I know it's time to blog when....

....the last entry has slipped off the page. Hmmm, where DID April go?

Moving along, I've been busy adapting Little Miss Muffet to fit my nine-but-soon-to-be-ten year old. As written the pattern only goes up to fit a 5-year old so I've tweaked the numbers to give me the size that I want. The cardigan is worked from the top down so it is relatively easy to measure as I knit. The main concern at the moment revolves around the amount of yarn that is being consumed. Have I bought enough?

Watch this space.

Until very recently we had two Cornish Black pigs here on the farm. Now that they have moved on to slightly, shall we say, chillier digs (read: the freezer), they have left behind them the most beautifully turned-over, fertilised plot. We set to work with a rotovator and threw ourselves into a frenzy of planting. Helping us was the father-in-law who is a champion leek-grower in his village in Cumbria - always good to get a little expert help.

He has returned home now so it's up to me to establish my own gardening credentials. I've never grown vegetables on this scale before but am enjoying it immensely. Progress has been a little slow: kind of like knitting fair-isle on very small needles. So much work, so little to show for it. I did start the planting a few weeks in advance of May Day which, I belatedly discovered, is the traditional date for planting out.

So the green shoots are showing in most of the vegetable plot at least. This (largely brown) area is given over to growing the most enormous cabbages which will, hopefully, provide over-winter feed for the next batch of freezer-fillers (pigs).

I'm watching this space too.

Posted by Anita at May 5, 2009 03:27 PM