Waterloo Farm: a country living blog

Planting Our First Crop of Potatoes

Nigel — Sun, 18 Apr 2010 22:33:34 +0000

Finally today we were planted our first crop of vegetables in our rabbit proof vegetable patch! How exciting is that!! Already looking forward to eating the results! We have got a number of...

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British Sugar Supplies Raised Beds Top Soil

Nigel — Sun, 18 Apr 2010 19:22:51 +0000

Having made the raised beds we now needed to fill them up, easy you might think! However, using a number of online topsoil calculators we discovered that to fill all 10 of our raised beds we would...

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Making the Raised Beds

Nigel — Thu, 08 Apr 2010 21:04:34 +0000

Having marked out the vegetable patch and sussed out that it would all fit (we even re-configured the layout to get a few more beds in) we have started to make our raised beds. Fortunately we have an...

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Laying Out the Vegetable Patch

Tammy — Tue, 06 Apr 2010 11:05:16 +0000

So, the rabbit-proof fencing has been finished and we have been making progress on the vegetable patch, hoping to plant our first crops in time for this year! I have spent more hours than I care to...

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How the Daffodils Turned Out!!

Tammy — Wed, 31 Mar 2010 10:50:43 +0000

You may recall I planted several hundred daffodil bulbs around the garden last Autumn which had been kindly donated by some friends. In particular I planted loads in our front bed (read about it...

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Laurel (Prunus laurocerasus Rotundifolia) Planting

Nigel — Fri, 26 Mar 2010 21:08:33 +0000

Following the driveway work we had done in December 2008, forming two new parking bays, we finally found an afternoon to plant the shrubs that we planned to use to cover up our neighbours garage. We...

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Romantic Candlelit Bath?

Nigel — Wed, 24 Mar 2010 18:43:56 +0000

What could be more romantic, a bath by candle light to soothe the stresses of the day away… I wish! No, the candles in our bathroom are actually the lights in our bathroom because we had the...

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The Plasterers Are Back!

Nigel — Sun, 21 Mar 2010 20:16:00 +0000

Gluttons for punishment and pushing ahead with our jobs for this year, the plasterers, Mortimer and Smith are back! We tried to be clever in the family bathroom and install some fire rated 12v...

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Carpenter and Cabinet Maker

Nigel — Fri, 19 Mar 2010 20:36:37 +0000

We have a wall in the kitchen of various trades people’s business cards. It could almost be described as a seal of approval if you exist on that wall! Many have tried to get on, some have made...

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How the View has Changed in a Year!!

Tammy — Thu, 18 Mar 2010 10:08:23 +0000

We’re approaching the first anniversary of our moving into Waterloo Farm and I was just browsing through some of the old photos. We’ve done a massive amount of work to the place since we...

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