The last
few summer day’s are gone, and the autumn with the cold and windy day’s has
arrived. We’ve got some rain in the last week but the well is still dry…. Lucky
to us have we a nice neighbour were we can go and get some water from his well.
His house stands about a 500m from us and lays closer to the lake. He has a
1/2m water left in his well. So every day we load our wheelbarrow with empty jerry
cans, go to the neighbour, fill them all and go homewards again. It is a little
more work but the animals need water, a lot of water, only our big work pony
needs about a 30L each day!
For the
vegetable garden wasn’t it that bad that is was dry, the beans need a dry
period at the end of the season. We got a big harvest this year! A lots of
kidney beans and French beans, 180kg potatoes, lots of parsnips and carrots, sweet
corn, tomatoes, lots of tomatoes!, onions, cabbage, beetroot, leek, zucchini, peas,………This
was the first year I had a poly-tunnel, and the tomatoes grows so fine in it.
Now the last tomatoes are still waiting to be made into a green tomato chutney.
I think I have had over a 15kg!
We had
broccoli for the first time this year, and they went big. The first we eat was
about a 500gr, but the second was almost 1kg! They really taste different then
the ones you buy in the store. I loved it very well, and try it again next
year.
I bought for 500SEK seeds this year and had some
seeds left from 2015, all the seeds were ecological, and after the first of
June we didn’t need to buy fresh food in the store. Except for some garlic that
I didn’t have. At this time we eat already 5 months our home grown food and we
have much more we can eat during the winter months. Now the growing seasons is
over, I can looking back on a very well seasons. We’ve got lot of fine and
healthy food.
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