June 26th, 2011 in Gardening, Vegetables by Dan | 6 CommentsThe problem with being a man of wandering whims and fancies is that while I have a lot of enthusiasm, I sometimes struggle to see things through to the end. This is never more evident than in my efforts to grow fruit and veg. I always start out with boundless…
Continue reading...Burn Baby Burn
on March 19th, 2011 in Chickens, Ducks, Gardening by Dan | 8 CommentsI spent the majority of today in the garden hitting things with hammers. And most enjoyable it was too. Unfortunately we’ve recently lost a couple of chickens and a duck to the local fox, and so I decided my previously rather slack poultry containment efforts needed shoring up. The aim…
Continue reading...Huston we have Duck Eggs
on February 17th, 2011 in Ducks, Midnight Movie Club by Dan | 9 CommentsI found these in the duck shed yesterday morning, and another one there today. Bloody marvelous! In other news, the latest episode of Lee and Dan’s Midnight Movie Club Podcast is now out. This week we’re talking about the 1982 comedy Night Shift staring Batman, the Fonz and that woman…
Chicken Wire
on February 10th, 2011 in Chickens, Ducks by Dan | 15 CommentsThis morning I’ve spent a good couple of hours working on my garden fence. It seems the chickens and the ducks have banded together to form the A.D.F.E.C (Allied Domestic Fowl Escape Committee), and are working towards driving me into an early grave. The chickens have somehow figured how to…
Continue reading...A Pile of Wood.
on January 5th, 2011 in Gardening by Dan | 12 CommentsA couple of weeks ago I posted a video tour of my back garden. The first words of which were “Ok, there is a pile of wood”. I have lived to regret that video: http://www.facebook.com/#!/pages/Dans-wood-pile/186544498038131 If that bloody facebook page gets more friends than I do then I shall be…
Continue reading...A Rather Dull Tour
on December 20th, 2010 in Gardening by Dan | 20 CommentsJohn over at Going Gently periodically posts videos from his little smallholding, so I thought I’d have a go myself. Prepare to wonder at the lavish opulence of my extensive estate. Bookmark It
Continue reading...And On That Farm He Had A Duck
on December 8th, 2010 in Ducks by Dan | 25 CommentsYesterday I ventured into deepest darkest Wales in order to collect the ducks that John (of Going Gently fame) has donated to my miniature smallholding. Here they are huddled together in hysterical panic in the corner of the converted wendyhouse which is their new home. Apparently this state of hysteria…
Continue reading...How to make Amy and Evan very excited
on September 7th, 2010 in Ducks, Gardening by Dan | 10 CommentsWe were all rather thrilled to see over on John’s blog yesterday that the ducklings have hatched. Seeing them there all cute and cuddly makes me feel a little regretful that I’m not shooting down to Wales this very minute to go pick them up. However the prospect of having…
Continue reading...In the garden again
on August 21st, 2010 in Chickens, Gardening by Dan | 27 CommentsThere is a secret to gardening that they don’t tell you in any of the books or TV shows. But it’s a secret that’s well worth knowing none-the-less: Always take your glasses off before you go out to do some work in the garden. This year alone I have lost…
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