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Allotment life @thegoodlifeainteasy and chicken-keeping

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October 24, 2017August 14, 2018

I’m Rachel. I grow vegetables and love chickens.

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Holding onto Summer, because I will really miss this extra garden room. Being in the kitchen, quietly watching the creation of potions, mud cakes and towers from afar. I’ve even come to terms with finding my favourite flowers floating in pans of water. Tiring, at times chaotic and challenging, but the very very happiest moments.

We’ve got sweetcornnnnn. 🥳 In all honesty I wasn’t sure if we’d get any this year due to being planted later than intended (as standard 🙈) and the drought. Some of the cobs are a bit small but arguably a perfect child size 😉. This variety was ‘Incredible (F1)’. Amusingly I picked it as it’s meant to be good in wetter weather after last year 🥴. Our plants definitely didn’t make it to 8ft, but it was delicious. So sweet! In the second picture you can see a full cob on the left and a shorter one on the right. And in wonderful news there was an even lovelier surprise hiding in the sweetcorn bed ➡️ Arlo’s face was 😆👌🏻. I’ll definitely do pumpkins with the corn again next year, but I do think after many years of experimenting it works best when the pumpkin has its own designated growing space further away and can weave through the corn. I’ve found if they’re too close together they fight for water as hungry plants. Anyway I’m still so delighted ☺️

Sunshine after the rain, featuring a greenhouse jungle and moulting chickens. Last year this space was all cucumbers and very little tomatoes. This year the tomatoes have been wonderful and the cucumbers a bit pathetic to be honest. They’ve perhaps needed more water, and I’m a poor quality waterer - the outdoor cucumbers have fared much better. It’s been a ridiculously good year for the chillies - I’m going to dehydrate some for storage, freeze others and find a good sweet chilli jam recipe. (A cheese baguette with sweet chilli jam is still one of my favourites). I’m hoping to give this space a good clear out tomorrow and I’m looking forward to a fresh canvas for autumn and winter ☺️ Hope Wednesday was kind, over the hump x

Such a lovely morning at the plot 🥳. The new fruit bed is nearly finished - we moved some old paving slabs for a path in the middle of the bed and a load of woodchip to mulch everything and suppress weeds. We eat so much fruit in this house that it made sense to plant another one up. This one is gooseberries, redcurrants, whitecurrants and blackcurrants, including one kindly gifted from the @ukblackcurrantfoundation. We have another space or two, so it would be nice to try something different as well. Any suggestions? 🤔 We’re losing the dahlia bed for the fruit but the tubers will all be relocated into repurposed bins and containers down the side - so hopefully it will look even more beautiful next year. (Obviously the dahlias aren’t going!) And now we can jump down the path in a deeply unflattering but incredibly happy video 😆 Success! #allotment #growfood #growwhatyoueat #homegrown

Excellent company on September evenings and ➡️ protector of the kale. (Which is a very good job as I’d be most annoyed if a hen ate it. Granted I should probably plant it at the allotment rather than leave it precariously on the steps). #mygardentoday #chickensofinstagram

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