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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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We’re sorry to post again, but Nutmug just realised it’s the last day to enter the @englishstamp competition, and she’d really like to be stamped on all our Christmas wrapping paper! 💕🤷🏼‍♀️ In the last month since being rescued this little hen has flourished and stolen my heart. She looks like a completely different chicken! Last Christmas she was in cages. This Christmas she’s had a lengthy conversation with a wicker reindeer and pecked at all the baubles because they were sparkly. Life is good. (She obviously needs to be a stamp to remember this happy time 💁🏼‍♀️❤️). . #merrychristmas #rescuehens #chickens #chickensofinstagram #chickensofig #exbatteryhens #chickenlife #chickenkeeping #chickensaspets #backyardchickens #homesteading #christmaspets #homesteadlife #thegoodlife #countryliving #selfsufficient #lifewithchickens #hennypenny

What a grey morning! I got up and went for some fresh air, only to be rained on 🤷🏼‍♀️ So now I’m back in bed curled up with a cup of tea, hoping some of the final bulbs find their own way into the ground. Go forth little bulbs! This year I’m slightly concerned my red cabbage might not be ready for Christmas. It’s forming heads but there could be a lot of January red cabbage in our household 😂 Next year I’ll grow all of Christmas dinner. Next year...! (Has anyone managed this? I need your timings!) 💁🏼‍♀️Happy Sunday you lovely lot ❤️ . #gardening #redcabbage #cabbage #allotment #allotmentlife #gardenchat #gardenersofinstagram #myhappyplace #greenthumb #homesteading #homesteadlife #wintergarden #lovegardening #homegrown #selfsufficient #ediblegarden #gardenersofinstagram #countryliving #thehappygardeninglife #getoutside #gardenblogger #thegoodlife

Yes, I could have eaten the beetroot tops. But I wouldn’t have squealed with delight and made large amounts of happy chatter, so sometimes four little hens win. Happy Saturday ❤️ . #exbatteryhens #animallove #lifewithchickens #chickens #rescuehens #chickensofig #chickenlife #chickensofinstagram #chickensaspets #homegrown #backyardchickens #mygarden #hens #hensofinstagram #gardengram #gardenblogger #gardenlife #thegoodlife #farmher #growyourownfood #myhappyplace

Mexican tree spinach - the brightest green and in your face pink. One I don’t intend to grow next year to eat as I make allotment plans, though based on its thuggish behaviour I probably won’t have a choice! I’m not sure why I wanted to grow it - I think I was seduced by it’s lovely colours. And oh did it grow. Once it took off there was no stopping it. I loved the height (it easily reached a metre or so), and we ate the young leaves in salads. It was also nice wilted with lashings of garlic butter - but to be honest it might look nicest in the back of our flower borders in the garden! It was quite good at stopping anything else from growing in that spot 🤷🏼‍♀️ I tried to cut it back and save seeds before it had a proper chance to self seed, but we’ll see just how many offspring I have to deal with next year 😂 Is anyone going to champion it?! #spinach #freshgreens #allotment #allotmentgarden #ediblegarden #homegrown #homegrownfood #knowwhereyourfoodcomesfrom #growfoodnotlawns #vegetablegarden #growyourownfood #growsomething #gardenblogger

Not a very pretty picture, but an important one - because today is #worldsoilday. A few years ago, it’s perhaps a day that would have passed me by - but now, in trying to grow my own food I’ve realised how important soil is, and how important it is that we protect it. I’ve seen some incredible facts today about how much we rely on it for food, but even as a gardening enthusiast I’ve come to realise how neglecting the earth has an impact. You can give a seed the best head start in life, but planted in the wrong place it’s never going to grow. Some plants need rich soil, others don’t. Some need feeding throughout the growing season - others just like to be left by themselves. Some need good drainage, others like damp feet. I’ve got a soil tester for next year which I’m going to start to take seriously. I don’t use chemicals. I pay attention to what ends up in our soil. And yes, I was pleased my bulls blood chard matched my gum boots (which have finally after years of love, split!) 💁🏼‍♀️💕 hope Wednesday is kind you lovely folk. Here ends my passionate ramblings about soil! 😂#worldsoilday2018 #organic #soil #muddyfeet #allotment #chard #allotmentlife #allotmentgarden #eatseasonal #purplepower #mygardentoday #gardeners #vegetablegarden #gardenlife #saveoursoils #gardenersofinstagram #growyourown #growwhatyoueat #growyourownfood

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