Peasants garden

Simo · **Posted:** Mon Aug 29, 2011 10:28 am

Passionfruit???

Burnsy · **Posted:** Mon Aug 29, 2011 1:09 pm

Simo wrote:

Passionfruit???

Jealous, my vines produced buds but they flowers all fell off before they opened up - anyone know what causes that :cry:

Simo · **Posted:** Mon Aug 29, 2011 1:21 pm

Lack of potassium maybe, I know it can't be from lack of pollination at your place Burnsy.

Burnsy · **Posted:** Mon Aug 29, 2011 1:28 pm

Will add some potassium for next year. They never opened up to get pollinated, fell off just as they were begining to crack open. There were not that many to start with either. Thought it may have been temp related as they all seemed to drop at once, were no frosts at the time though.

Peasants · **Posted:** Mon Aug 29, 2011 9:04 pm

Yes, they are passionfruit, and we have quite a lot (sorry :blush:

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We do feed them often (they are near the chook house so get lots of chook poo). What about water? maybe yours didn't get enough?? Also how old are they? They don't have a long life so maybe it has 'expired'?????

Peasants · **Posted:** Sun Sep 04, 2011 10:36 am

Not good news.....the second ewe had triplets, but all died.....it was heartbreaking to find them yesterday....
We don't actually know why-it could have been because they were born on Friday evening during the stormy weather (and being triplets they probably would have been a bit weak), or whether they were actually still born......don't know
The ewe had never had triplets before, so maybe it was just too many for her, though Wiltshires apparently do often have triplets.....
There is that down side to rural living and having animals.

Simo · **Posted:** Sun Sep 04, 2011 11:06 am

buggar

earthbound · **Posted:** Sun Sep 04, 2011 2:12 pm

Oh dear....

Yep, that downside of having lots of animals, still it's reality, and a constant reminder of the cycles of life.

Peasants · **Posted:** Mon Sep 05, 2011 10:28 pm

Too true

On the upside....the wheat and oats have grown very well and will provide an extra feed source for the sheep....

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Nugget and Finn..."in the jungle, the mighty jungle...."

Faye · **Posted:** Tue Sep 06, 2011 6:32 pm

That would make a lovely family photo blown up and framed on a wall in the house :thumb:

Peasants · **Posted:** Sat Sep 17, 2011 11:53 am

Eiger, our gorgeous Giant! He is such a lovely, laid-back, friendly rabbit 8-)

and loves getting a cuddle. He comes to school with me during the week and hops around the classroom (when he is not sleeping or peering out from his cubby under a table)....then on weekends he comes back for 'home duties'

Peasants · **Posted:** Sun Sep 25, 2011 3:04 pm

Well, nature struck again with the death of the ewe :sad2:

Very sad, especially as she was the only remaining ewe from our original introduction of Wiltshires in January 2007. Don't know why...mastitis perhaps as she had no lambs suckling, or maybe having the triplets was not good for any of them. She was also a mature ewe when we got her, so maybe she was getting old....
On the upside, the twin lambs are doing well and both female, so we may keep them to add to our breeding stock.

Faye · **Posted:** Sun Sep 25, 2011 3:41 pm

Nature can be cruel and this farming thing is not for the faint hearted. Sorry to hear :cry:

Glad that the others are doing well.

Peasants · **Posted:** Tue Oct 04, 2011 6:41 pm

Nature at work again...on the good side! We have chicks :joy:

Peasants · **Posted:** Sat Oct 22, 2011 6:27 pm

The chicks have grown and enjoy having a scratch around in the dirt with mum.

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We also had a botanist visit the other day and she pointed out some native orchids we had....we hadn't even known they were there! The tall one I think is a common mignionette, but not sure what the smaller one is....

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Today we bought 7 turkey poults, currently in a cage with a light as they are still very young. We used to have turkeys years ago, but they were killed by a fox. We have finally got around to building a new fox proof enclosure to house them in, so fingers crossed!

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