Yesterday was garden day, and it started off really foggy - driving up the road you could hardly see 20 metres in front of you at some points. 
But just as we started to hoe (or rather as Ben started to wrestle with the rotary hoe) the fog burnt off and it was a real spring day.The rotary hoe is great but the soil was a bit soft and wet still I think so it made it hard going - not for me as I was in a supervisory role but it kind of looked hard work for Ben. I had to disappear halfway through it all as I had a riding lesson, so when I left, the garden was still pretty rough looking and Ben was still wrestling with the hoe.
Came back to a hoed garden and this morning we planted some lettuce, carrots and peas. There are lettuces on the left, peas on the right and carrots down the back.
Also have some beetroot to plant, and will do more carrots and peas in a few weeks so we don't have them all coming on at once (that's the theory 
anyway). Now we just need to make sure the chooks don't break in and dig everything up!
No udder pics today although she is filling up more and more each day. Will probably put her in the small paddock by the end of the week although I think she is a wee way off yet.
Lesson yesterday was great although Choc (and me) were both pooped at the end. He was even sweating - I clearly don't work him hard enough normally to make him sweat like that! Also I think the neighbour's arena is a lot harder going for him than the pony club arena that we used yesterday.
The cats were helping us with the garden too, Mera was all over the rosemary plant we got and ended up cuddling up to it. Sunny came over to hang out with her and they all sat in the sun happily for, oh, four minutes? The pics tell it all really...
Not much love going on there!
Came back to a hoed garden and this morning we planted some lettuce, carrots and peas. There are lettuces on the left, peas on the right and carrots down the back.
Also have some beetroot to plant, and will do more carrots and peas in a few weeks so we don't have them all coming on at once (that's the theory 
anyway). Now we just need to make sure the chooks don't break in and dig everything up!No udder pics today although she is filling up more and more each day. Will probably put her in the small paddock by the end of the week although I think she is a wee way off yet.
Lesson yesterday was great although Choc (and me) were both pooped at the end. He was even sweating - I clearly don't work him hard enough normally to make him sweat like that! Also I think the neighbour's arena is a lot harder going for him than the pony club arena that we used yesterday.
The cats were helping us with the garden too, Mera was all over the rosemary plant we got and ended up cuddling up to it. Sunny came over to hang out with her and they all sat in the sun happily for, oh, four minutes? The pics tell it all really...
Not much love going on there!
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