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Post by 4wd on Aug 13, 2013 12:48:25 GMT
Cutting new red clover ley for silage bales. This was sown in mid-May direct into last year's spring barley stubble. At the start of July problem weeds like Fat Hen and cleavers were topped. Six weeks later a decent leafy cut.
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Post by genuinerisk on Aug 13, 2013 19:33:12 GMT
And (nearly) all is safely being gathered in.... Getting bales in earlier this evening..
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Post by wr on Aug 15, 2013 22:19:23 GMT
Some nice grass there 4wd and a good load on your trailer Jools.
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Post by jackladd on Aug 17, 2013 15:32:29 GMT
Cutting new red clover ley for silage bales. Rocket fuel!
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Post by Joyce on Aug 18, 2013 19:17:47 GMT
My view this evening
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Post by 4wd on Aug 18, 2013 21:43:20 GMT
Ants in your Pants - well you soon would have if you stood here long! Old walls revealed by clear-felling. Wood Piles Cropton Forest today.
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Post by 4wd on Aug 23, 2013 8:12:54 GMT
Claas Dominator in winter barley yesterday near Levisham, Pickering. There was a huge amount of straw, and he was crawling - although it appeared to be a young lad driving with Dad instructing.
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Post by jackladd on Aug 23, 2013 22:45:28 GMT
Claas Dominator in winter barley yesterday near Levisham, Pickering. There was a huge amount of straw, and he was crawling - although it appeared to be a young lad driving with Dad instructing. ... saying "Oh no! Is that some H&S bloke taking a photo of us?" snap
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Post by 4wd on Aug 24, 2013 6:56:57 GMT
They did look a bit worried at first, the older guy climbed out while it was moving too! But I was talking to him by the gate as I thought it must be spring barley at first - plus I know them anyway it's Mortimers.
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Post by 4wd on Aug 24, 2013 10:56:46 GMT
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Post by rgsp on Aug 25, 2013 16:54:29 GMT
Photos taken around the holding today, 25th August 2013 Early cooking apple, Rev. W Wilkes. They don't keep at all well, but are nice and sweet once cooked, and VERY large sometimes, as you can see from the 50p piece on that one. This is how to get a walnut crop: chickens under the cropping walnut trees, behind electric netting. The squirrels don't like the arrangement at all. They'll nick every single walnut otherwise, which runs into hundreds. Amazingly enough, we still have some nice ripe yellow sweet cherries in good condition. I just like the view out from the darkish wood across the sleeper bridge and the gate into the sunshine. The sleepers have to be firmly held down by big angle iron stakes, or the sheep go under the bridge when it's dry, and lift the sleepers up and chuck them around. Our sheep are seriously muscular: good thing they're fairly bright and amenable by sheep standards. Wild rose hips in the hedge. This is the way sloes really like to crop: ie on an untrimmed bit of hedge. If you want your own pine nuts to eat, this is the tree: the Stone Pine, sometimes known as the Umbrella Pine because of its growth habit. The books claim they don't grow and crop well in this country, but ours do. I'll take the lowest ring of branches off this one when I get round to it this autumn, so that the spreading top gets to be on a bit of a pedestal, and the tractors and combine will be able to get underneath the canopy. BTW, the hedge underneath is what I meant by neatly trimmed: it does have a bit of myrabalan and a bit of blackthorn in it, but very little flower or fruit except on the stems I've allowed to grow up as standards. Mrs RGSP watching butterflies on the Buddleia (which BTW was cut down to less than a foot tall in late spring). Cherry plums, myrabalans, prunus cerasifera fruit, whatever you like to call them, but these ones just taste of sugary water. Ornamental crabs in the hedge between our drive and the field by the lambing yard. These ones are particularly well coloured and flavoured, and have very little core when turning them into spiced crabs (an excellent chutney substitute BTW). However, the birds like them too, and they rarely stay on the tree beyond the middle of September Water hawthorn in flower, in Mrs RGSP's new birthday water trough. It also has a small water lily in it, and a couple of goldfish, but the fish won't let themselves be photographed, and the water lily only has one small leaf on the surface as yet. These rather stylish flowers are "Acidantheras" according to Mrs RGSP. They come on long stems above groups of flag-iris-like leaves, only narrower. These ones are growing from bulbs put into pots last winter, and my photograph really doesn't do them justice. On warm, still evenings they're VERY heavily scented, with a lovely scent which is fantastic out of doors, but I think would be a bit too much of a good thing indoors.
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Post by Joyce on Aug 25, 2013 17:48:19 GMT
My mouth is watering, Rgsp I planted some Acidantheras in pots in the spring, but only foliage so far.... wonder if they weren't in long enough? Won't be chucked anyway.
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Post by rgsp on Aug 25, 2013 17:52:31 GMT
My mouth is watering, Rgsp :) I planted some Acidantheras in pots in the spring, but only foliage so far.... wonder if they weren't in long enough? Won't be chucked anyway. Ours only came out a couple of weeks ago, having had tall, strong foliage for ages. Maybe yours will flower quite soon, and do remember to go out and sniff near them on a warm evening if they do!
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Post by Joyce on Aug 29, 2013 8:22:09 GMT
Busy bees - OH's photo
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Post by 4wd on Sept 1, 2013 15:58:49 GMT
This afternoon - Rosedale Chimney Bank Ford Anglia made it up 1 in 3 but this red sports car fried the clutch and had to go the long way around! snap On the way home - Danby Castle hosts weddings. The road to it is very narrow and windy for this monstrosity!
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