October 9th-15th

October 9th-15th

The week started off with a plan to finish moving the dirt from the area next to the garage where the chicken hut will go. Once this was done we started to repair the path which had be come a mess from the work we had been doing and from the large farm vehicles that...
How to make an awesome onion bed

How to make an awesome onion bed

Step one – Find a good spot to build a raised bed approximately 6 inches high, fill it with a seaweed base (if you have access to that) Step two- fill with soil Step three- use a board on top of the soil, stand on it and stamp it to evenly press down the soil...
October 2nd & 3rd

October 2nd & 3rd

Can’t believe it is October already! Last week we had Sue come and visit the property and as we showed her around she gave us some tips and ideas. She worked at Inverewe Gardens  for many years as their head propagator and now takes tourist on garden tours...

September 27th

This evening a wonderful 4 days of amazing weather has come to an end but I think we have made the most of it. There has been a lot happening everyday and today the goal posts kept changing, being able to adjust your plans throughout the day is one of the very...
Sept 20th

Sept 20th

Finally got the digger up with some help from Yoni after a week on it’s side, this is just another example of how projects can be put back by days and weeks. Decided to give it a service to make sure it would be operating well so I changed the oil and tightened...
September 18

September 18

  The weather is key to so many jobs up here and as we were preparing the job list for the week we realised that the sun was out and the temperature was rising. The weather report was saying no rain and we have been keen to complete the painting of the roof of...
Sept 11-15

Sept 11-15

Well everyone just loves saying winter is coming and indeed it is so the time for filling the woodshed has come. This is always an ongoing project and when I come across fallen trees I cut them to manageable sizes and get them in the shed to dry and chop. So this week...
4th – 8th September

4th – 8th September

Sometime there is so much happening here we can’t even put it into sentences! Monday 8 am meeting to plan the week Both cars cleaned and washed Collected water lilies from down the road and weeded the pond for them Checked and dug out drain at the back of the...
26th-1st Sept

26th-1st Sept

We had weekend of all things horticulture with the annual Plockton District Autumn Horticulture Show so it was an early Saturday start pulling cabbages out, picking dahlias, making flower arrangements and prepping vegetables for presentation. Its was a rush to get...