knitting, nature and living with autism in the family
It’s been lovely and spring-like here this afternoon, appropriate for the first day after the clocks change for summer time.
Toby and I have been in the garden most of the afternoon – I’ve been planting out my lettuce seedlings, onion sets and sowing some carrot seeds and Toby has been swinging, bouncing and running around in his jammies and wellies!
He’s also had fun helping feed the girls.
It’s lovely to be out in the fresh air together and to kick off our veg growing season for this year.
The last few days have been spent in the garden where everything is winding down. We’ve picked the last of the tomatoes, courgettes, raspberries and carrots and have lots of onions now in storage. There are a few beans still producing, a couple of potato bags left to dig up and the cabbages, kale and broccoli are still going strong. But it definitely feels like we’re getting down to the last of the yummies our garden has to offer us for this year.
We’ve had a bumper crop of grapes this year – although we mostly leave them for the birds as they’re not very sweet.
Now the garden is being tided and cleared ready for digging in some compost to get everything ready for next season and then a nice winter rest. The chickens have been helping me tidy up – they do a great job of breaking up the soil!
It’s been lovely to watch them roaming around outside of their run which is possible once again now that Toby isn’t spending so much time in the garden (a small boy who likes to put anything in his mouth and run around barefoot does not mix well with large quantities of chicken poo on the grass!)
I topped up the chicken’s dust bath yesterday.
At first it was an orderly affair, then there were 2 in on the act, and eventually all three were crammed into the pot
Daft creatures they are at times, but great entertainment!
little cotton rabbits 