Here are the photographs of our garden in December and over Christmas. The first photos are of the garden and the vegetable patch, still fairly colourful even in the depths of winter.
I've also included the new chicken roof. The original one, coated in roof seal to protect it from the weather, was slowly chewed by wasps over the last two summers. Wasps chew it up and pulp it and they'd had a good go at the roof so it was leaking water in places. This is no good for the chickens, they need a secure, well ventilated but draught and waterproof lodgings so Luke replaced the old marine ply roof with a new piece and coated it with roofing felt to protect it further. (the white flash you can see in the house is red spider mite repellent powder). The gritty roofing felt should keep the pesky wasps away!
We also had a mishap with the greenhouse when the door, not securely shut, blew open in windy weather and smashed two panes of glass, the photograph of the horizontal bit really looks like an accident waiting to happen, I think.
Our Christmas walk to the beach took in some pretty hedgerows; here some lichen covered branch looks as old as time itself whilst the pink buds (I don't know what they are) lend a cheery note.
Ending with a little finch feeding on the peanuts.
I've also included the new chicken roof. The original one, coated in roof seal to protect it from the weather, was slowly chewed by wasps over the last two summers. Wasps chew it up and pulp it and they'd had a good go at the roof so it was leaking water in places. This is no good for the chickens, they need a secure, well ventilated but draught and waterproof lodgings so Luke replaced the old marine ply roof with a new piece and coated it with roofing felt to protect it further. (the white flash you can see in the house is red spider mite repellent powder). The gritty roofing felt should keep the pesky wasps away!
We also had a mishap with the greenhouse when the door, not securely shut, blew open in windy weather and smashed two panes of glass, the photograph of the horizontal bit really looks like an accident waiting to happen, I think.
Our Christmas walk to the beach took in some pretty hedgerows; here some lichen covered branch looks as old as time itself whilst the pink buds (I don't know what they are) lend a cheery note.
Ending with a little finch feeding on the peanuts.
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