Dorset lifestyle
Poppy enjoying the scent and taste after standing on the pot and crushing the leaves, fortunately deer don’t like it so if the cats don’t destroy it the plant should survive. Started a new sheep shelter in laneside, the first arrangement of pallets isn’t quite right so will have to modify. The sheep spent all day in the same paddock and settled in the arcs together when it rained. Picked raspberries, strawberries and blackcurrants. A cool day with sunshine and showers.
Have replaced the rhubarb in the border by the hedge and will produce clusters of fruit from June until August, have added a few redcurrant plants as well. There’s an increase in the number of flies on the poo picked from the paddocks so the cold nights aren’t stopping them multiplying, the sheep have been dosed so are protected from fly strike, and the donkeys are having a daily application of citronella spray. Lunch in the marquee at The Baker Arms, a cold sunny start to the day with a fresh easterly breeze.
