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June 2001
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Busy time at the Kitchen Garden. Lots of visitors, though not on really sunny days - families seem to go off to the coast when the sun shines. The garden looks lovely, though having just come back from Chelsea, it all seems rather scruffy. The vegetables are growing - plus the seedlings in the cutting garden - little ribbons of greenery, all under cages to stop the hens from investigating.
The Cockerel has been excluded from the run and the hens are relaxing without him. He has been over-egging the pudding and several of his ladies are balding on the back. We have developed a new Orpington saddle to protect their flanks, now being modelled by the small crossbreed. Orpingtons have such soft feathers and the cockerels are so clumsy.
The little black broody has hatched out one Orpington chick - fingers crossed for a hen. She is such a good mum, chaperoning her baby to the best dust baths and compost heaps. Not many eggs for the kitchen, as am hoping for another broody.
The Bee man still hasn't brought the hives as promised, but has delivered lots of honey.
Good asparagus from Redgrave fen and plans for a Farmers Market at Wyken Vineyards in place for the end of June.
Books selling really well and journalists coming from Denmark and Sweden.
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The Kitchen Garden Church Lane Troston Bury St. Edmunds Suffolk IP31 1EX 01359-268322
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