The loganberries are early this year
They love sunshine and we’ve had plenty of that during May.
Each flower develops one berry, which has a juicier and sharper flavour than a raspberry. So we’ve been picking them as quickly as they ripen and making delicious jam.
The berries don’t all ripen at the same time so keep going back for more!
Strawberry crop at Springdale this year is amazing. Already picked 128lbs and it’s only the middle of June. Strawberries are on the menu every morning for breakfast.
Freshly made jam is delicious! A real taste of summer.
The Rivers’ Early Plum – Delicious eating plum, ready at the end of July 2018
Just before picking
First crop from this little tree
July 2018
Lettuce, tomatoes, chillis and peppers being grown in here at the moment
Tomatoes are just starting to ripen
Variety – Sweet Aperitif
Freshly picked
Lettuce, tomatoes, Jalapeño chillis
Courgettes from the fields
August 2018
Update on the polytunnel
Left side
Right side
Tomatoes
New season strawberries all ready.
Grown and picked at Springdale, our strawberries have been made into fruity jam
Fresh strawberries from the field
220g jars
350g jars
Springdale Strawberry Jam
Newly clad side of dormer
Newly clad dormer and vent holes created in soffits
Left side of the dormer also with new cladding
retiling to be completed here on the corner and the ridge over the new bedroom
new ridge tiles stretching over the hall from new kitchen extension and back bedroom to the very original old part of the house
Newly tiled roof sloping down sharply to flat roof over utility, not quite completed
Ridge tiles to be completed here
roof tiled over old kitchen
The three sloping roofs converging on the flat roof of the utility room
View of the three sloping roofs and view to garden beyond
view round to flat roof over utility and newly tiled roof sloping down to utility room
View through to field and the polytunnel from the flat roof over the new bedroom
Wood for fitted wardrobes prepared
Split levels – ground floor and new upstairs visible together
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Checking new lintel
Concrete slab for utility
View of garage through new kitchen
Looking through new window position
Top of new kitchen
View from kitchen through patio door to steps eventually
View of back garden
View of patio through scaffolding
View of polytunnel from top of scaffolding
View over garden to field 2
View to new kitchen window position
Between New Kitchen and Garage
New entrance to kitchen from utility room
Corner of New Kitchen
Day 20 – Progress so far
Scaffolding around back
View along back of house day 20
Day 11 – Thursday 14th July
Brickwork is now in place as far as possible.
The next step is to order the block and beams for the flooring.
Foundations behind new lounge, currently a bedroom
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