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.
Aqua dulce is the variety.
A lot of slug pellets were needed around the emerging plants. Also to try and keep the black fly off they were covered in fleece.
Date of photo of beans covered in fleece.- 28th May 2018 – Hoops and garden canes were used to hold the fleece above the plants and pegged down along the edges.
Broad beans ready for picking and podding
July 14th 2018
Ready for the pot! And some to be blanched and frozen. 10lbs in total of podded beans.
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
Path between garage and kitchen. More Indian Sandstone slabs were delivered and have been cut.
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Pathway between new kitchen and garage. Slabs being laid. Also scratch coat on new kitchen wall has been applied.
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Tiling of the new roof continued. Much progress was made today.
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back of house view
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Tiles starting to go on roof now
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