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Making Charcoal
Today we learnt from an expert how to make charcoal.To start with you make a fire, steadily adding left-over wood remnants to it. Waiting for the wood to go black, with a white hue, then covering it in turfs, until no smoke escapes, to make sure all the heat is kept in and no oxygen […]
Rudolf the Red-Mud Render!
Yer Tiz…… we have nicknamed the render ‘rudolph’ as it this stuff is ‘Rudolf the Red-Mud Render’1 Ton of cob render … in convenient sized bucket … heavy though at 40kg each!Hmmmm. will it all fit in?Kevin’s cob and straw house near ottery St Mary. Sadly his roof caught fire and he is repairing it […]
Hard Landscaping
Meanwhile….up at Flowerepots Allotments ……. the decision has been taken to make this into an edible landscape in line with modern ideas about mixing flowers and vegetables in the same plot. To do this we have sat down and planned a garden design and the first think is to put in the hard landscaping. We […]
It rains AND it pours!
With the long dry spell continuing and no sign of rain, there is increasing concern about watering. As the only tap brings us UV filtered drinking water, we do not want to waste resources by using this for irrigation. After much thought by our resident genius engineer, there was suddenly a simple solution. harvest the […]
Feed the Birds
Recycled juice bottle, a wooden spoon and a bird seed 3 course meal for the birds! The great tits and chaffinches just LOVE it. A ‘well balanced’ diet!
Poly3 – sowing and seeds
We have pruned back the overgrown vines and swept out the top half of Poly3 ready to make use of the space and tables to create a nursery. As a back up to the outdoor planting, the same seeds have been sown in pots and trays in case of crop failure or bad weather. They […]
The White Stuff
For 6 months we have not been able to move forward with digging up at ‘Flowerpots Allotments’ due to a huge pile of nasty looking heavy unidentified white stuff. After much research it was concluded that this stuff was not toxic as was first feared, and was not lime as was also suggested but most […]
Water Aid
It is a miracle! We have a tap with running water! No more carrying heavy containers up the hill in a wheelbarrow, and constantly reminding everyone of how precious the resource is. However, it helps to be mindful of how much we can waste. It has taken months of research and searching the whole farm […]