Pine BarrowSeasons

An occasional record of jobs on the holding and walks off it. Mostly written in the evening, mostly about the weather.

Wild garlic season

The wood below the house is white with it for about three weeks.

Mending the five-bar gate

The top hinge had worked loose from the post and the gate was dragging a groove in the track.

Laying the hedge, finally

The hawthorn along the lane had grown leggy and gappy, so this was the winter to lay it.

Moss on the north roof

The north slope of the roof grows a thick moss cushion that holds water against the slates and blocks the gutters every autumn.

This year's allotment plan

Four beds in rotation: brassicas where the beans were, roots where the brassicas were, potatoes in the manured bed, and legumes in the bed the potatoes cleaned.

An old map of the parish

Found a tithe map from the 1840s in the county archive, with every field named.