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Friday 31 July 2015

Look what the hens left me.


These are the eggs the chickens have laid for me on Tuesday, on the left is a normal sized egg and on the right the one that makes your eyes water its a bout three times the size of a usual egg, much too big for the egg box. It will be interesting to see if it's a double yolker or maybe even a triple yolker!

The courgette plants are also producing well I'm making sure to harvest them as soon as the flowers are dying off so the fruits don't start to rot.

We had to wait around Tuesday  to "catch" fresh poo samples from the ponies. Maggie over at Equi-lab has analysied them for me and phoned with the results and we have low worm counts on all three ponies so now we can think about putting  Scout and Berty into the same paddock, watch this space to see how that goes.

Pete has spent a lot of time working on the mini tractor ( a ride on mower without it's cutting deck) to get it running again, refurbished the starter motor, cleaned out the fuel tank and filters and a new spark plug put in. So it's been taken apart and put back together again lots of times. Very pleased to say it's running well now, I took it for a run to the end of the lane and back again last night and it ran fine. Pleased to say it started first time tonight too!

Weather is being kind so must contact our friend to come over and cut and bale our grass for haylage soo.

Monday 27 July 2015

27th July 2015

Today we have harvested our first runner beans (Red Emperor) 250 grams, plenty for tea.
So far we have peas, blueberries and courgettes ready for harvesting but the cucumbers won't be long.

We had visitors to the plot today, four great nephews and two great nieces, two nieces and a husband, a brother, sister in law and two friends. All animals were on their best behaviour and Tiff gave the little ones rides around her paddock.

Saturday 25 July 2015


Meet Berty  and Scout nose to nose.

We have had Berty  for 2 months now he has settled in nicely. He really doesn't like having his feet picked up but I managed to clean them out yesterday. We had the farrier out last week and I can honestly say it was a battle to get his shoes off but I take my hat off to Nigel Stevens he was a star.

Thursday 28 May 2015

Bear with me I'm new to all this

Well here goes. We have had Megwynn's Plot now for five years but we finally made and put the sign up last night so now seems like the ideal time to start this blog.
I will tell you a bit about us. I am a full time Mum to two girls and a smallholder. The girls are now 15, soon to be 16 and 12. My husband helps out a lot and provides the funds to keep us going.
We have two ponies, Scout a strawberry roan Welsh section C, who is scared of his own shadow, and Tiffany a rescued Shetland who's only aim in life is to eat. Eight chickens of varying breeds provide us with eggs most days, no doubt I will introduce you to them all as I go on. Lastly on the plot we have two black runner ducks.
At home we have two dogs Mollie the border collie and Ruby the German Shorthaired Pointer.

So in a nutshell this is us, I hope to keep you informed of our activities so as to try and keep a diary for me.
Thank you for reading.