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Spot the ragwort

Spot the ragwort

I’ve written about ragwort here before but I make no apologies for doing it again. There’s a lot of stuff in life that is as good as you make it and pulling ragwort is one, although I would definitely add – as long as you’re not doing it for too long. Our hay crop is looking […]

Feeding

Feeding

Daily feeding of hay and straw in the field is now underway and although we know this will last for only a matter of days, it is a bit of a pain. Not wanting to drive across the ground every day we are wheelbarrowing feed across one field – not exactly a brilliant solution in terms of time […]

Hay no rain – shock

Hay no rain – shock

    Almost unbelievably and for the first time on record the hay‘s under cover without having been rained on once. After a cold spell, we’ve had a week of scorching (for the UK) weather which has dried our grass beautifully. Even so we managed to make a meal of it. On Thursday we baled some then […]

Making hay

Making hay

Being away from home all day yesterday, I was spared involvement in the annual hay cutting decision. Which was something of a relief as it’s often a bit agonising.  A neighbour, Gordon has been cutting and baling our hay each summer since we started and whilst he and his family team do a wonderful job, […]

Blues and nitrogen

Blues and nitrogen

It is suddenly time to be thinking about hay making. We need the rain and some good, warm sunshine to get as much bulk into the grass as possible. Then a long spell of dry and hot to get it cut and baled. Our grass is, from the hay point of view, none too brilliant. As most […]